Storytelling for Leaders

Workshop

The Story Ground two-day Story Skills Workshop is a powerful storytelling training that develops people’s passion and capacity to find, craft and shape their experiences into compelling, insightful and meaningful stories.

The workshop aims to create a safe space to explore personal history, learn about story and craft and shape a story to ‘perform’.

The workshop runs over two days, two weeks apart, to enable people to work on their story, have an individual coaching session with me (optional extra) and bring their story to the second day. This workshop is excellent for people who want to develop their speaking skills and confidence, as well as for confident speakers who want to learn how to tell better stories.

This workshop will be offered twice in 2020:

First Workshop

9.30am – 4.30pm on Fridays 17 and 31 July, 2020

Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday St, Carlton VIC 3053

Second Workshop

9.30am – 4.30pm on Mondays 12 and 26 October, 2020

Library at the Dock, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands VIC 3008

Cost: Workshop only $450, Conc $295

Workshop and 75 min individual online coaching session $595, concession $420

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Why learn to tell stories? Deliberate story crafting is an ancient and deeply reflective process that draws people to make meaning and find resolution in their experiences, and then share their story as a gift for the audience.

When we take the time to reflect and craft, practise and share, we develop:

• Trust and Connection: We reveal more of who we are, safely and meaningfully, which enables people to know and trust us. 

• Creativity and Imagination: Oral stories are told in large part from images, not words, relying on imagination. The act of crafting and shaping a story proper from the raw material of experience is deeply creative.

• Confidence: We become confident in our voice, our experiences and our truth.

• Emotional Expression: In crafting our stories we process our emotions, so that in the telling we can, with control, feel, express and resolve. 

• Make Meaning: The shaping of our stories, is also the shaping of our meaning-making. We deepen our understanding of who we are, what has shaped us and how we wish to go forward. 

• Captivate Attention: There is nothing more powerful at holding human attention than Story, and nothing more persuasive than a Story that holds a universal truth.

• Weave Message with story: All stories are embedded in values and share a message about life. When we weave our message with story, we humanise ourselves and our message. 

• Self Awareness and Insight: Stories have a way of leading us to what we need to explore in our lives, what we need to understand and transform through the storytelling process.