Scheherazade and the utterly imperative word

story therapeutics in the Arabian nights

 

To tell and listen to stories is to inspire and expire human experience - it is the profound breath of life. The night weaver, as Scheherazade was known, using her incomparable cunning, showed that we are indeed sustained by endless narratives.

 

The frame story of the Arabian nights is the thread that leads us in this meeting about the power of words and the curative strength of imagination, about women´s political and poetical role.

 

With poetical and theoretical texts, creative experiences, visual arts and narratives, we will weave relationships between this literary treasure and the therapeutic power of stories.