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When personal trauma feels unspeakable, collective stories can lend it voice. And when fairytales are offered up for the retelling, individuals can find their own narrative agency and their own creative path through the woods. To mark National Storytelling Week 2024, Transpersonal Art Therapist and Place2Be School Project Manager Anna Atkinson shares a formative experience running a storytelling group for traumatised women.

The Tree of Life is a narrative therapy intervention that grounds people in their past and present communities. As we mark Refugee Week 2021, with its theme of ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’, Integrative Arts Psychotherapist Sheetal Amin talks us through this approach and explains how it has helped her refugee clients to reclaim their roots and grow new connections.