We all have an inner guide inside. Sometimes this guide speaks to us in dreams, and at other times in whatever interior language we are open to: images, words, music, flashes of inspiration. Stories are another such language. When we open to this language inside ourselves, our guide can become an Inner Storyteller.

Would you like to strengthen your connection to your inner world and your creativity?
This workshop will offer you the chance to open up more to your intuition and inner guidance. Working with the language of fairy tales, we will learn more about creative energy, deepest longing and our heart’s desire. Practicing the skills of Intuitive Storytelling, we will open up to our inner visualising and inner listening, and invite our intuition to express itself through us. Telling such stories requires presence, self-compassion and trust. Together we will create an atmosphere of safety and mutual support that facilitates this tender, powerful exploration.

• Venue:  near Oslo
• Language: English, with the possibility of partnerwork in  Norwegian/Scandinavian
• Tuition and full board cost: 2000NOK
  Concessions available for students/ unemployed.
• Booking: contact Ylva Sjaastad, +47 9759 5978, ylva.sjaastad@gmail.com

Feedback from the last Introductory Workshop…

“I signed up to this course with a feeling that this retreat was not any ordinary storytelling course – and it certainly was not. By the end of the course I felt unusually inspired and nourished, and that my creativity and love for stories had been renewed.

The working method which Leo introduced felt a bit like combining meditation with creative storytelling with an emphasis on fantasy and connection to the intuition.

Leo’s years-long studies into both the outer and the inner stories has made him a gifted storyteller, a patient and kind teacher and a creator of touching tales and wonderful stories.

A safe and heart-opening atmosphere was quickly built up in the group due to Leo’s honest and generous and wise presence.

This retreat gave such joy to my soul, and I hope to continue this type of work in other workshops with Leo Sofer.”

Ina Eskildsen, Psychotherapist, Teacher and Storyteller, Denmark

“When I went to Leo Sofer’s course on intuitive storytelling I had already worked a bit with improvised storytelling, but the workshop changed my attitude towards the work and gave me a new and much more meaningful approach that made it much deeper, alive and colorful. We entered a place where new stories came alive in an effortless way even though it was quite shaky to make stories on the spot in front of a group. I have continued the work with a colleague and entered a new unknown world of wonderful spontaneous stories from a store that never dries up. I get suprised over and over again that it is possible to ask a question or raise a topic and get answers from the intuitive stories. I have also told spontaneous stories in front of different audiences together with my colleague after the workshop and am amazed that it is possible to make interesting stories that work on the spot. I am very grateful for Leo’s workshop and his work has inspired me deeply.”

Ylva Sjaastad, Storyteller and Singer, Norway

I like how Leo, with great sensitivity and insight led us, the participants, step by step into the world of intuitive storytelling. From the very first day Leo managed to create an atmosphere of openness and trust in the group, which was a great help in overcoming psychological obstacles to the endeavor of telling intuitively. I learned to value the scary thrill of ‘being at the edge’, and leaving my comfort zone in order to follow where the stories led. I was amazed that every participant on the last day was able to tell an interesting and vivid half-hour-long story, completely from intuition. But more than telling stories, these 5 days have given me a chance to experience the value of honesty, presence and deep acceptance, in relation to creativity and communication. I feel I will take some of that with me in my way of communicating with groups, and in my life in general. I am grateful for that experience.

Mathias Granum, Music Therapist and Storyteller, Denmark