"If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories.
If you want them to be brilliant, tel them more stories."
- Albert Einstein
If you want them to be brilliant, tel them more stories."
- Albert Einstein
Storytelling is the oldest form of teaching. It bonded the early human communities, giving children the answers to the biggest questions of creation, life, and the afterlife. Stories define us, shape us, control us, and make us. Not every human culture in the world is literate, but every single culture tells stories.
Stories create magic and a sense of wonder at the world. Stories teach us about life, about ourselves and about others. Storytelling is a unique way for children and adults alike to develop an understanding, respect and appreciation for others, and can promote a positive attitude to people from different lands and religions.
A person’s mind, body and spirit each age at a different pace. Several studies suggest that for older adults, storytelling is a great way to build happiness, resilience and a better quality of life (Kenyon, 2003a). Telling and listening to stories: Creating a wisdom environment for older people.
Differences between cultures and various lifestyles are introduced to people through stories. All the stories are informative and help those who may know very little about the life in the world outside their own geography and routines.
Benefits of Storytelling
Storytelling is an art form, which can be taught and mastered with the help of good teachers. It has great value in the education of children and the wider public. It is also a unique tool for getting messages across for organisations, communities or individuals, ranging from immigrants and refugees to NGOs and the corporate world, be it a businesses' core values or individuals on their career paths.
When you listen to a great storyteller, there is a magical moment. The audience sit enthralled, mouths open, eyes wide. If that isn’t enough reason, then consider that storytelling:
Storytelling at the Fair Earth Foundation
1. International Storytelling Gathering (Spring 2021) in Tenerife
As part of the island's celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the first Earth Day - the world's largest environmental movement involving 60,000 environmental organisations around the world. The Gathering will be a part of the International Spring Dolphin Festival.
In Tenerife it will embrace a magical time of year when Bottlenose Dolphins rear their young in the waters below the giant sea cliffs of Los Gigantes, and this beautiful island awakens from it's winter, with wild flowers, wonderful mountain treks through pine forest, stargazing from El Teide volcanic crater, the best place to see the heavens in the Northern Hemisphere and the most amazing sunsets.
As a very spiritual island it will also embrace the foremost exponents of the mind, body and soul movement that exists there.
If you want be involved in this incredible experience, please get in touch.
2. Storytelling Workshops: Learn How to Tell Great Stories of Your Own and Improve your Communication Skills
We will be running workshops from 4-7 days in the UK, Ireland, Slovenia and Tenerife. For further information, please get in touch.
3. Storytelling Workshops in your School or Business
Half day sessions for further information, please get in touch.
Stories create magic and a sense of wonder at the world. Stories teach us about life, about ourselves and about others. Storytelling is a unique way for children and adults alike to develop an understanding, respect and appreciation for others, and can promote a positive attitude to people from different lands and religions.
A person’s mind, body and spirit each age at a different pace. Several studies suggest that for older adults, storytelling is a great way to build happiness, resilience and a better quality of life (Kenyon, 2003a). Telling and listening to stories: Creating a wisdom environment for older people.
Differences between cultures and various lifestyles are introduced to people through stories. All the stories are informative and help those who may know very little about the life in the world outside their own geography and routines.
Benefits of Storytelling
Storytelling is an art form, which can be taught and mastered with the help of good teachers. It has great value in the education of children and the wider public. It is also a unique tool for getting messages across for organisations, communities or individuals, ranging from immigrants and refugees to NGOs and the corporate world, be it a businesses' core values or individuals on their career paths.
When you listen to a great storyteller, there is a magical moment. The audience sit enthralled, mouths open, eyes wide. If that isn’t enough reason, then consider that storytelling:
- Inspires purposeful talking
- Raises the enthusiasm for reading texts to find stories, reread them, etc.
- Initiates writing, especially in children, as they will quickly want to write stories and tell them
- Improves listening skills
- Gives a motivating reason for English-language learners, children and those from overseas, to speak and write English.
Storytelling at the Fair Earth Foundation
1. International Storytelling Gathering (Spring 2021) in Tenerife
As part of the island's celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the first Earth Day - the world's largest environmental movement involving 60,000 environmental organisations around the world. The Gathering will be a part of the International Spring Dolphin Festival.
In Tenerife it will embrace a magical time of year when Bottlenose Dolphins rear their young in the waters below the giant sea cliffs of Los Gigantes, and this beautiful island awakens from it's winter, with wild flowers, wonderful mountain treks through pine forest, stargazing from El Teide volcanic crater, the best place to see the heavens in the Northern Hemisphere and the most amazing sunsets.
As a very spiritual island it will also embrace the foremost exponents of the mind, body and soul movement that exists there.
If you want be involved in this incredible experience, please get in touch.
2. Storytelling Workshops: Learn How to Tell Great Stories of Your Own and Improve your Communication Skills
We will be running workshops from 4-7 days in the UK, Ireland, Slovenia and Tenerife. For further information, please get in touch.
3. Storytelling Workshops in your School or Business
Half day sessions for further information, please get in touch.
SOme of our stories and the Storytellers
ŠPELA KAPLJA
"Storytelling plays a crucial role in environmental education and in all other kinds of raising awareness for protecting nature activities. But what kinds of stories are needed in this time of now where storytelling is needed more than ever? What is the power and responsibility of a story? Stories bring the values of heart, culture, compassion, kindness, cooperation. Their message goes as far as it touches the core of our longing and spreads interest and love for nature instead of fear that is spread through other forms of media."
Špela is well known storyteller from Slovenia. She works with local school children, taking them for for walks in forests to tell them stories about nature and the environment, she sees her role as developing an awareness in young people of the importance of the environment and of their role in protecting it. She is working with the Fair Earth Foundation to coordinate our first ever International Storytelling Gathering in Tenerife for which we will be bringing in storytellers from around the world!
She is also developing workshops to help train storytellers, which will be delivered in Slovenia, Tenerife, Ireland and the UK and further short workshops to be delivered in schools and in business environments to help people learn how to tell their stories more effectively.
Špela is well known storyteller from Slovenia. She works with local school children, taking them for for walks in forests to tell them stories about nature and the environment, she sees her role as developing an awareness in young people of the importance of the environment and of their role in protecting it. She is working with the Fair Earth Foundation to coordinate our first ever International Storytelling Gathering in Tenerife for which we will be bringing in storytellers from around the world!
She is also developing workshops to help train storytellers, which will be delivered in Slovenia, Tenerife, Ireland and the UK and further short workshops to be delivered in schools and in business environments to help people learn how to tell their stories more effectively.
The donkey by ŠPELA KAPLJA |
THE bee BY ŠPELA KAPLJA |
THE frog BY ŠPELA KAPLJAthe turtle BY ŠPELA KAPLJAThe transcripts of all the stories for you to use are below: |
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Esther Kamara |
Esther Kamara was born in the Netherlands to a Dutch mother and a Sierra Leonean father.
She holds a BA in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2010-2013), speaks four languages fluently and runs her own creative writing business. In 2016 she became one of the organisers of the yearly Freetown Music Festival and relocated to Freetown. She has been actively involved in the cultural sector of Sierra Leone ever since. Esther has excellent knowledge of both the Dutch and the Sierra Leonean culture and has always moved freely within the two worlds. She specialises in writing, research, social media marketing, event management and creative solutions. |