Clare Coburn – Transforming our personal culture through the power of story
Workshop Title:
Transforming our personal culture through the power of story
Workshop Description:
Learning to tell imaginative stories that relate to our own experience is a potent activity. In this highly interactive session, participants will be encouraged to examine their inner culture, their personal culture—‘how your self relates to your Self’ in the words of Otto Scharmer. Entering the realm of creative feeling and working with image, metaphor and story is a potent way to heal and nourish our selves by letting them communicate easily with our Selves. We will investigate our personal culture and current challenges through metaphor and create an individual transformation story to take home with us.
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
Participants will leave with an understanding of ‘creative feeling’ as a way to work with our inner culture. They will experience and write/tell a story of transformation and create metaphors that relate to their own and others’ experiences.
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
I’m a strong believer that we need to start with our selves before we begin to support others. Our personal culture or our way of operating in the world is a significant part of what we offer to others. Where are our own obstacles? Where do we get in the way of what we want to offer? From personal and professional experience, I have seen the power of imaginative story to help shift, transform and open new aspects of our inner culture and ripple out into our work and lives.
About the Workshop Presenter:
Clare Coburn had over twenty different jobs and work roles before she listened to the deeper story, changed her inner and outer cultures, and began to offer soul support. It’s her way of guiding people to emerge creatively from emotional stuckness. Along the way, training and practice in storytelling, conflict resolution, Steiner education, speech and language, a host of different corporate and professional roles and a PhD on listening as well as lots of personal stuckness offered her the signposts, skills and capacities that help her respond sensitively as well as with warmth and humour to the soul and spiritual dilemmas of others. She relies on our innate wisdom, creative imagination and the use of story, metaphor and image as vital supports to her work.
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