Inger Lise Oelrich is a theatre director, storyteller and adult educator. For the past 30 years she has worked with creativity and the art of community-building as a path of development. She travels widely giving trainings, workshops and talks on storytelling as a healing and transformational art in many walks of life. She has worked in theatre, education, social work, health and businesslife.
Inger Lise is Founding Director of "Storytelling for Life" 2004, Founder of "ALBA - Nordic Healing Story Alliance" 2005, initiative and organizer of several international symposia, ”Storytelling as a Healing Art” 2005, "Storytelling as a Pathway to Peace" 2007 and "Words that Heal" 2010 in Sweden. She has developed and leads a nordic training in the skills of applied and healing storytelling. For more information see storytelling@telia.com and www.NordiskALBA.org
In 2007 she founded "The Child at Heart" under the Ministry of Education, a project developing storytelling as a common heart language between teachers, social workers, police et al who work with children and youth at risk.
Since 2009 she is Founding Director of the ”ALBA Peace Project”, investigating the special competencies of a storyteller in conflict and peace-creating situations. She has lately been Senior Advisor for theFolkeBernadotteAcademyinSweden, developing storytelling as a tool for democracy and reconciliation processes during the Iraq Dialogue Meetings 2010.