Tag: conferences

  • Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling is YOURS

    Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling is YOURS

    It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary. Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening…

  • On the National Storytelling Network Blog: New Workshop on Interfaith Storytelling

    On the National Storytelling Network Blog: New Workshop on Interfaith Storytelling

    You probably had to be there… Raising a quizzical eyebrow, she speaks with feigned ignorance and asks the oh-so-pregnant-with-meaning question: “Now, Pam…What are you a Master of?” I take my cue…spread open my hands, raise eyes upward, and with a voice exuding a beatific awareness of the numinous, I answer…

  • Week…Just 1 Until the Rocky Mountain Storytelling Conference

    Week…Just 1 Until the Rocky Mountain Storytelling Conference

    The Rocky Mountain Storytelling 2014 Conference is one week away! Storytelling conferences are always a fantastic opportunity to connect, to learn from others (previous blog post!), to learn by doing, to network – and of course to have fun! Rocky Mountain Storytelling holds its annual Colorado conference, “Storytelling: Craft & Connection,” next…

  • Others – Learn from Them!

    Others – Learn from Them!

    When someone asks me for advice on how to get started with storytelling, I always answer, “Two things:” 1) “Tell as much and as often as you can” – you learn about yourself, about stories you like, about how to be in front of people…and 2) “Listen as much and…