Storytellers' Meetup & Book Club

A Gatherings for Storytellers : Those Lovers of Folklore, Myth, Fairy Tales, and Legends that hold interest in hearing and telling stories. Every month we will meet at a coffee shop or Library across the valley for the 2 hours (+ as necessary) to discuss a book of our choosing or telling and exploring a story we connect with. With further planning towards Hosting and Tending to community events.

Further details on our intent, Facilitator’s notes, and “Why Story” below…

Intent : As a collective, we will be intentional in our Storytelling Practices - in both giving and receiving as a way to Empower your Public Speaking skills (yet not required). These practices link us back into the Participation of our very First Cultural Exchanges; Diving into meanings within the broad scheme of culture to the honed perspective of identity. Stories are an essential component to Human Behavior, resting in our original animal body. Our connection to one another, through story roots us back to the deep essence of our psyche/DNA.
*This may sound deep and profound, yet working to assist you, Dear Reader, the intent of which we are meeting with these stories. Branching from the lighthearted to the encouraging to the emotional at our own discretion. We meet each other, as well as the stories, with what we need. These are tools of Healing and Medicine.

Imagery and Functionality : As these Stories are also tools to fuel the imagination, it is incredibly likely that if this gauges your interest you are an artist as well. Do bring your art supplies (with consideration to the meeting space) in the instance an artistic vision arrives.

Why Myth & Folklore : Stories ask us to move. Removing the stagnant shell of our anxieties and hopeful weariness. Stories ask of us to be planted in the time and place of your Belonging. For stories, when told, act as an arrow that pierces our own lives. They are medicine; prescriptions for our place, strengthening the voices of our time. These particular stories bring back to the surface of the mind, the heart, and the spirit - ancestraly known, yet forgotten ways of living in The World around us. We are here to bring you back into this here & now - as myth and folklore is always alive around us. Stories are active every day. They are guides and tools for how to call and receive in times of crisis with a relationship to yourself, each other, and the Earth.

Clarification for Attendees : As each of us have our own storytelling modalities, it is up to us to respect each other’s chosen methods. Any storyteller must be faithful to holding space for the group and attend to other storytellers' needs for support. You don’t have to be an experienced storyteller, just be interested in storytelling and have the spirit of the event. If you don’t understand the nature of myth/folklore - all good, just need to be on the same page and be able to hold the right space for the community and its care.