Storytelling Foundations Training
ABOVE: Jenni with workshop participants at the Byron Writer’s Centre.
Storytelling Foundations Training
Do you want to learn how to tell a soulful story? In this series of trainings, you will learn principles which apply to both traditional wonder tales and personal stories, including Moth-like five minute slam tales.
ONLINE TRAINING
Five to six x 1 3/4 hour online sessions.
WHAT
Week 1: Choosing a Story or invoking a story to tell or weave- finding the bones. The difference between written and oral tales.
Week 2: Honing an original story, reweaving a folk tale or braiding a folk tale with a true story- – adding flesh to the bones. Entering the story deeply and listening – massaging the flesh of the tale.
Week 3: How will you tell it? Developing your delivery style for this story, considering opening, closing, props, ritual elements, structure, vocal expression, gesture and pace- bringing the tale to life.
Week 4 & 5: Crafting, rehearsing and polishing a story to tell – developing your voice, generosity and confidence as a teller.
Week 6: Sharing our tales, feedback and discussion.
WHO
You may be an educator, parent, grandparent, community worker, creative or anyone wanting to learn how to craft and tell an oral story in an engaging.
Jenni Cargill-Strong’s teaching style is supportive, participative and fun. She gently supports and encourages everyone to work at their own pace in their own way. She has taught storytelling to people from a wide range of professions and backgrounds for the last twenty years. We will work in pairs, small groups, alone and in the larger group.
NEXT Workshop, see EVENTS page.
Byron Writer’s Festival
‘Moth’ style storytelling workshop, Nimbin workshop
Storytelling Workshop, Byron Writer’s Festival
Storytelling for Environmental Educators, Brisbane
Storytelling for Changemakers, Nthn NSW
An ancient Scottish traveller proverb says, ‘A story should be told eye to eye, mind to mind, heart to heart.’ This is the way Jenni learnt to tell stories, engaging listeners with a warm, expressive style. If you want to learn how to tell in this way, from an Australian storyteller, who is a passionate enchantivist, then you will resonate with Jenni as your story guide and facilitator. Jenni has been an invited presenter and workshop leader at Woodford Folk Festival, the Byron Writer’s Festival, The Australian Fairytale Conference, as well as online storytelling gatherings and conferences in the US, including NSN’s ‘Earth Up’. She is a sessional academic at Southern Cross University, teaching storytelling for the classroom to pre-service teachers in the Storylines Unit
*Travellers are Scottish gypsies. Quote attributed to Stanley Robertson, North-East Traveller & Storyteller.
***If you would like to organise a face to face group in or nearish to Brisbane~Meanjin, let Jenni know via email.
Thanks Jenni, it was great. I woke up still digesting everything on Sunday morning, a very good sign that the learning was deep and important. It was great to reconnect with the storytelling world that I only dipped briefly into on that trip in India… have been waiting for a way back in and this was great. Thanks again!
You were very good at making it feel like a safe place to share my story, which has some trauma in it. Liked the way you had exercises for beginners, as well as people who had a story that was nearly finished. Loved the icebreakers. I don’t like drawing much, but I really found the mapping process helpful. It strengthened my sense of the story. Loved that everything was an invitation.