First-Person True Storytelling

Friends in this workshop will generate story ideas, craft a true first-person spoken story, and share this story with others. By the end of the week, participants in this workshop should feel comfortable sharing a true, first-person, 5–7 minute story, without notes. The workshop will assist participants in generating personal story ideas, and then revising…

Workshop Description

Friends in this workshop will generate story ideas, craft a true first-person spoken story, and share this story with others.

By the end of the week, participants in this workshop should feel comfortable sharing a true, first-person, 5–7 minute story, without notes.

The workshop will assist participants in generating personal story ideas, and then revising those stories through the lenses of Plot, Character and Setting. The workshop will not cover other kinds of stories (fictions, myths, legends, stories about other people, from other than first-person perspective).

• Monday: Generating stories.
• Tuesday: Plot.
• Wednesday: CHaracter
• Thursday: Setting.
• Friday: Story performances.

Leader Experience

I’ve never led a workshop at the Gathering. I’ve lead several interactive workshops at Baltimore Yearly Meeting including “Pastoral Care at Your Meeting,” “Bringing Our Differences into the Light: Dealing with Conflict,” and “Christocentric & NonTheistic Friends: A Dialogue.” I’ve also facilitated Intergroup Dialogue classes at the University of Maryland, classes designed to bring a diverse group of students together to talk across differences in race, class, gender, sexual orientation & religion. I’ve also taken several weekend-long trainings and a semester-long class at University of Maryland as training for these dialogues and have supervised student dialogue facilitators.