24-26 NOVEMBER 2023
“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
Every Spring fairytale-like Sintra hosts the International Seminar on Fairytale and Storytelling Therapy, a project born from Moonluza’s founder’s passion and interest in fairytales, stories, myths, legends and their therapeutic potential. Adriana divides her life between Portugal, where she lives and Poland, which she misses. This nostalgia led her to discover and actually experience the fairy-tale therapy for herself, through writing a fairy-tale based in legends from her home village and mountains. Writing the story was her way to travel back to her home mountains, forests and rivers of beautiful southern Poland. Letting imagination run free, it made a bridge between childhood haven and her new homeland of Portugal and the magical, inspirational town of Sintra, which she fell in love with.
Sintra Seminar is a 5-day ‚in person’ immersion, but since not every year everyone can join us in Portugal, every Autumn we hold a gathering, via ZOOM, where everyone is welcome. 3 Days of presentations, workshops, practical components and time spent together (although virtually). Another opportunity to bring together specialists, academics, therapists, storytellers and other enthusiasts of fairy-tales and storytelling, and their therapeutic and healing potential.
Below you can find programme of the last Autumn Online Conference.
PROGRAMME: HERE
Presenters & Presentations/Workshops
Irene Henche Zabala, Clinical and Educational Psychologist, Psychotherapist and PD Supervisor and Trainer, Writer, Spain
Fairytales in language learning – case study on Portuguese for Foreigners
Adriana Jurczyk Duarte, linguist, translator, founder of Moonluza Portugal/Poland
From the Fairy Tale to our Own Tale and how do we get there
Alla Yasnogorodska, MSW, RSW, MPhil, M.ED, Clinical Social Worker/Psychotherapist, Canada
Sensing the World Anew with Hayao Miyazaki’s Animated Eco-Stories
Daniela Kato, Writer, teacher, maker and storyteller working in ecotherapy, Portugal / Japan
Deconstructing the Tarot Story
Imke Verhaeren, Tarot -teacher, -coach, -writer, -creator, the Netherlands
Making sense of Wellness through Collaborative Storytelling
Paulo de Tarso F. Silva, Story Mediator, Writer, Adult Education Consultant and initiator of the Collaborative Story Craft method, Brazil/Finland (The first Brazilian Elf in Finland)
Making Mandalas
Lisa Nackan, Registered Art Therapist and Psychotherapist, Canada
NEXT AUTUMN ONLINE CONFERENCE: 22-24 November 2024
