In Service Options:

We offer workshops for those who want to improve their storytelling skills.
Using storytelling in the classroom.
Storytelling for community building and social justice
Will work with you to create a workshop that suits your desired outcomes


1.  Keynote: - 45-60 minutes: ($600.)
Addresses the importance and value of oral storytelling and reading aloud to early childhood learners. Provides a quick overview of “how to” put down the book and tell a story.  Includes performance modeling.

2.   90 minutes-2 hours workshop: ($800.)
An extension of the above with a storytelling activity to enable an early childhood educator to “rediscover” their inner storyteller and tell a short story from their own experience/memory.  Includes information on the importance tools of the storyteller that we all have already: vocal and facial expression, imagination and memory.

3.  3-hour workshop:  ($1000.)
Incorporates all of the above and includes additional   storytelling activities to help teachers incorporate improvisation and listening skills in their own storytelling.  Also can include a group exercise which leads participants through the process of putting the book down and telling a story out loud  incorporates all of the above and includes additional   storytelling activities to help teachers incorporate improvisation and listening skills in their own storytelling.  Also can include a group exercise which leads participants through the process of putting the book down and telling a story out loud.

4.  Full Day: 6 hours with breaks /lunch - ($1500.)
Includes all of the above with inclusion of other oral traditions such as songs, poems and games to play and an activity that includes creating stories in small groups to incorporate vocal and physical expression for characterization, and the opportunity for each participant to learn a short story from the page and tell it out loud in small groups.
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In the group work, participants will learn how to give appropriate feedback with affirmations, questions and suggestions.

Participants will receive handouts with “How to Tell A Story” and a bibliography of books on storytelling, and good books to tell out loud.

Participants will be asked about their storytelling experiences at the beginning.
At the end they will be asked to say how they will use what they have learned with their students.


Workshop space needs to be flexible so that participants can stand and sit (preferably not at tables). Participants will also need to be able to move around in the space. It should be big enough and/or have break out areas for small groups to work and be able to hear each other.