Storytelling to the group and group recreation of the story

Storytelling can be considered a group shared construction since several authors - groups and individuals, narrators and listeners - tell and retell stories, recreating a new myth from the original one. This paper describes in English and French the process of storytelling and group story recreation, that developed in a workshop that was conducted with a small Canadian bilingual cultural group. The group story results from developing storytelling roles in every group member and from joining their individual stories, languages and cultures. In this experience two observations were made: 1) The group dynamics showed along the group recreation of the individual stories, that participants forged a significant "fraternal" kind of communicative style between them. 2) The cultural messages in the Canadian group stories and the post-workshop story of a Canadian Anglophone participant, integrated the own Canadian cultural messages to the Latin American storyteller's trigger story brought from his own Latin American culture.