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Paradigm Shifting for Better Understanding

Ability to spark and enhance critical synergy and creative energy by focusing on skills of observation, motivation and paradigm shifting with a team building emphasis.

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Building a Story From the Ground Up

The participants will learn the skills necessary to present an idea using a story that engages the minds and hearts of their prospective listeners. There will be lots of practical hands-on work that will teach ways to help tell stories effectively to their intended audience.

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Thinking Out of the Box

Learn to expand the role of storytelling from entertainment to educational. Collaborative discussions, Facilitator-led discussions, building on other's ideas in a team effort with activities to learn better listening skills and recognizing cues of others.
 

Paradigms/Props/Perspectives

Using stories to gain insight into how we see the world. Shifting our paradigms to interact more fully with each other. The workshop helps the individual find a fun way to better communication.

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Changing Paradigms

This is a workshop uses stories to gain great insight into how we see the world. By shifting our paradigms we can interact more fully with each other. Using props, puppets, and games to unleash our imagination and find a fun way to communicate our own personal story with others.

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Interaction through Themes

Using small touchstones and other tools, we will focus on a theme, learn to build a story and learn how to direct it towards a select audience.

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Find Your Voice

Find  ways to help tell stories effectively and find your personal style. There will be lots of practical hands-on work for you to do, with the opportunity to put your own spin on it. By the end of the workshop the groundwork for building and telling a story will be firmly in place.  Use storytelling as a fun learning tool to engage the minds and hearts of your listeners.

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De-stress & Relax

Learn how to relax and de-stress with some basic techniques. Good for people of all ages. Requires no fancy equipment, or preparation other than a few minutes of time and the willingness to practice.Available for businesses, schools & great for Senior Centers most workshop/presentations programs can be geared towards the needs of any organization.

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Storytelling Principles

This workshop allows people to focus on a theme, create small touchstones to use as tools and set about through the use of story  to encourage their listeners or audience to understand the theme and bring it into their lives.  Stories are  are broken down into the basic components and the participants are taught the skills to understand what a story is made up of and how to put one together.  Please wear comfortable clothes.  All material is supplied by instructor.

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Workshops/Presentations for the following groups:

Boscov's, League for Nursing Convention 2012, AARP Linden Chapter who wrote: “Thank you for coming to our Linden AARP Chapter 1894 and entertaining our members with your very informative slideshow presentation.”…  “It was interesting to hear that many things effect the way we feel and how we see the world so differently” -South Plainfield Library, First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, and Mother’s Center of Central NJ

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New The Wild West" Presentation

A new look at the old west using slides, historical facts, stories and characters
to enhance the experience. Adult Storytelling with Q&A after.

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Example Videos for Wild West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnMzvjSKHB0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDhwUaqBg-g

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Anti Bullying/Misconduct

“No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.”  -Aesop

This workshop is proactive rather than reactive to the issues of inappropriate behavior. Through interactive storytelling the participants look at and see where, why and when inappropriate behaviors occurs in the story. Participants get the opportunity to come up with alternatives that might make for a more positive outcome. Finally, the participants must take on a new behavior and choose ways to implement it over the following week. In the follow up workshop discussion of what transpired for participants is processed. This workshop incorporates  using story to change the paradigm in a positive way.

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“The students truly enjoyed their engaging experience that they encountered with Judy.
She told the students meaningful stories with an education theme.”
-Maria Melillo Teacher, Carteret Board of Education