MY STORY
This part of our site is a space open to everyone in our vibrant community to share their own stories. There are five main types of stories we are inviting you to contribute:
A healing story or visualization
A memorial for loved ones who have passed on.
A personal story about your life experience.
A folk tale or fairy tale that has special meaning to you.
A short story or poem that you have written yourself.
We are all enchanted and inspired by our Master Tellers over in the Story Circle. But storytelling is something that all of us can share with our families, friends and neighbours. These stories can provoke our feelings, heal our emotional wounds, stimulate our minds or remind us of our sense of morality and heroicism. Amusing stories that make us laugh and feel positive may even speed recovery from illness and strengthen the immune system.
World Storytelling Café co-founder Lucie Andersen-Wood offered our first “My Story”. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see how to submit yours.
Our stories:
Name: Lucie Andersen-Wood
Home: Hertfordshire & Marrakech
Category: Visualisation.
Title: Find your peaceful place: a meditation story – Live
What’s it about?: Meditation exercise about how to create the life you like.
Name: Lucie Andersen-Wood
Home: Hertfordshire & Marrakech
Category: Visualisation.
Title: Your recipe for a delicious life
What’s it about?: Meditation exercise about how to create the life you like.
Name: Lucie Andersen-Wood
Home: Hertfordshire & Marrakech
Category: Visualisation.
Title: Tree of Life
What’s it about?: Meditation exercise about getting back to nature and remembering who you really are.
Name: Chris Richardson
Home: Suffolk, UK
Category:Title: Wreckers
What’s it about?: A hard working man from a small fishing village in Devon from the 1800’s.
Name: Anand Sivakumaran
Home: UK
Category: Memorial
Title: In Memory
What’s it about?: We get so upset when a famous person dies but we don’t even give a thought to the thousands of poverty stricken, underprivileged who have been suffering and dying since the lockdown began
Name: Ivar Nygaard
Home: Norway
Category: Tale
Title: Honesty
What’s it about?: A king and a queen without an heir.
Name: Melissa Jo Smith
Home: Peckham, south London
Category: Memorial
Title: Kevin
What’s it about?: A very special friendship
Name: James Little
Home: UK
Category: Tale
Title: The boy without an name
What’s it about?: A story from a long time ago about a boy without a name.
Name: Jay Cooper
Home: Wales
Category: Welsh Fairy Tale
Title: The White Rock – A traditional Welsh tale ( Third Story)
Name: Jay Cooper
Home: Wales
Category: Personal Tale
Title: My Swarey Fairy ( Second Story)
What’s it about?: A mash-up of lots of bits of stories that Jay liked based on truth(very loosely)
Name: Jay Cooper
Home: Wales
Category: Personal Tale
Title: The old man in the boat ( First Story)
What’s it about?: True events and characters that Jay met with a large dose of imagination and daydreaming of course!
Name: Ivar Nygaard
Home: Norway
Category: Tale
Title: The Miracle
What’s it about?: A poor couple which witnessed a miracle that changed their lives.
Name: Lucie Andersen-Wood
Home: Hertfordshire & Marrakech
Category: Visualisation.
Title: The Garden within
What’s it about?: Meditation exercise about getting back to nature and remembering who you really are.
Name: Keith Rogers
Home: Uk
Category: Tale
Title: Phobos
What’s it about?: A story from ancient greece, written by Keith
Name: Jonathan Lambert
Home: Norwich, Uk
Category: Folk tale
Title: The man who used his son for bait
What’s it about?: A great hunter that never caught a fish before.
Name: Farouk Saadeddine
Home: Tebessa, Algeria
Category: Fairy tale
Title: Stay at home
What’s it about?: A father that lost his wife and asked his children to stay at home while he went on a pilgrimage
Name: Ivar Nygaard
Home: Norway
Category: Norwegian folk tale
Title: The Tree
What’s it about?: A story about a king who planted a tree who didn’t stop growing .
Name: Trish Bennett
Home: Northen Ireland
Category: Short Poem
Title: Half Cut
What’s it about?: It’s a humorous memoir story poem about cutting her husbands hair. Adult themes.
Name: Lucien Ross
Home: Norwich, UK
Category: Fairy Tale
Title: A True Fairy Tale
What’s it about?: A little boy called Ash and his imaginary friend Willow go on a magical quest into the woods to find the King and Queen a daughter.
Name: Farouk Saadeddine
Home: Tebessa, Algeria
Category: Personal story
Title: Nice try stroke, but I’m still here.
What’s it about?: A young man shares the inspirational story of his journey of recovery.
Name: Lucie Andersen-wood
Home: Hertfordshire & Marrakech
Category: Personal story
Title: The Vortex Quest
What’s it about?: A woman who goes on a journey up a mountain and finds so much more than she was looking for.
SUBMISSIONS
Stories should be suitable for a family audience. Ideally please record your story on video, no special equipment is necessary, any smartphone will do, preferably in a landscape (horizontal) orientation. If video is not possible then send your story in written form or share an audio recording. Please also let us know your name, the place you call home, the story title and a few words to explain what its about.
Please email your submission to: mystory.wsc@gmail.com
For longer videos it is best to use a file-sharing service like wetransfer or dropbox.
Lucie and her team of volunteers will be reviewing your emails and adding stories here from time to time. These will normally broadcast at midnight UK time. We hope that together we may spark a seed of joy, heal a weary heart or further inspire others as our community grows.