The Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf

Kevin Cordi is the co-author, with Judy Sima, of Raising Voices: Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes and according to the National Storytelling Network, “the first full time high school storytelling teacher in the country.” and is the founder of both Voices across America Youth Storytelling Project and the Special Interest Group now called Y.E.S. (Youth, Educators, and Storytellers.)

Stories are a natural for camps. Camps offers an opportunity to create a meaningful and memorable connection to the outdoor environment. Educational research suggests that this connection to the outdoors creates a highly charged environment that facilitates learning.

Improvisational storytelling is a teaching tool that is a cross between storytelling that I have been doing for years and improv techniques I learned in my college days. A conversation-with Stephen Hollen about using improvisational storytelling with children.

Jim Flanagan says that to tell a story, you must write it down. Before you tell it, you must have a point of reference, an outline, and then scratching a script. This is the beginning of using writing and storytelling with children in schools to teach the art of creating stories.

Judith Black says that adults edit and censor the stories they share with children. Making them solely out of our wants and objectives instead of based in our children’s needs, might result in robbing them of the greatest tool of transformation we have.

The Truth About Marketing. Most of the mass marketing we see around us is probably not good marketing - and it’s certainly nothing like what would make sense for a storyteller.

Lyn Ford says that breaking into storytelling isn’t quite the description that fits the beginnings of her career. It was more like leaping off the edge of a cliff, with all the materials to build a strong glider that would carry her wherever she should go, but no blueprint or directions on how to build the thing.

What we need to investigate and learn together is healing. In a time of great sickness nothing else should concern us. Healing the earth, healing society, healing our communities, healing ourselves.

Probably we are all aware of the cultural confusions and misconceptions that become evident daily in this world of instant updates. These errors in sensitivity can hurt feelings, and cause outright insults and rage in the offended.

Wow Weekends provide an opportunity for storytellers of all experience levels to gather as peers and grow in the art of telling stories. Using an artist-centered process, each participant will be able to use the collective wisdom of the group in service to the storyteller’s work.