STORYTELLING

1. What's storytelling? What is a story? Difference between written and `told' stories?

2. Room set-up - lighten up - use that space - consider audience needs - be seen
3. What makes a good beginning? - points to consider before beginning to tell
4. Linking with audience - read the audience - pauses work - ways of telling - adult audiences
5. Story reading - picture books - story selection for readings
6. Interactive storytelling -
7. Organic storytelling -
8. Personal stories - family characters - stories reveal insights, courage - finding a personal story
9. Tools of storytelling - how we use words - voice exercises - body language - transitions - movement
10. Props - costumes - storytelling aids - puppets - musical instruments.
11. Story as therapy - stories heal - stories build bridges
12. World's greatest teachers used stories - stories to build attitudes
13. Story selection - be passionate - how to choose - wrap your message in a story
14. Where to find stories - how to fit stories to your audience
15. Adapting to oral forms - practice, refine - let audience join in - learning a story.
16. Endings
17. Stage fright and other disasters - voice lets you down - children's capers - handling a heckler
18. Target audiences for stories
19. Business matters. Storytelling guilds. Contacts. Booklists. Resources.


Helen McKay & Berice Dudley, Australian storytellers