What was the StoryCamp for you? What made it special? What did you learn from it?
StoryCamp helped me understand how important stories are in our lives and in our work. And that nothing beats a good story, regardless of the topic :) We were telling stories and experienced to be connected. You gave us the perfect and inspiring frame and shared your knowledge. I will come back.
It was rejuvenating. Mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Special: The select group of people, wonderful facilitation, openness. Learn: how to better interact with others, how to think around stories (personal and organizational alike).
Meeting old friends, finding new friends. Open format. Sense Making through sharing microstories.
Celebrating why stories matter, heal and reveal.
When I see the group photo from last day, I feel all the more sorry that I couldn't stay until the end.So I couldn't really say goodbye and would like to express my big thanks to everyone involved in the process, in the inspiring sessions and dialogues and in the organization!This has never happened to me: That I come back from a multi-day workshop and a 10-hour journey home with more energy than I left. The camp was the best in a long time, the perfect setting, the great open structure, the incredibly interesting people, the food, everything ...! Thank you all very much and best regards from Linz, Gerald
It was a special event with a strong community spirit. I learned a lot about the camp format, about hosting an event, about tools and methods for storytelling, about fellow earth inhabitants and their stories and I experienced the magic of storytelling!
The Camp was bliss, friendship, and soul exchange. the fabulous hosting made it special, as well as the splendid location. I learned a lot about the art of hosting, the magic of the group, and the power of a safe, mindful space, and the right mix between inspiration, reflexion, and relaxation
A unique place to exchange and get inspiration around storywork A great place to meet wonderful People, to go in touch with them, to hear and tell amazing stories, to learn for my personal transformation prozess how to do the next steps and to keep an incredible amount of positive energy to realize those steps on my way. Thank you all so much.
StoryCamp 2021 – Review von Gerald Harringer
“Was nehmt ihr aus dem Storycamp mit nach Hause?
„Sicher die große Vielfalt an Methoden, mit denen Menschen eingeladen werden können, ihre Geschichten zu teilen. Aber auch die enorme Bandbreite zwischen der Instrumentalisierung von Storytelling und dem selbstermächtigenden Aspekten von Geschichten. Auf unsere eigene Arbeit bezogen, würden wir gerne innovative Wege in der narrativen Analyse erkunden – mit Blick auf ‚Embodied Sensemaking‘, mit Einbeziehen von Kunst und Technologie. Letzteres jedoch, ohne dabei den Fokus auf den Wert menschlicher Beziehungen zu verlieren.“
Eine tolle Nachlese von Gerald Harringer zum Storycamp 2021. Den gesamten Text findet sich hier.
PARETZ OR DO YOU WANT TO SEE ME AGAIN
Why ARNO SCHMIDT? Now. When I think about what happened there. The wind. There was no wind. But words in the air. Like the story of three refugees and their tender try to settle somewhere in the woods. Far away from homecoming.
But the faraway seems nearby thinking of PARETZ and REBECCA SOLNITs whispering: “We think we tell stories, but often stories tell us, tell us who to love and who to hate, whether to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories bridle us, ride us, whip us forward, drive us to do something we then do unquestioningly. The task of learning freedom requires learning to listen to stories, to interrogate them, to pause and listen to silence, to name something and become a storyteller ourselves.“
Remembering PARETZ I start with a moment before dawn. Walking along the HAVEL, not really seeing, but feeling the channel beside me. My whispering, than stuttering, than shouting – your name. And then just listening the many voices through which nature happens to answer me. Paretz, do you see me from where I see you? In this camplike gathering. In these roundabouts of growing and becoming small.
My team mates and the participants from all over the world. Don’t care about nations and borders. A ship is passing. Suddenly. A huge vessel that is crossing the entire screen of my eyes. Like in a movie. I watch it passing. See the silence. Feel the colours. Hear the smell of the channel. And touch the birds formations over my head.
We are like these vessels, so welded in difference and so secretly connected. We are communicating. But why? And how? What holds us together? We are connected through story. Secretly spelling the threads of story. Holding this place to gather.
Nature awakes. I unlock the doors of the camp. Like every day. I am the keyholder, the temporary house keeper of this place, where so many magic things are allowed to happen. All the time.
„For a while the pointed Hippocratic face of the moon leaned diagonally up there, in stained linen cloths, so that we first wavered, shuddered: strange: such pale light and wind: and to be human at the same time!“
Yes, indeed. I am a blessed. Human. Being. Because of you.
This camp was built inside of us. A vibrant sculpture of belonging.
Who knows what will become of us?
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Quotes:
1) Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby
2) Arno Schmidt. Brand’s Haide. Krumau oder willst du mich noch einmal sehen
