CircleTales the Adventure Storytelling Game

Listen to an online workshop presented by CircleTales with our special guest Sandhya Dave exploring the therapeutic function of storytelling as an effective tool for encouraging community connection, diversity, and inclusion, presented online onNovember 22nd, 2020.

In this hour-long workshop, Sandhya delves into the psychology of telling stories, and how storytelling is especially vital now, in our time of polarities, as a means of revitalising community connection and embracing diversity and inclusion. During the workshop participants had the opportunity to ask questions and reflect on the transformative role of  engaging through story.

About Sandhya Dave

Sandhya brings a rich and varied perspective to the topic of storytelling, from her training in Gestalt psychology and Shiatsu bodywork, to her work as a Diversity Consultant & Educator with Devon Development Education supporting cultural diversity and anti-racism work in schools and the community where her work here takes her into the arena of training and exploring systemic racism and the decolonising of our minds  and institutions. 

She trains on a programme from the Global Centre, called Cultural Champions which takes cultural diversity and anti-racism work into schools and the community. She is currently developing a new project called Growing Resilient Communities in Exeter, UK and she has recently begun working for Devon Rape Crisis & Sexual Abuse Services as a specialist trauma- informed therapist.

Her commitment to social justice and environmental guardianship is a guiding principle and she has a long history of involvement in reforestation projects including Trees For Life in Scotland, Vrikshamitra in the foothills of the Himalayas (Friend of the Trees), and is part of a core group that established Moor Trees in 1998 to reforest parts of Dartmoor (to date they have planted 100,000 trees). She is also a co-creator of Devon Earth and Faith Network, a community group of diverse faith and belief traditions for which she has organised 8 conference days looking at faith and sustainability in action. Her ancestral roots are Indian having grown up with the ecological religion of Hinduism and the discovering of this for herself in its truest essence.

A gifted storyteller, Sandhya “believes in the power of stories for personal and planetary change and how sharing stories can help us to build connection and even change the narratives we hold and believe.”  

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About CircleTales

CircleTales is a new tabletop storytelling game designed in Exeter, Devon UK to help people, whether friends, family or complete strangers, find meaningful connection through this collaborative, insightful and fun story-making game.

CircleTales has been embraced by psychologists, teachers, parents, children, and storytellers, among others, who recognise it as a powerful tool for developing confident speaking, active listening, and imaginative storytelling while fostering meaningful connection.

CircleTales games feature thought-provoking questions that elicit unique one-word responses from players which are then incorporated into a shared story in combination with word prompts selected by the roll of a dice from which players co-create a shared story. The word prompts have been carefully chosen to elicit stories that are founded on character strengths, natural settings, disruptive conflict and resolution, magical encounters, and personal insight. CircleTales draws out richly creative and original stories with every game and forges meaningful connections between people of all ages and backgrounds.