Category Educational Resources

Taking the Stage; using the stage to help your audience visualize the story, and a recap of the basic skills of storytelling.

Gestures; experiment with movement to help convey the story.

Engaging the Audience; how to involve your audience and let it help you shape the tale.

Timing; the role of timing in storytelling, with group exercises to experiment with its impact.

Composition; the function of description, narrative and speech in composing a story, introducing ‘firework’ moments and a pictorial way to show the developing patterns.

Structure; stories have different ‘shapes’ (circular, there-and-back, nested, envelope, linear), group exercises to help identify these and use the shape so you tell the tale your own way.

Characterization; Whole and small group exercises to develop your characters and help your listeners distinguish between them.

Repetition and Sequences; why these are an important part of oral storytelling, and opportunities to practice creating phrases help your audience listen and understand.

Speech; group exercises to develop conversations between characters to add interest to your stories.

Sensations; sound, taste, emotion, sight, smell and touch. Group exercises to get all those descriptive phrases into your storytelling.

Relocation; reset a story in a familiar place, then turn victim into villian. Play games to generate scary words.

The Fundamentals; curating the space for your group to work in, and a visualisation exercise making a story out of a simple song.