Last Call: Speaking With True Tongues
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chelidonWe've got 4 spots left in the January workshop, in case anybody wants to jump in now. There are some good flight deals after the holidays, too... By way of recommendation for those who don't already know her, Crow (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
morrigandaughtr) is a skillful teacher, a very talented published writer, and a really lovely person, and as far as the topic goes, she's incredibly dedicated to her art, and offers a great combination of juicy magickal practice and nitty-gritty tips, exercises and techniques. Great stuff for anyone who is a writer, storyteller, public speaker (or teacher), or just is trying to find their own voice and figure out what they need and want to be saying out in the world. And Claudia Manifest's cooking just rocks, and I figure one could do far worse than to spend a long weekend in the midst of a sparkling winter wonderland, sitting inside a warm toasty house, in front of a fireplace, soaking in a hot tub inside a greenhouse, eating good food, chatting working and playing with a bunch of fellow writers, storytellers, artists and other interesting magickal folk. Come join us!
Speaking With True Tongues
a weekend workshop of Sacred Storytelling
with Chelidon and Crow of Tejas
Friday evening, January 18 - Monday, January 21, 2008
For more information or to get a registration form, please contact Chelidon at chelidon@mythosphere.com.
What would it be like to speak with the tongue of truth, to tell our stories -- the stories which want to be told, and which need to be told, right here and right now?
Storytelling, through written word, spoken tale, song, music, dance, drumming, drama, or any other form, is a deep and sacred calling. Storytellers are truthtellers, and the world needs a solid dose of truth. There are Human, Faery, and Ancestor stories -- among others -- that all need to be told and heard, in order that their magick might enter and change this world and all the worlds. Which stories are yours to tell?
True words have awesome magickal force. Fairy tales, whether or not literally true, teach us exquisitely true things about all the worlds. At the other extreme, oral historians in ages past could be put to death for telling false tales about the history of the people, because it was recognized that they held the power to literally change history. The satirical and magickal stories told by bard and druid were feared even by king and nobles, for skillful words had the power to not only humiliate and harm in this life, but ensure the living death of someone's reputation for countless generations to come.
We have all been touched, and changed, by stories, and we have all seen stories work their life-changing magick in the world. The right story, told at the right time, in the right way, can accomplish more than gold, armies, politicians or kings ever can. Stories are vital, primal seeds of change, with the insistent, juicy potential to crack through bland barriers of the usual and grow out into the world, spreading transformation. Stories create the worlds we live in. Stories can heal us, and they can heal the world.
In this workshop, we will call upon and work deeply and intimately with the storytellers, those ancestors of blood and inspiration, and with our own deep sources of truth, wherever and whatever they may be. Who and what are our own wellsprings of deep inspiration, and how can we drink deep? How do we open to that quiet, still place where we can hear the voices of the ancestors and Mysterious Ones, as well as listening to our own inner voices? How can we find the true stories that want to work their way out into the world at this time and place?
Although we will focus on the written word, you do not have to consider yourself a good writer -- or even a writer at all -- to come and to get value from this class. All that you need is a passion for the telling of those tales that need to be told, and of speaking with a true tongue. We all have stories to tell, and we all hold truths which must be spoken. If you hear the whisper or roar of tales which are calling on you to be told, come and join us in this sacred work and play.
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Chelidon is a writer and storyteller with a deep and abiding love for the skills of voice, tale, song, chant and rhythm. He has been writing professionally, and teaching Reclaiming camps and classes for more than ten years, and has been telling tales as a magickal practitioner and activist for many years more.
This Crow hails from the lush bayous and concrete-and-steel canyons of the Texas Gulf Coast. She is a storyteller via the craft of professional fiction writing, and her fiction may be found in many magazines and anthologies. She has taught Reclaiming classes in Houston, and at Tejas and Midwest Witch Camps. She works in magickal partnership with the Fae, the Ancestors, the Gods, and her harps to name, transform, and heal demons and shadow through the power of story.
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Times:
Friday evening, January 18 -- 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Saturday, January 19 -- 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday, January 20 -- 10 AM to 6 PM
Monday, January 21 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) -- 9 AM to 12 Noon
Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to settle in. The workshop will begin promptly at the scheduled times.
This workshop will be drug- and alcohol-free, but because the main house is also a residence, after workshop hours it is possible alcohol could be present in common areas. If you wish to attend and this would be a problem for you, please let us know.
Contact: For more information or to get a registration form, please contact Chelidon at chelidon@mythosphere.com or 603.863.8393.
Cost: Sliding scale is $125 - $175. You decide where you slide, please slide on up if you possibly can to help keep it affordable for all. Cost includes three nights dorm-style lodging (Fri-Sun), snacks on Friday night, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday, and breakfast/brunch on Monday.
Facilities:
The event will he held at the Hermitage, Claudia and Chelidon's 20 acres of wooded land in New Hampshire (easy transport from Manchester, NH and Boston Logan airports, Amtrak and via bus service), surrounded by many thousands of acres of hikeable woods. The site is dedicated to minimizing our carbon footprint and fostering sustainable living while providing a comfortable and restorative space for all, and all primary heat is via carbon-neutral local renewable wood sources, with solar and microhydro projects in the planning stages.
During off times we invite you to wander the woods and streams, read in the common rooms, sit by the fireplace in the house or the wood stove in the barn, drum, sing and play music, or soak in the hot tub in the greenhouse. Sleeping arrangements are dorm style. Houses have cats, but the barn/dorm space is cat free. All participants will have access at all times to the showers and common spaces of the main house and most classwork will occur in the main house.
morrigandaughtr) is a skillful teacher, a very talented published writer, and a really lovely person, and as far as the topic goes, she's incredibly dedicated to her art, and offers a great combination of juicy magickal practice and nitty-gritty tips, exercises and techniques. Great stuff for anyone who is a writer, storyteller, public speaker (or teacher), or just is trying to find their own voice and figure out what they need and want to be saying out in the world. And Claudia Manifest's cooking just rocks, and I figure one could do far worse than to spend a long weekend in the midst of a sparkling winter wonderland, sitting inside a warm toasty house, in front of a fireplace, soaking in a hot tub inside a greenhouse, eating good food, chatting working and playing with a bunch of fellow writers, storytellers, artists and other interesting magickal folk. Come join us!Speaking With True Tongues
a weekend workshop of Sacred Storytelling
with Chelidon and Crow of Tejas
Friday evening, January 18 - Monday, January 21, 2008
For more information or to get a registration form, please contact Chelidon at chelidon@mythosphere.com.
What would it be like to speak with the tongue of truth, to tell our stories -- the stories which want to be told, and which need to be told, right here and right now?
Storytelling, through written word, spoken tale, song, music, dance, drumming, drama, or any other form, is a deep and sacred calling. Storytellers are truthtellers, and the world needs a solid dose of truth. There are Human, Faery, and Ancestor stories -- among others -- that all need to be told and heard, in order that their magick might enter and change this world and all the worlds. Which stories are yours to tell?
True words have awesome magickal force. Fairy tales, whether or not literally true, teach us exquisitely true things about all the worlds. At the other extreme, oral historians in ages past could be put to death for telling false tales about the history of the people, because it was recognized that they held the power to literally change history. The satirical and magickal stories told by bard and druid were feared even by king and nobles, for skillful words had the power to not only humiliate and harm in this life, but ensure the living death of someone's reputation for countless generations to come.
We have all been touched, and changed, by stories, and we have all seen stories work their life-changing magick in the world. The right story, told at the right time, in the right way, can accomplish more than gold, armies, politicians or kings ever can. Stories are vital, primal seeds of change, with the insistent, juicy potential to crack through bland barriers of the usual and grow out into the world, spreading transformation. Stories create the worlds we live in. Stories can heal us, and they can heal the world.
In this workshop, we will call upon and work deeply and intimately with the storytellers, those ancestors of blood and inspiration, and with our own deep sources of truth, wherever and whatever they may be. Who and what are our own wellsprings of deep inspiration, and how can we drink deep? How do we open to that quiet, still place where we can hear the voices of the ancestors and Mysterious Ones, as well as listening to our own inner voices? How can we find the true stories that want to work their way out into the world at this time and place?
Although we will focus on the written word, you do not have to consider yourself a good writer -- or even a writer at all -- to come and to get value from this class. All that you need is a passion for the telling of those tales that need to be told, and of speaking with a true tongue. We all have stories to tell, and we all hold truths which must be spoken. If you hear the whisper or roar of tales which are calling on you to be told, come and join us in this sacred work and play.
*******
Chelidon is a writer and storyteller with a deep and abiding love for the skills of voice, tale, song, chant and rhythm. He has been writing professionally, and teaching Reclaiming camps and classes for more than ten years, and has been telling tales as a magickal practitioner and activist for many years more.
This Crow hails from the lush bayous and concrete-and-steel canyons of the Texas Gulf Coast. She is a storyteller via the craft of professional fiction writing, and her fiction may be found in many magazines and anthologies. She has taught Reclaiming classes in Houston, and at Tejas and Midwest Witch Camps. She works in magickal partnership with the Fae, the Ancestors, the Gods, and her harps to name, transform, and heal demons and shadow through the power of story.
*******
Times:
Friday evening, January 18 -- 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Saturday, January 19 -- 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday, January 20 -- 10 AM to 6 PM
Monday, January 21 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) -- 9 AM to 12 Noon
Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to settle in. The workshop will begin promptly at the scheduled times.
This workshop will be drug- and alcohol-free, but because the main house is also a residence, after workshop hours it is possible alcohol could be present in common areas. If you wish to attend and this would be a problem for you, please let us know.
Contact: For more information or to get a registration form, please contact Chelidon at chelidon@mythosphere.com or 603.863.8393.
Cost: Sliding scale is $125 - $175. You decide where you slide, please slide on up if you possibly can to help keep it affordable for all. Cost includes three nights dorm-style lodging (Fri-Sun), snacks on Friday night, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday, and breakfast/brunch on Monday.
Facilities:
The event will he held at the Hermitage, Claudia and Chelidon's 20 acres of wooded land in New Hampshire (easy transport from Manchester, NH and Boston Logan airports, Amtrak and via bus service), surrounded by many thousands of acres of hikeable woods. The site is dedicated to minimizing our carbon footprint and fostering sustainable living while providing a comfortable and restorative space for all, and all primary heat is via carbon-neutral local renewable wood sources, with solar and microhydro projects in the planning stages.
During off times we invite you to wander the woods and streams, read in the common rooms, sit by the fireplace in the house or the wood stove in the barn, drum, sing and play music, or soak in the hot tub in the greenhouse. Sleeping arrangements are dorm style. Houses have cats, but the barn/dorm space is cat free. All participants will have access at all times to the showers and common spaces of the main house and most classwork will occur in the main house.
