Storylistening Effect, Sunwolf, 2003

the Storylistening effect:

Interdisciplinary Research Findings from the Crossroads of Social Psychology, Education, Fol!lore, and Communication
Sunwolf, Ph"#", $"#", Santa Clara %ni&ersity 'or!shop( )ational Storytelling Conference, Chicago, 2003

edicine, Counseling,

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At nightfall the cuckolded and damaged king ordered another maiden and her slave brought to his chambers, and took his pleasure. As the night wore on, the slave spoke, Mistress, if you are not sleepy, tell us one of your lovely little tales to while away the night before I must bid you goodbye at daybreak, for I fear the fate that will befall you tomorrow. To which Shahrazad replied, bowing to the king, With the greatest of pleasure. May I have permission to tell a story? Surprised, the king nodded. Whereupon did Shahrazad smile slowly and say, Listen!

The Arabian Nights (Alf Laylah Wa Laylah)

What do we know about the effects of storylistening? Expanding personal experiences as tellers and listeners, you will be given findings from research examining storytelling effects in counseling, medicine, education, and psychology. Strategies for using research to expand your practice and obtain funding will be offered, with models to create research. Learn how listeners become storystoned, and the surprising results of the research of Dr. Honos-Webb and Sunwolf, involving listening to folktales to reduce anxiety following the 9-11 terrorist attacks. This is the nations first therapeutic study on the use of storylistening versus personal journaling to reduce anxiety following the 9-11 terrorist attacks, in which Dr. Sunwolf told folktales on 4 successive days directly after the attacks to college students, who were tested for stress and bereavement before and afterwards. This workshop makes accessible to practicing tellers, healers, and educators published cross-disciplinary researchin which one variable was storytelling. The use of folktales in medicine, law, psychotherapy, and educational psychology will be reviewed, focusing on studies that have successfully endured scholarly peer review (pointing out research designs, theories used to explain results, and important gaps). The list of studies is designed so participants can share and apply findings in their own practices or present them to the gatekeepers who control storytelling program funding. As a result of this workshop, you will: (1) learn what we know about the effects of listening to orally told stories, (2) learn how to critically read a scholarly study on storytelling, (3) obtain strategies for using published research to promote storytelling in your practices and communities, and (4) gain confidence and skills to design your own research that can yield important measurable results about storylistening and storytelling.

*ral tradition has it that while the nightly tales continued to unfold, Shahra+ad ,ore the !ing three children" -fter a thousand and one nights of story listening, the damaged !ing learned ,oth to lo&e and trust, sparing the teller.s life and !eeping her as /ueen" 0hen did they commence to en1oy life, until they were o&erta!en ,y the 2rea!er of 0ies and #estroyer of #elights" Hazar Afsana (a thousand legends)

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