Changing Paradigms

This is a workshop for both educators and storytellers alike. Using stories to gain great insight into how we see the world and shifting our paradigms to 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.

 

Find Your Voice

Use storytelling as a fun learning tool to engage the minds and hearts of your listeners.  Find out ways to help tell stories effectively. Everyone will be so caught up in the fun they won't know that they are actually learning important aspects of putting together a story. 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 ground work for building and telling a story will be firmly in place.  How to use props and puppets will be included.

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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.  Some stories are told to participants and then are broken down into the basic components of a store. (Exp. Plot, conclusion, characters, etc.) Teaching the skills to understand what a story is made up of and hoe 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

 

Antibullying

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

-Aesop

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This two part kindness workshop is proactive rather than reactive to the issues of bullying. Through participation in interactive storytelling the students look at and see where, why and when bullying and unkindness occurs in the story. They then get the opportunity to come up with alternatives that might make for a more positive outcome. Finally, the students do five acts of kindness over the following week and write a story about one of them. This workshop incorporates language arts skills as well as addressing the issue of bullying by changing 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, 4th Grade Teacher, Carteret Board of Education

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“The theme of kindness truly spoke to the students. They took the assignment very seriously and were constantly talking about how they could show an act of kindness.”

Sharon Christie, Reading Teacher, Carteret Board of Education