1. The power of storytelling ALI Coach Gathering
Monday, October 20, :00-4:30
Annabelle Nelson, Ph.D. Professor Fielding Graduate University

2. Agenda 2:00-2:15 Welcome & Story
2:15-2:30 Dyads-My Favorite Story & Archetype
2:30-2:45 Power of Archetypes
2:45-3:00 Improv Story
3:00-3:15 Structure of Story
3:00-4:00 Coaching Technique
1. Test & Emotion in Body
2. Imagery Exercise for Archetype
3. Story Work Sheet
4. Tell a Story
4:00-4:15 Applications
4:15-4:30 Q & A

3. Goals
Share information on storytelling for insight, psychological growth and emotional clearing.
Create experiences of storytelling.
Showcase a storytelling protocol to use for coaching.

4. Early Memory of an Story
Think back, think back, when someone was telling or reading you a story, an experience you really liked, where were you, who was with you, any noticeable perceptual details?
Which character did you like, which character captured your imagination? Any color you associate with the color, and noticeable characteristics?

5. What is storytelling An oral account
Cultural stories are ancient human technology
1. The coherence in one’s life from the past and the hope in one’s life for the
future.
2. The awareness that adversity will come in life.
3. The ability to laugh at pitfalls
4. Beliefs.
5. How to stay safe.
6. Identification with a group or tribe.
7.Positive character traits
8. How to withstand negative forces and to overcome adversity.
9. Acceptance of one’s role or destiny in life.

6. Storytelling in your Practice
Humans are natural storytellers to communicate and make sense of their lives.
Stories move humans into liminal spaces tapping into the collective unconscious of human patterns.
What’s an example of storytelling in your practice?

7. Telling Stories & Listening Stories
Helps humans identify with an archetype which naturally propels human towards conscious awareness.

8. Storytelling & Human Development
Human development includes spiritual awareness and emotional health
End goal = conscious awareness, need to clear channel between conscious mind and spiritual Self in unconscious
Unconscious becomes conscious & conscious becomes unconscious
As this happens shadow material and repressed emotional issues and karma released

9. Benefits of Archetype Focus
Teaching an inner focus over times helps establish ego integrity by allowing emotional material to clear
Jerome Kagan- interindividual stage
Erik Erikson- generativity

10. Archetype Allows Unconscious to open

11. Epistemological Assumptions
There is a creative force in the unconscious that can lead humans to emotional healing and growth.
The language of the unconscious is metaphoric and imagistic.
Aligning with an archetype or energy patterns can “hold” the unconscious open in a safe manner, releasing emotional material: release emotions & receive insights from intuition
Stories contain human wisdom and the characters and symbols can resonate in the individual unconscious to activate the creative force.

12. Improv a Story

13. Storytelling Cycle: The Stages

14. Coaching Technique: Find a test
Think back to a time in the last 12 months or so to a particularly difficult event, possibly termed a “test”. Where were you? What was happening? Who were you with?
Imagine as if it was happening right now in your mind’s eye. What colors do you remember?
Then speed time a bit and imagine yourself several months past this event. What happened? How did you face this? Were there any helpers?
Tell your partner about it. (Narrative prompt,
“Tell me about…..).

15. Imagery of an Archetype

16. Tests & Storytelling

17. Tell your story

18. Summing up & Close
What to take away, how to apply?

19. Jessica Kingsley Ltd Publisher, London
Coming soon
 Archetype Imagination: Coaching and Therapy for Spiritual Wisdom
by Annabelle Nelson
Coming 2014
Jessica Kingsley Ltd Publisher, London

20. references
Cajete, G.A. (1994). Look to the mountain: an ecology of indigenous education. Skyland, NC: Kivaki Press
Campbell, J. (1972). The hero with a thousand faces. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Houston, J. (2000). Myths of the future. The Humanistic Psychologist. 28 (1-3),
Mellon, N. (1992). Storytelling and the art of imagination. Rockport, MA: Element, Inc.
Nelson, A. (2009). Storytelling and transformative learning. In Learning Space, Cultural Diversity and the Performing Art: New Dimensions in Transformative Education. Ed. B. Fisher-Yoshida, K.D. Geller & S. Schapiro. New York: Peter Lang.
Nelson, A. (2007).The spacious mind: using archetypes for transformation towards Wisdom. The Humanistic Psychologist.35,
Tafoya, T. (1982). Coyote’s eyes: Native cognition styles. Journal of American Indian Education, 11, 21–33.
Von Franz, M.-L. (1996). The interpretation of fairy tales. Boston: Shambhala.