Storytelling is how we frame and contextualise our experiences, history and culture. Oral language experience, listening, speaking and memory skills are enhanced through storytelling.

You can experience the delights and educational benefits of storytelling by booking the wonderful Tellers available through The Storytelling Garden. All the tellers are highly experienced and can enrich your curriculum with their unique skills and knowledge.

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Comments from Educators about the Storytellers...

I considered Gael's presentation at Frankston TAFE to be inspirational. Her use of voice, gestures and sound effects created for students a good visual picture. The weaving of personal and traditional stories was excellent. I definitely recommend Gael.
Jill Tacon, Frankston Campus, Chisolm Institute of TAFE

Gael, Thank you for your recent attendance at our MARC/MACC Conference. Your presentation was greatly appreciated. Everyone was spellbound from your first story. It will inspire some of our members to have a go at storytelling themselves.
Diana Shandley, Tarwin Valley Primary School

This is a note of appreciation on behalf of the preschool support program and the additional assistants to Cindy-Lee. I was so pleased that you were able to be the first workshop session on our inservice training day. It lifted the energy and gave us all a lot of pleasure. Later, people kept coming to me with comments about how they were remembering this or that sequence in a story as though they were still in the space that you had created for them to work in. Like the proverbial stone in the pond, this workshop in going to go on reverberating for a long time. Many thanks.
Del Nightingale, Coordinator Preschool Support Program,
Southern Metro Region, Brotherhood of St. Laurence.

Jackie is a real treasure. Her storytelling enchants children and adults alike. Every story pulses with character and life. She establishes an immediate rapport with her audience and holds them spellbound to the very end. This is storytelling at its very best.
Hanee Selvarajoo, Children's Services Librarian,
City of Greater Dandenong Libraries

Storytelling with Tiny Tots and Pre-Schoolers
Inspiring You to Tell 45 mins
Presentation that explores the use of props,puppets, stories and song to use with the 0-5 age group.

Working with Stories 90 mins
Telling stories in pairs and groups that demonstrate how many stories you already have to work with and activities to show you how you can go on to develop confidence and ability.

Storytelling Activities 3 hours
Selecting, creating & telling stories. This 3-hour workshop is designed to maximise participants' storytelling potential. Through demonstration, discussion, games and activities, workshop participants will be inspired and discover just how many stories they have to tell. The workshop can either focus on Pre-School Story-time or Telling to Primary Children and is perfect for Librarians, Early Childhood Educators and Primary Teachers.

Storytelling with Tiny Tots and Pre-Schoolers 3 hours
Stories told, stories shared, stories remembered, stories stories stories. You will leave this workshop with at least three stories ready to tell to the 0-5 age group and be inspired to start! Many ways to tell a treasure trove of stories.

Building metaphors - Solving Problems 90 mins
Got a bed-wetter? A thumb-sucker? A tantrum thrower? Discover how to construct a story that will allow your child to find his or her own solution to the problem.

Storytelling with Primary-aged Children
Learn and tell a story in one hour 90 mins
This workshop allows participants to explore some of the methods of learning a story and to reflect on which of the learning methods best matches his or her own style of learning.

Telling and Writing 2 hours
Donald Davis says that literacy is a second language - children learn to speak before they learn to write. In this workshop participants work with a traditional or personal story to explore the difference and reflect on the way working from one to another informs both processes. By the end of the session participants will have practised telling their stories, have completed a written outline and have the tools necessary to complete the work.

Storytelling for Teachers 3 hours
A combination of the two workshops outlined above, designed to show how storytelling can assist with literacy, language and listening skills, drama, socialisation etc. The focus of this session would be by arrangement.

Language, Listening and Lots of activities to use 3 hours
Activities to use with the children, to enhance their language literacy and story-creation skills. This workshop powers through a wide selection of story games and activities that can be variously combined in the classroom or library.

Building Metaphors - Building Resilience 90 mins
Bullying, untidiness, forgetfulness, blended families: discover how to construct a story that will allow your child to find his or her own solution to the problem.

Storytelling with Adolescents
Do you hear what I hear? 3 hours
The stories we hear as children take on meaning from the days and patterns of our lives. Listen again to some of the classic stories embedded in a narrative of an ordinary life. Then explore the stories you heard as a child and how they affected you. This session involves a study of metaphor and offers tools for discovering which stories are important to you and which stories may help your listeners make some sense of their lives.

Telling Personal Stories 3 hours
The stories within, the old tales, tales of our younger days - still so relevant for now. Learn how to assist your students in sculpting their life experience into story, creating personal tales for today to share.

The Spirit of Story: 3 hours
Advanced Storytelling Skills
Metaphor, transformative stories, the relevance of ancient stories in today's world. Participants' explore all this and their storytelling skills are challenged and enhanced.

Building Metaphors - Building Resilience 90 mins
Do you need to tackle environmental issues, subjects from a factual or scientific perspective, or just a new approach to an old theme? Are there group dynamic concerns or interpersonal communication skills that need developing? Why not tell us what you need and we will develop an appropriate program for you?

Get in touch with your inner fury…but I never get angry, do I? 2 hours
Stories to stimulate discussion and assist the whole class to share their stories.

Get in touch with your inner princess: how do I become the person I want to be? 2 hours
Stories of princesses to touch your heart, to recall your childhood, to give you pause, to think, to listen, for fun... helping your students discover who they wish to be.

Designer Workshops/ Seminar Series
What skills do you need to develop? Voice skills, stage craft, story creation? Ask and we can help. You can organise a single workshop or a series of seminars for your particular school or region. Why not call and ask how we can enrich your skills and curriculum?

PRICING**

**AN ADDITIONAL 20% BOOKING FEE (to a max. $100) MUST BE PAID WITHIN 14 DAYS TO SECURE YOUR BOOKING.

45-60 minutes $250
90 minutes $300
2 hours $400
3 hours $500

Seminar Series POA
1-10 seminars, over a year or a term

The Storytelling Garden
Ph: 03 9758 4751
Fax: 03 9758 4491

tania@storygarden.com

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