Storytelling Offerings

Stories conjure our humanness, foster connection, and compel us. At the very essence of our lives and our work there are stories.

Exploring these narratives helps us to gain perspective, convey the significance and impact of what we do, and engage others. From conversations with friends to engaging others in our work; requesting support; promoting a product; motivating a team; or telling who we are now and where we are headed during times of transition, we are telling stories every day.

Yet how often do we take the time to look at how we tell the stories of our lives and how others hear them? What makes a story engaging? What makes someone want to listen? What makes our message really land?

In these interactive and engaging events, we will determine the stories we want to tell, learn and utilize techniques that help us effectively convey our stories, practice telling engaging stories, hear one another’s stories, and learn from one another what is effective in our storytelling.

Ways to Work with Leigh and Stories

Leigh works with individuals, groups, and communities delving into stories. Below are examples of ways individuals and groups work with Leigh.

• Engage with Leigh in Individualized Storytelling Consultations and Coaching to:

  • Practice and embolden your innate storytelling ability

  • Prepare for an upcoming talk or presentation

  • Develop ways to integrate storytelling practice into your work week and your life

  • Hone how you express your business or organization’s mission, vision, and message

• Hold a Storytelling Training for your Group to:

  • Foster understanding across roles

  • Strengthen your organizational message

  • Prepare for developing a video, marketing materials, or a social media messaging campaign

  • Demonstrate and magnify your grant’s impact

  • Foster shared clarity during times of transition

  • Make your strategic planning effort an active, alive process

  • Build a team ethic of understanding, collaboration, and engagement

  • Enhance community engagement and support the development of a culture of understanding

  • Humanize your pitch, your ask, your elevator speech

  • Create a training unique to you

• Plan a Storytelling Event for Your Community to:

  • Be a community that takes the time and makes the space to learn one another’s stories

  • Support a culture of understanding

  • Enhance your collective knowing of your community’s sense of place, history, and values

  • Engage in a really fun evening together that can become an annual event for your community

“Leigh’s workshop provides the safe space the budding storyteller needs to courageously pursue their story”

— Participant evaluation, Howard County Conservancy, 2018

Fill out the form below to get notified of the next event or reach out to Leigh to see about hosting a Storytelling Workshop or Program for your group.