Training

StoryTellerScotland provide a unique storytelling training service for individual and professionals who want to learn how to enhance their life and work with the craft of storytelling.

Education StoryTellerScotland offer storytelling workshops to give people confidence in telling and using stories as an enhancement for educational curriculum. These sessions range from after-school or evening workshops to day-long training sessions. For academic professionals, specific areas of your curriculum can be addressed and explored.

Youth Workers Sometimes using a story is an appropriate avenue to teach children. StoryTellerScotland provide an entrance into the craft of story for people working with children and will indicate ways of bringing stories into all aspects of teaching. Fun and Personal Development These courses are for those who find themselves tongue-tied at parties, tripping over the punchline of their favourite joke, or invited to speak at meetings, church services and other gatherings. No previous experience is necessary. A Taste of Telling These 1-2 hour sessions help you learn to be relaxed, to launch into an anecdote, a joke or a story and feel fully at ease in company. Some bits of fun to set folk at ease, break the ice, start up the party and get folk listening. Day-Long Sessions All the above with additional guidance, practice and practical advise on types of stories appropriate to group requirements. How to find, learn, tell and make stories. The Art of Storytelling Sessions offer practice in the skills of the craft, explore the range and types of stories and aim to make participants confident in telling and using stories in a variety of settings: - Enlivening family life - Enhancing professional expertise - Developing performance skills - Exploring therapeutic aspects - Extending entertainment arts