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  • Ethics and Storytelling

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    Working group to determine code of ethics for transformational storytellers. By invitation only.

    Free

  • Practice

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    For advanced students who will be storytelling at the retreat. Intro students are invited to attend.

  • Practical Storytelling

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    A session on the practicalities of storytelling. Students tell and critique their stories...

  • Practical Storytelling

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    A session on the practicalities of storytelling. Students tell and critique their stories...

  • Wrestling with Spiritual Stories

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    When told properly, spiritual stories challenge our accepted secular experiences. We will look at the ways that spiritual storytelling operates, and its effect on the listener, the teller, and the story.

  • Mussar / Ethics

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    With guest ethicist Maggidah Rabbi Devorah Smith, we will highlight the ethical standards required of maggidut - Transformational Storytelling.

  • Stories in Talmud

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    The Talmud is more than just the expanded set of laws and procedures developed to maintain post-Temple Judaism: it is rich with aggadot - lessons in story form. We will explore the most famous of these.

  • Jewish Folklore

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    Judaism has a rich folklore from around the world. Folktales from places other than Eastern Europe are explored.

  • Telling Stories

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    A storyteller doesn't read stories, nor recite from memory, but adapts the telling to each audience. The first techniques of truly telling stories are learned here.

  • Persuasive Storytelling

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    Transformational storytelling is much more than telling folk tales; it is about enabling and encouraging change. The intersection between transformational and persuasive storytelling is explored.