Storytelling to Connect & Empower

W O R  K  S  H  O  P

for women who want to tell stories that touch listeners

Humans have been telling stories to bring clarity, diffuse tension, and boost understanding since we lived in caves.

Come and have fun while learning the precise steps for crafting and telling stories that convey your values, share your experiences, and bring everyone together.

What you learn

– why stories are powerful/ your brain on story

– how to tell a story that connects/the 5 steps

– connections and how they work/you, the people in your story, your listeners

– taking care of you/wound, scab, scar

– extra sauce/show don’t tell, dialog, time, humor, sensory details, checking in with your body

What you get

A foolproof 5-step process to tell a compelling five-minute story.

Learn to connect with your inner self and with others.

Learn to use your voice and share it with the community.

Develop the skill of reimagining your present, which opens you to change and the future.

Who should attend

Women who want to tell a story with ease, share past experiences, impart knowledge, connect with, and contribute to their communities.

Program

Introductions

The science behind stories. Your brain not on story and your brain on story. Dr. Uri Hasson’s experiment and the connection between storytellers’ and story listeners’ brain activities during storytelling, and why storytelling is powerful.

The 5-step storytelling process— set-up, inciting incident, rising action, climax, resolution, and how to use each step.

Tell a 5-sentence story. Paired sharing. Share with the class.

Taking care of you, and your listeners—determining if you are scratching a wound, scab, or scar.

Show don’t tell—how show don’t tell taps into the senses and powers your story.

Using time—to ground the story, to move the story, to enrich the story by standing still.

Sensory detail—checking in with your body and using your six senses.

Voice—accents, dialog, sound, rhythm, humor

Tell your 5-sentence story using show don’t tell, time, sensory detail, and voice.

Paired sharing. Share with the class.

Questions

Mahani Zubedy, Facilitator       

When her kids left for college and it was quiet and still, Mahani Zubedy learned that the story she had been telling herself was not true. She began retelling her story and started StorySistas, a community of women who connect through stories. Mahani continues uncovering stories, hers, and others. She loves stories and feels blessed to have heard and learned from so many women.