The Magic of Storytelling for Connection and Community
- stories that connect, moments that matter
YOU CANNOT USE A FO-AARHUS DISCOUNT CODE FOR THIS WORKSHOP.
This 2-day workshop is for anyone who works with words and people - teachers, performers, presenters, facilitators, priests, activists, or community leaders - this workshop offers a deeply practical and inspiring resource: the timeless craft of oral storytelling.
At its heart is the enduring art of traditional story - rooted in folk wisdom, rich with metaphor, and alive with possibility. Long before microphones and media, stories shaped culture, passed on knowledge, and connected people across generations. Today, they offer a powerful way to reconnect - with ourselves, with each other, and with the emergent aliveness between us.
Over the weekend, you will be introduced to seven key principles of storytelling to support your practice:
- How to find the stories you love to tell.
Discover tales that resonate with your own voice, values, and experience.
- How to prepare a story so it carries depth and meaning.
Learn to work with imagery, rhythm, and emotional truth so your telling feels alive
and layered.
- How to hold space between words.
Explore the power of silence, timing, and presence in creating emotional resonance.
- How to flow with your listeners.
Tune in, adapt in the moment, and shape the story through shared attention.
- How to enter the world of the story and let it speak through you.
Work with imagination, embodiment, and spontaneity to bring stories alive.
- How to honour the roots of a story while making it your own.
Stay true to the heart of a tale while adapting it respectfully for your context.
- How to adapt stories to different settings and audiences.
Use storytelling to support group facilitation, rituals, teaching, and celebration -from intimate conversations to public gatherings.
Together, we will explore how storytelling can enrich all kinds of shared moments. Whether you are holding a classroom, leading a ritual, teaching children, facilitating a retreat, or simply speaking to friends around a fire - stories help mark transitions, deepen relationships, and build shared meaning. You will discover how folk tales can be woven into contemporary life in ways that feel joyful, nourishing, and real.
You will be guided by an experienced traditional storyteller and group facilitator. Over two days, you will:
- hear many stories you can take away and tell immediately.
- learn how to tell folktales so they resonate today.
This workshop is for anyone who works with people - teachers, performers, facilitators, creatives, community leaders, retreat hosts, and the story-curious.
Teacher: Angela Halvorsen Bogo
Angela is a storyteller, ritual artist, and facilitator of transformational spaces. With over 35 years of experience weaving together oral tradition, clown, embodied play and mindfulness, Angela brings rare depth and lightness to her work. She draws from a well of folk tales, after she was apprenticed to Master Indigenous Storyteller, Duncan Williamson, in Scotland. She lived in a Celtic Monastery for six years, leading a nationwide storytelling project. She has worked in festivals, schools, theatres, spiritual communities, organisations and health care. She creates spaces where story becomes ceremony, laughter opens the heart, and the ancient art of the storyteller is remembered as guidance, healing and the way to the in-between.
Read more about Angela here
Read more about the Transformational Play here
NB: When registering for this workshop, please note that the wording "Antal deltagere 1" means that you can only register one participant at a time.
Lør | 06.09.2025 | 10:00-17:00 |
Søn | 07.09.2025 | 10:00-15:00 |