Empowered Storytelling with Jon Young
8-part online course on Fridays
A Journey to emerge the power of our personal stories while empowering the Place of the Storyteller within each of us.
In this course, we will go beyond the basic structure and flow of how to tell a story, and move into the 'how' of empowering our stories.
Let's explore together the experience of 'conveyance', and how to embody Story as a place that others can step into and become part of .
Course Outline:
14th Oct, 11:30am-1pm : Intention
21st Oct, 11:30am-1pm : Setting: Remembering your Story
4th Nov, 11:30am-1pm : Plot and Character Development: Engaging your Audience
11th Nov, 12:30pm-2pm : Climax and Message : Listening to the Listener
18th Nov, 12:30pm-2pm : Body Language: Employing Mirror Neurons
2nd Dec, 12:30pm-2pm : The Stage: Gathering your audience
9th Dec, 12:30pm-2pm : Backstage: Support from Ancestors, Spirit and Nature
16th Dec, 12:30pm-2pm : Conveyance
(All Fridays. Times all in AEDT, Melbourne/Sydney time)
When you click on the link to register you’ll find the class times are listed in Los Angeles time as Wednesdays at 11:30am PT (cohort 1) and Thursdays at 5:30pm PT (cohort 2) . Cohort 1 is therefore at 5:30am for us in Australia so we imagine most people will want to join cohort 2 for the live calls. The content of the cohorts will be very similar and participants will have access to both sets of recordings.
There was a free webinar last week to introduce the themes of the course. The recording is available here.
More Details:
This is an 8 week course spread over 10 ten weeks. Each week, the two live online sessions will cover the same material, so you will choose one live session to attend per week. We will break out into smaller groups during the live sessions, so everyone can practice the material we are sharing. The live sessions will be recorded and available on the course site (break out rooms are never recorded). The course site will provide bullet points on the live sessions, added content to deepen your experience, and the opportunity for discussions with other storytellers.
Instructors
Jon Young
Lead Instructor
Jon Young is a deep nature-people-self connection researcher, mentor, naturalist, wildlife tracker, author, workshop leader, consultant, sought after public speaker and storyteller. Jon has been mentored in deep nature connection by his own grandmothers, Tom Brown, Jr. and a host of elders and experts. As a leader in the field of nature-based community building over 30 years, Jon’s research into the impact and significance of nature on mentoring, human intelligence, spiritually, well-being and development has influenced tens of thousands of people worldwide. Jon has authored and co-authored several seminal works on nature connection and connection mentoring, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), and Coyote's Guide to Connecting to Nature (2007). Jon has appeared in numerous documentaries including The Animal Communicator (2012). In 2016, he received the Champion of Environmental Education Award for his innovative work, which has inspired positive developments in the field, and fostered the growth of the nature connection movement on a global level. Jon is a father of six children, and lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with his partner, Sarah.
Sarah Fontaine
Instructor
Sarah is a energywork practitioner, bodyworker, wildlife tracker, and interspecies communicator. She has studied wildlife tracking through Shikari Tracker Mentoring with Jon Young and Josh Lane, Tom Brown Jr’s Tracker School, and Cybertracker Conservation. She is a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training Program and studied Interspecies Communication with Anna Breytenbach and Wynter Worsthorne. For over 19 years, Sarah has been practicing various healing modalities including Chakra-work, Craniosacral Therapy, Meridian Therapy, Qi Gong, Emotional Clearing, and Five Elements Herbalism. She currently offers Earth-based energywork sessions, and lives in the sandhill mountains near Santa Cruz, CA with her partner Jon.
Nate Summers
Instructor
Nate Summers has been a student of, practitioner of, and teacher of Qigong, Chinese Medicine, Internal Martial Arts and Natural Healing Arts for over two decades. He is the author of Primal: Why We Long to Be Wild and Free and Awakening Fire: The Essential Guide to Flame, Ignition, and Wood. Nate has served as a faculty member at the Wilderness Awareness School, the Desert Institute of Healing Arts, and the Asian Institute of Medical Studies. Nate has taught survival skills, ethnobotany, herbal medicine and natural movement to people all over the country and all over the world. He specializes in helping people move like animals, travel invisibly, and turn themselves into forest ninjas.
Jon, Sarah and Nate will also be joined by special guests
Miles Holmes-anthropologist and Australian Aboriginal land advocate
Carmen and Matt Corradino-ancestral skills experts, Tracker school experts, and founders of Caribbean Earth Skills
Shore Charnoe-Ceremonialist, healer, and storytelling elder from Canada. Founder of Circle of Change.
Summer Linnea Howe-founder of Nature in the Nest preschool. Early childhood development specialist.
Step in to your Place as a Storyteller
Price: $247 USD before Tues 11th 6pm (AEDT)
$297USD afterwards
To get the $50USD Early Bird discount use coupon code 50offEmpoweredStorytelling at checkout