6.30-8.30pm Friday 12 November 2010 at Re-Vision, 97, Brondesbury Road, London
In this lecture Alida will explore the dynamics of giving, receiving or responding to a warning in traditional stories. She will  do so by drawing on myths and tales, such Anansi, Raven, Orpheus and the Maiden with the Wooden Bowl. She will use these stories from different cultures to clarify the ecological, social, and intrapsychic effects of a story-character’s relationship with forewarnings. Throughout Alida will draw on her clinical and community-based work with multiply traumatized children and adults to discuss why, how and when creative-expressive processes enable these clients to surmount both a slowness to believe a warning and its accompanying reluctance to act.
Alida Gersie Ph.D. is a dramatherapist/supervisor, workshop-leader and organisational consultant in private practice. Since the 1970s she has specialised in the uses of story to facilitate beneficial change in distressed individuals, institutions and communities. Until 2000 she directed the Postgraduate Arts Therapies Programme at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research and writings focus on change-oriented story-work. Throughout her work the principles of sustain-ability have been of important concern. She is the author of acclaimed and translated books, including Storymaking in Education and Therapy (with Nancy King), Storymaking in Bereavement, Reflections on Therapeutic Storymaking: the use of stories in groups and Earthtales, storytelling in times of change.
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