The International
School of Storytelling
Welcome to the UK's largest selection of storytelling courses
A storyteller is more than a teller of tales. Storytellers are entertainers, teachers and healers with a long spiritual tradition. To be true to this tradition requires ongoing renewal and inspiration.

The International School of Storytelling, founded in 1994, is the longest running centre of its kind where the craft of the storyteller is practiced and honoured. Here stories come alive and serve performers, healers, teachers, the business world, the environment and the wider community. All storytelling courses are taught in English but for sixteen years we have taught people from over 17 countries around the world and most courses have a truly international flavour. Whether an experienced teller or a beginner to the art, everyone is welcome here.

We offer a range of different courses:

~ Introductory storytelling courses at weekends

~ Week long summer storytelling courses

~ Accreditated weekend storytelling workshops

~ Full time professional storytelling training over 3 months every autumn

~ Specialist 5 week storytelling courses in the UK, New Zealand and South Africa

~ Short intensive courses in the States

The school recently changed its’ name to the International School of Storytelling to reflect the international nature of our students, the staff (English, Israeli and Swiss!) and the courses we now teach in many other countries around the world. It is heartening to see how many of our students have gone on to found storytelling initiatives in their own communities, spreading the magic of stories around the world.

"The School of Storytelling might well be re-christened The School of Life.  Over the 20 years from the time I came as a student, and subsequently led workshops and stories from the Celtic world, I heard the often repeated mantra:  'That experience has changed my life'.  The beauty of the teaching and the teachers is that they speak, as our Scottish Travellers say: 'Eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart'.  They give people, in the profoundest sense, the freedom of their own voice.  For this golden meeting I am ever grateful." 
  David Campbell, storyteller, poet, author and elf of mischief.

 

 

 

 

 

We hope you will be inspired by the courses and performances on offer and we look forward to hearing from you! For more information on all our courses click here