How to Tell Your Story

Storytelling can help you strengthen your confidence, enhance your personal power, and promote healing. This workshop* will teach you to transform your personal experience into a story through twelve easy activities.

As a certified WHEEL trainer, Betsy is proud to offer this workshop for teens and adults. (WHEEL is Wholistic Health Education and Empowerment for Life.)

Participants will:

• Understand the hero/heroine journey and recognize its stages
• Increase self-awareness through artwork and imagery
• Become more comfortable with storytelling
• Understand archetypes and basic story structure
• Demonstrate the ability to work with archetypes
• Leave with a new personal story and a deeper appreciation for storytelling.

* This workshop requires a minimum of 7 hours to complete. It can be scheduled to suit your training needs. Individual workbooks are required.

Use the Power of Story for Prevention

Image via WikipediaThis workshop series discusses and demonstrates the power of the spoken work for prevention work. If you are a prevention specialist, teacher, youth worker, or concerned about substance abuse prevention, this workshop will provide you both information and experiential exercises that you can duplicate in a classroom or group setting.

The first component focuses on:

• Storytelling as an art form
• The “inner workings” of story
• Stories and the unconscious mind
• Storytelling and resiliency
• The role of the listener
• Relationship between storyteller & listener
• Telling your stories and finding your voice

The second component focuses on:

• Program Design
• Implementation
• Follow-up activities
• Sample stories
• Story selection
• Tips for effective telling
• Pitfalls to avoid

Learning how to soar… On borrowed hope

This workshop offers a unique blend of personal narrative and resiliency training. Life can be full of challenges and obstacles which do not have to “destroy” us or the possibilities ahead.

Betsy shares a selection of her life struggles and lessons learned. She teaches potent tools that contribute to resiliency and can bring self-empowerment and emotional health.

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Tapping the Teller Within

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This fun, interactive workshop is for teachers, educators, and other professionals interested in developing basic storytelling skills.

As human beings, we are “storied creatures.” Our daily lives are filled with stories… Learn to use storytelling as a powerful tool for teaching, in the helping professions, and in business, too.

Women's Story Works

This singular story workshop may include a performance component. Details to follow.

Women's Story Circle

Join us for a Women's Story Circle this fall and winter. Details be announced.

The Mythic Path to Resiliency & Understanding

This experiential workshop will demonstrate how the classic hero/heroine journey framework provides understanding and tools to teach resiliency skills.

Be prepared to hear a story or two… shaped from personal life experience and crafted into modern-day teaching tales. During our time together, we will walk the mythic path and explore how it mirrors our current journey. See how it can be utilized with youth and adults to re-frame their life experiences, and teach resiliency and other life skills.