by storytree | Mar 5, 2023 | Learning to tell stories, Public Performances, Resources, The value of oral storytelling
How do you choose a story in a soulful way? Well, sometimes you just need a history story for Year 9 tomorrow or a story on kindness for Preschoolers next week, and you haven’t got the luxury or space to spend time contemplating and that is 100% OK! But when you...
by storytree | Feb 20, 2023 | Fairy Tales, Feminism, Folk Tales, Learning to tell stories, Local stories, Public Performances, social justice, Stories of the feminine, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling, Women's rights
What a thrill it was to present as a member of the #Australian Fairytale Society yesterday, alongside my inspiring colleagues, @Bettina Nissen and @Kathryn Gossow at GenreCon 2023 in the beautiful Qld State Library. GenreCon is predominantly for those in the writing...
by storytree | Nov 1, 2022 | Learning to tell stories, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
Do you want to learn how to tell a story soulfully? In this 15 minute video introduction to my new Storytelling Foundations training, I explain ~ three benefits of oral storytelling ~ four essential elements of an oral story ~ how the myth of...
by storytree | Oct 20, 2022 | Learning to tell stories, The value of oral storytelling
I taught a Personal Storytelling workshop on Saturday in Nimbin, organised by Rene Nowrie. Rene plans to start a Moth-like personal story event there next year called Nimbin Storytellers. Read the article below. What a glorious spring day it was! On the way, I visited...
by storytree | Oct 7, 2022 | Australian stories, environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Ocean Stories, Stories of the feminine, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
ABOVE: Selkie seal and woman, Painting by Jessica Shirley On Monday I came back from a fantastical weekend in Brisbane, having attended the Australian Fairytale Conference in Brisbane, run by the Australian Fairytale Society. On Sunday, I delighted in presenting a...
by storytree | Mar 7, 2020 | Folk Tales, social justice, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
Bizarre hoarding behaviour over toilet paper has developed in Australia, the US, Singapore and possibly other countries in response to the rise of COVID-19, the most serious strain of the novel coronavirus. People are not just buying enough for a few weeks of...
