About me

My storytelling practice comprises both performance and ‘applied’ aspects of storytelling.  In this context, I use myths, folktales and other stories to hold space for gathering, sharing and deep listening. This allows others to enter the story, find where it touches their life and experience, and build solidarity and resilience.

I particularly love working with wondertales – ancient stories weaving powerful universal themes with magic and mystery – in sessions focusing on wellbeing and voice-finding. These stories are both familiar and strange, and they are made new with each telling; they are full of bold images, emotional texture and colour, light and darkness. In them we encounter magical creatures - talking horses and wise wolves, or bright-feathered birds capable of carrying millstones round their necks; we lose ourselves in the dark forest, in the bottom of the well, or in sleep; we cross raging rivers, climb glass mountains and meet the old woman in the woods, and eventually, find our way home again. We can use these stories to connect with what's alive in each of us today, unlock memories and explore archetypal themes: the thresholds of birth, coming-of-age, and death; love, anger, fear and grief; injustice and repair. In particular, I am inspired by working with and for people who are isolated by illness, loss, old age or other factors of vulnerability through a creative process of weaving biographical storytelling, image making, witnessing and deep listening to promote personal reflection, and connection with community, with nature and with the self.

Please contact me, if you would like more information on any forthcoming events, to talk about hiring me as a storyteller for an event, collaborating on a project, or are interested in any one-to-one work.