Storytelling Within Facilitation

A three day programme for facilitators exploring
fresh ways to work practically, or professionally, with stories within your facilitative practice.

Are you a restorative practitioner, researcher, facilitator, trainer, educator, space-holder, creative, support worker, mediator or workshop leader? Or simply someone who cares about the power of stories to help transform and heal?

Are you interested in using stories to support your work and the processes you take people through, and to support yourself in how you live and work by your values?

Would you like to explore skilful ways to bring metaphorical and true stories into your work, to help facilitate and hold - ?:
- Important conversations
- Meaningful reflection
- Safe spaces
- Creative practices
- Work with lived experience
- Transformational group work

These three days are an invitation for professionals to develop their practice by creatively investigating how traditional stories can support their work.

Including:
- Building up a resource kit of different stories that you could bring to different situations and challenges as a starting point for reflection and discussion
- Using traditional stories to create safe spaces for sharing personal stories, exploring lived experience and having difficult conversations
- Developing your facilitation skills with stories as methodology
- Using stories to facilitate creative and imaginative exercises for fresh thinking and new ideas - encouraging 'light bulb' moments for participants
- Techniques for how to tell stories and bring them to life effectively
- Exploring the dangers, challenges, fruits, riches, transformations, and bridge building potential that working with stories can involve

Led by storyteller, facilitator and Restorative Justice practitioner Hannah Moore.

Hannah trained with Bristol Mediation (now Resolve West), and has been a volunteer RJ facilitator and community mediator in Bristol and for Restorative Gloucestershire. Bringing together her work as a storyteller with her background in restorative practice, she regularly collaborates on CPD training programmes with the European Forum for Restorative Justice. Previous workshops and CPD programmes in the UK include courses for the RJC, the South West RJ regional network, University and Royal Borough of Greenwich, Restorative Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, Norfolk Youth Justice & Essex Youth Justice. Together with Mint House and other restorative teams around the UK, Hannah is engaged in an ongoing exploration of the significant ways in which storytelling can support restorative approaches.

COURSE DATES

18th - 20th November 2025

10:00 - 17:00

LOCATION

Hill House Retreat, Amberley, Stroud, GL5 5AL
https://www.sanctuaryhillhouse.co.uk/
Nearest station: Stroud
10 minute drive/taxi from Stroud town centre, Gloucestershire
50-minute drive from Bristol

Hill House Sanctuary is set in beautiful grounds on the edge of the beautiful Minchinhampton Common, near Stroud (Gloucestershire) with nature walks in abundance. Hill House serves as a sanctuary primarily providing retreats, workshops, away days and residential stays for forced migrants, including refugees, those seeking asylum and survivors of trafficking and torture. The charity is supported by income from external retreats like Storytelling Within Facilitation. It is a place with a deep sense of peacefulness, warmth and welcome. It's always an honour to hold events there.

COURSE FEES

£280 - Early bird before 20 Oct 2025
£360 - Standard
£320 - Low income
£90 for shared, self-catering accommodation onsite

BOOKING INFORMATION

Course information:
https://www.hannahmoore.co.uk/storytelling/workshops/storytelling-within-facilitation

CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE

CONTACT INFORMATION

Contact Name | Hannah Moore - +44 7588 201084

Email | hannahmoorestoryteller@gmail.com

Website | www.hannahmoore.co.uk

This course is being hosted by an RJC member organisation. It is not delivered by, or on behalf of, the RJC. The RJC has not assessed and is not responsible for the quality of the course content