Story Telling & Ourselves. What Do They Tell Us?

In this Podcast Katrice Horsley discusses how to unravel the narratives that form us and our identify. Where do they come and how do they form our own story

"Katrice Horsley is an International Narrative Consultant and former UK National Storytelling Laureate.

She has a background in Child Play and Development and worked for many years within Birmingham delivering their City Play Training Course as well as working as a Youth and Community Worker.

She lived and worked in Ghana for 6 years and whilst there delivered and designed training for UNICEF, DFID and UNHCR as well as developing a TV show that used storytelling to help children learn.

She is published by Routledge (The Evaluator’s Cookbook) and is presently working on a workbook about her Narrative4Change Training. She has also written an award winning bereavement resource for the British Heart Foundation that is available online.

Her passion is to ‘give voice’ to those who feel they have no story to tell or who are unable to speak it out. This work has taken her into high security prisons, to areas of high conflict such as Gaza and into the slums of Nairobi.

She has started a podcast Un-Stuffing Our Story about the stories about ourselves and others. "In this podcast we start unravel the narratives that form us, identify where they came from and own our own story."