Telling stories with all senses
Culture for all: mehr¬Sinn® Stories - Workshop on inclusive storytelling
26 September from 11am to 4pm in Lüdenscheid
Key data about the event
Telling stories with all senses
Date: Friday, 26 September 2025, from 11 am to 4 pm
Location: Integrative Cultural Workshop Alte Schule, Altenaer Straße 207, 53513 Lüdenscheid
Participation is free of charge.
Information on accessibility can be found here.
Register by September 16th using our registration form.
Telling stories is cultural participation
Perhaps storytelling is one of humanity's first and most important cultural techniques. Stories convey knowledge, experiences, and life lessons. They are part of cultural identities. Stories have the power to connect times, people, cultures, and worlds. This makes it all the more important that stories can reach everyone.
Mehr¬Sinn® Stories is a format that transforms fairy tales and stories so that people with disabilities can understand them. Mehr¬Sinn® Stories are not just narrated. The original story is adapted so that it can be perceived and experienced with all the senses. Access to understanding is enabled through sensations, emotions, and memories. Meaningful music, props for smelling, tasting, touching, and looking, and engaging language are used. During the workshop, participants will learn about the concept of Mehr¬Sinn® Stories and develop and create their own stories.
Contents of the workshop
- Introduction of KuBus® e. V.
- Presentation of the concept of mehr¬Sinn® stories and exercises for the sensory perception of stories.
- Creating your own more¬Sinn® stories.
- Summary and discussion of the resulting story templates.
- All participants will receive a manual for a nominal fee of 10 euros.
You can find an insight into the mehr¬Sinn® stories on the KuBus® e. V. website.
Workshop leader
Dr. Anke Groß-Kunkel is a senior teacher in higher education at the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics for People with Intellectual Disabilities at the University of Cologne. Her work and research focuses on inclusive literature teaching and cooperation between the special needs program for intellectual development and the subjects of German and English. The LEA Leseklub®, mehr¬Sinn® Geschichten, and SUSHI projects offer a connection between school and post-school learning. The summer school inclusive (SUSHI) focuses on participatory education and research. Anke Groß-Kunkel also investigates the literary participation of people with intellectual and complex disabilities using the inclusive LEA Leseklub® and mehr¬Sinn® Geschichten programs. She also implements these projects in practice with the KuBus® eV association.
The KuBus® eV association stands for culture and encounters for people in diverse situations. The association is committed to harmonious coexistence and equal participation for all people. KuBus eV offers training in multi-sensory storytelling and the development of multi-sense® stories. More information about KuBus® eV can be found on the association's website.
Participants
The program is aimed at full-time and freelance employees in cultural institutions in South Westphalia – particularly in the museum, library, and theater sectors. Cultural mediators, cultural and museum educators, cultural and leisure guides, storytellers, cultural landscape guides, and culturally active employees in social institutions.
The number of participants is limited to 20 people.
Invitation and directions as PDF
You can download the invitation with all key information as well as information on how to get there and accessibility by clicking on the button.
Information about the integrative cultural workshop Alte Schule can be found on the cultural workshop website.
Binding registration until 16 September
Registration by email
Registration by email to orga@kulturregion-swf.de
If registering by email: Please provide your full name, your institution, and your place of residence or work. Please also let us know if you need any support, and if so, what kind, and whether you will be traveling by train. The event is free of charge.
Registration via a form
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