Getting young children to participate in the stories you tell them, harnesses their energy - energy that might otherwise have gone into wiggles and giggles - and uses it to engage them on a multi-sensory level. In this highly practical 3-hour workshop you will discover how to manage audience participation and how you can add it to almost any story.

There are many ways of telling stories, and using objects while telling is one of the most enjoyable, for both the teller and the audience. In this very practical workshop, you will be introduced to a number of stories that are enhanced by the use of objects. These may include: string stories, drawing stories, paper folding or tearing stories, handkerchief stories and sand stories. This workshop is suitable for anyone who wants to tell stories to young children.

If you are interested in storytelling, but don’t know where to start, this is the workshop for you. This nine-hour workshop (over two Saturdays) will give complete beginners a firm grounding in storytelling skills. This workshop is for anyone interested in learning to tell stories: whether at work or at home, to adults or children, just for fun, or as a step towards telling professionally.

Studies have found that one of the best predictors of later educational success is the number of interesting stories a child had been told. In this workshop you will discover how you can foster your child’s intellectual, emotional and social development and lay the groundwork for literacy and language learning through telling stories to your children.

Many children enjoy listening to stories, telling stories, reading stories, but too few enjoy writing them. Discover how you can harness that enthusiasm for stories and channel it into creative writing. This workshop will show how speaking, listening and reading activities can be woven into the writing process, to engage pupils in a holistic language learning environment.

There are many ways of telling stories, and using objects while telling is one of the most enjoyable, for both the teller and the audience. In this very practical workshop, you will be introduced to a number of stories that are enhanced by the use of objects. These may include: string stories, drawing stories, paper folding or tearing stories, handkerchief stories and sand stories. This workshop is suitable for anyone who wants to tell stories to young children.