Storytelling

Stories conjure our humanness, foster connection, and compel us.

At the very essence of all our work, there are stories.

From messaging, to requesting support, to engaging and connecting as a team, to telling who we are now and where we are headed, we are telling stories everyday.

Yet what makes a story engaging? 

What makes someone want to listen? 

What makes our message really land? 

What makes us memorable?

Leigh works with individuals, groups, and communities to:

  • Identify the stories they want to tell

  • Feel empowered to access their innate storytelling ability

  • Claim the space to share these tales with one another and therein develop their stories, shared understanding, and connection

Her storytelling trainings are crafted to achieve a group’s specific goals from honing messaging to building a team ethic.

Leigh highly values this component of her work for she has witnessed how these events help participants feel empowered to bring more of their full selves to their work together and support one another in doing the same.

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

Example Recordings and Press from Storytelling Workshops and Events

Below you will find footage and press from recent storytelling workshops and events. These workshops and events were designed for participants interested in working on developing their storytelling capacity and for communities taking the time and making the space to hear one another’s stories.