Baba Jamal Koram is a force of nature in the African American Storytelling world - winner of the 2007 NSN circle of excellence award.

Ben Sota and the Zany Umbrella Circus have been traveling around the country for over fifteen years to such places as the white house...

Tingle is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a sought-after speaker and storyteller, and an award-winning author of Native American fiction and folklore.

Jay O’Callahan is one of the worlds most famous and recognized storytellers. His works are available online for sale. He has performed world-wide.

Elaine speaks at length of how to use and how she has used storytelling in traditional medical situations to heal the sick and effect the disturbed.

At this point in time, I understand clearly and fondly what a gift I received when I came to storytelling. The gift of generous mentors who encouraged me to find and develop my own voice rather than adopt theirs.

Adult listeners at storytelling events are often surprised by the recognition that storytelling evokes. Listeners tell us,Gee, I haven't thought about that in ages... I'd forgotten what it was like to... I remember when... and so on.

A very lively discussion on storytelling in the 20th century - How to use podcasting, blogging, website assistance, mp3 sales and email to support your storytelling practice.

Jack Zipes writes... At their best, the storytelling of fairy tales constitute the most profound articulation of the human struggle to form and maintain a civilizing process.

This is a traditional way of performing storytelling back when storytellers worked in the marketplace in the street or would travel from home to home singing for their supper. Largely I do this in the context of a Renaissance or fantasy festival but I have done storytelling in the modern street.

When telling for young audiences, even the most brilliant story is vulnerable to young audiences if the situation is compromised, or your delivery is not ideal for the setting. In this discussion, Alex reveals how his wild and mesmerizing style is methodically built, brick by brick.

Steve Denning you used storytelling to reform the world bank. Good business cases are developed through the use of numbers, but they are typically approved on the basis of stories. A story can translate dry, abstract numbers into compelling pictures of how the deep yearnings of decision influencers can come true.

Mark Wagler built up a theory of narrative pedagogy, and a set of teaching practices that helped students experience their lives and the world around them as a story. In this podcast we talk about reshaping classrooms with narrative pedagogy or storytelling in teaching a practice to build an effective learning community.

Storyteller Brother Blue appeared on the Art of Storytelling with Children to talk about street storytelling and storytelling from the heart. I am very proud to bring you this conversation about street storytelling and everything else related to storytelling with storyteller Brother Blue.

Steve Otto describes how the 'Chicken festival' started a traveling storytelling festival designed to help spread the art of storytelling. Traveling to different areas of the state every two years.

In this interview with the Reverend Victoria Burdick, M. Div Hospice Chaplain - Celebrant we discuss how storytelling can be used in wedding ceremonies to create the ceremony. We also discuss how storytelling is used in hospice work.

Kevin Cordi is the co-author, with Judy Sima, of Raising Voices: Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes and according to the National Storytelling Network, “the first full time high school storytelling teacher in the country.” and is the founder of both Voices across America Youth Storytelling Project and the Special Interest Group now called Y.E.S. (Youth, Educators, and Storytellers.)

Stories are a natural for camps. Camps offers an opportunity to create a meaningful and memorable connection to the outdoor environment. Educational research suggests that this connection to the outdoors creates a highly charged environment that facilitates learning.

Improvisational storytelling is a teaching tool that is a cross between storytelling that I have been doing for years and improv techniques I learned in my college days. A conversation-with Stephen Hollen about using improvisational storytelling with children.

Jim Flanagan says that to tell a story, you must write it down. Before you tell it, you must have a point of reference, an outline, and then scratching a script. This is the beginning of using writing and storytelling with children in schools to teach the art of creating stories.

Judith Black says that adults edit and censor the stories they share with children. Making them solely out of our wants and objectives instead of based in our children’s needs, might result in robbing them of the greatest tool of transformation we have.

The Truth About Marketing. Most of the mass marketing we see around us is probably not good marketing - and it’s certainly nothing like what would make sense for a storyteller.

Lyn Ford says that breaking into storytelling isn’t quite the description that fits the beginnings of her career. It was more like leaping off the edge of a cliff, with all the materials to build a strong glider that would carry her wherever she should go, but no blueprint or directions on how to build the thing.

What we need to investigate and learn together is healing. In a time of great sickness nothing else should concern us. Healing the earth, healing society, healing our communities, healing ourselves.

Probably we are all aware of the cultural confusions and misconceptions that become evident daily in this world of instant updates. These errors in sensitivity can hurt feelings, and cause outright insults and rage in the offended.