An online evening course over 4 weeks.
In the same way a silversmith must learn the nature of silver and a carpenter must learn the nature of wood, a storyteller must learn the nature of stories.
How do they work and how can we work with them?
Shonaleigh inherited an approach to storytelling from her Bubbe (Grandmother) referred to as the Midrash or Drash.
At the heart of this approach is learning how narrative and story work, enabling the teller to engage deeply with the story to bring it into being for a listener or reader.
Shonaleigh teaches the Drash through an MA course and an intensive 4 week programme called Wildwoods.
Strolling by the Wildwoods is an online introduction to the Wildwoods intensive, giving you a glimpse into some of the exercises, approaches and relationships with story that are built through this brilliant approach to narrative.
Through these 4 weeks you will meet the Midrash, explore how a story can be approached and given depth as well as hone your language skills to use your words in service to the story you are telling.
There will be space for questions, explorations and wandering through the Wildwoods to see what story magic is hidden between the trees.
Course overview:
- Week 1: Meet the Midrash
This week you will be introduced to the Midrash – the method Drut’sylas used to understand the nature of the story they are working with – and begin to learn the nature of the mysterious stuff-we-call-story. We will explore story through Midrash 1, looking at story arc and plot.
- Week 2: Inhabiting the senses
This session will give you some tools to open up to the world of story through the five senses. We will work into a story in this way and begin to develop a fuller, multi-dimensional relationship to a narrative.
- Week 3: All the Ps
This session looks at the four Ps – pitch, pace, plot and pause – and using techniques from Midrash 4 polish our language skills
- Week 4: Putting it all together
The final week of the course will be about mixing it up and letting it go. We will combine the ingredients we have collected and see what story magic we can cook up after our time together.
This cours runs on Wednesday evenings on Zoom at 7.30pm GMT on the 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th November.
Sessions will not be recorded, you will need to attend live.