Telling Our Stories: A Storytelling Workshop for Adult Beginners

Telling Our Stories: A Storytelling Workshop for Adult Beginners

With Chelsea Pemberton

Fridays: 1-3 PM

March 24, 31, April 7 & 14, 2023

Suggested donation: $5-$10 per class day if you are able (donations go to our future teachers fund to allow us to offer classes after our current grant runs out.

For covid safety we require mask wearing.

Stories save lives. Hearing them, connecting with them, and sharing our own, strengthens relationships, resiliency, and overall well-being. Stories are mirrors reflecting our own experiences back to us allowing us to gain new insight and healing. They are windows to lives outside of our own allowing us to honor new perspectives and enhance our ability to empathize with others.

You are invited to meet for 4 weeks in a safe, confidential, and nurturing space where you will learn that we are all born storytellers. Through games, exercises, partner work, and practice we will discover stories we want to tell and fine tune the traditional and personal stories we long to share.

This workshop is ideal for

• those who hope to feel more comfortable communicating in public
• parents/grandparents/caregivers wanting to tell stories with the children in their lives
• hopeful performers
• people who have lived experiences worthy of sharing (pssst…that’s everyone!)

Materials:

Your preferred note taking tools

Willingness to share and support fellow participants

Chelsea Pemberton, MLIS is a  storyteller, poet, librarian, educator, and developmental bibliotherapist with a particular focus on early childhood, social-emotional development, and helping parents engage with their kids through stories. She offers personalized book consultations and workshops at Hummingbird Studios and recommends new and wonderful picture books at https://chelseapemberton.substack.com/.

She grew up visiting her grandparents on Whidbey Island and now lives in the house her grandfather built overlooking Puget Sound.