STORYKNOWING WITH ADOLESCENTS
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A typical storytelling workshop with adolescents

I wrote and first performed this 'meta-narrative' of the key moments and questions that arise during one of my workshops with young people at the studio talk 'Narrative and Adolescence' at York Theatre Royal, March 2014.  

It therefore represents my thinking and challenges at an early stage of my practice-as-research.  Some of these questions have now found provisional answers; others have been replaced by new questions.  Yet this 'meta-narrative' continues to give a useful idea of my storytelling practice with adolescents.  It also reminds me not to become complacent: have I, for example, become less attuned to the eloquent, awful, hanging silence at the end of a story? 

This piece typifies for me Orr et al's (2010) observation that reflective writing is a practice in itself; there is no clear division between artistic expression and sense-making, moments of artistic practice and writing.  

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  • Welcome
  • Home
  • PaR Settings
    • City School
    • Maple House
    • Acting Up!
    • Project J
    • Global Youth Club
    • Kitchen School
    • TICO
    • Holiday storytelling courses
    • Informal mentoring
  • Stories of practice
    • Layering stories at City School
    • Pushing it too far at Maple House
    • 'Meaty stories' at Acting Up!
    • The arresting strangeness of Wormwood
    • It's not about the story at Maple House
    • No space for stories at City School
  • Dissemination
    • Research outputs
    • Festival and Symposium
  • Blog posts and links
  • Contact