Workshop Schedule

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS (scroll down for complete information and links to register)

STORIFY: Maximize your message and power up presentations through story
Thursday feb 6, 2025, 1-4 pm EST ONLINE

story mining and development: tAKE YOUR TRUE STORY FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE
fRIDAYS MARCH 7, 14 AND 21, 2025 10 - AM -12:30 PM IN pORT JEFFERSON, ny

Research shows that a well-told tale has a greater impact on listeners or workshop participants than a lecture or sharing of facts. Stories are the most powerful way to communicate creatively and persuasively about ideas and to share information with clients, colleagues and communities. They convey authenticity and are essential delivery systems for ideas and the message we want listeners to absorb. In this workshop we will discuss ways to integrate facts, data and information into a true story. We will explore techniques for mining true experiences that can be used to communicate the heart of a presentation as well as inspire and illuminate an audience. The workshop is an opportunity to get inspiration and a solid footing for the use of story in professional communication, learn about the research showing the power of story as a delivery system for facts and information, and explore ideas that will work in your professional domain.

This course is appropriate for corporate trainers, business leaders, professionals in every area of health care or any other human service related field, and anyone who has information to share with clients, colleagues or the community they serve.

Our lives are like a book that is still being written. With that books are chapters. Within each chapter, are scenes and characters. These are the  stories of our lives. Stories are not only the best way to share about our lives and the impact of our experiences, they have a reach far beyond that to the people who hear them. Knowing how to make the story shine in the telling is a powerful communication skill. This workshop is a hands-on learning experience. We will use story-mining exercises to discover the story in real-life experience and the fundamental skills of crafting it for a professional presentation or performance in a show, workshop, or meeting with your clients, colleagues or community. 

Sometimes these stories are about significant events and heroic struggles, sometimes they are about unexpected awakenings in the course of an ordinary day. The power of the story is in the “before-and-after” picture we are able to paint for a listener. and taking them through an emotional arc step by step.

This workshop provides fun, engaging exercises that help discover the stories that lie in true, lived experiences by looking at ordinary and extraordinary life experiences through the storytelling lens. We will apply the tools of story development and discover different approaches to sharing it.

We will actively engage with specific techniques for shaping a story, choosing details, using imagery metaphor and humor, and deploy the 5 beats of narrative structure. Each participant will have an opportunity to identify at least 1 story to develop and discuss an approach to it. If time permits and the group is interested we can discuss a variety of approaches to the same story for use in different settings. 
INSTRUCTOR: Jude Treder-Wolff LCSW, CPAI

Jude Treder-Wolff was interviewed for Authority Magazine on ways to avoid hustle culture and create a new sustainable work paradigm. Improv comedy and joy are part of the equation. Here are her 5 tips in a 10-minute video. You can read the interview on this link

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