Storytelling Workshop

Stories conjure our humanness, foster connection, and compel us. At the very essence of our lives and our work there are stories.

Exploring these narratives helps us to gain perspective, convey the significance and impact of what we do, and engage others. From conversations with friends to engaging others in our work; requesting support; promoting a product; motivating a team; or telling who we are now and where we are headed during times of transition, we are telling stories every day.

Yet how often do we take the time to look at how we tell the stories of our lives and how others hear them? What makes a story engaging? What makes someone want to listen? What makes our message really land?

In this interactive and engaging workshop we will determine the stories we want to tell, learn and utilize techniques that help us effectively convey our stories, practice telling engaging stories, and learn from one another what is effective in our storytelling.

• Participants Will Come Away With:

  • Practical techniques involved in telling a story well

  • Practice developing, delivering, and incorporating feedback on a story of their choice

  • Enhanced appreciation of the importance of sharing our stories with one another to foster understanding, camaraderie, and engagement in our work

• This Workshop is for You if You Would Like to:

  • Explore your innate ability to effectively convey a message through stories

  • Connect with and delve into the story of your work or community engagement

  • Dedicate a morning to experiencing how sharing stories can support you, your team, and your mission in the work you do

• Date, Time, and Location Information:

  This workshop does not currently have a set date.

This workshop does not currently have a set date. Fill out the form below to get notified of the next event or reach out to Leigh to see about hosting a Storytelling Workshop for your group.

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“Leigh’s workshop provides the safe space the budding storyteller needs to courageously pursue their story”

— Participant evaluation, Howard County Conservancy, 2018

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Ways to Work with Leigh and Stories

Leigh works with individuals, groups, and communities delving into stories. Below are examples of reasons individuals and groups contact Leigh.

• Engage with Leigh in Individualized Storytelling Consultations and Coaching to:

  • Practice and embolden your innate storytelling ability

  • Prepare for an upcoming talk or presentation

  • Develop ways to integrate storytelling practice into your work week and your life

  • Hone how you express your business or organization’s mission, vision, and message

• Hold a Storytelling Training for your Group to:

  • Foster understanding across roles

  • Strengthen your organizational message

  • Prepare for developing a video, marketing materials, or a social media messaging campaign

  • Demonstrate and magnify your grant’s impact

  • Foster shared clarity during times of transition

  • Make your strategic planning effort an active, alive process

  • Build a team ethic of understanding, collaboration, and engagement

  • Enhance community engagement and support the development of a culture of understanding

  • Humanize your pitch, your ask, your elevator speech

  • Create a training unique to you

• Plan a Storytelling Event for Your Community to:

  • Be a community that takes the time and makes the space to learn one another’s stories

  • Support a culture of understanding

  • Enhance your collective knowing of your community’s sense of place, history, and values

  • Engage in a really fun evening together that can become an annual event for your community