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Using storytelling and other forms of art in the classroom,
the office, a community center, or a health care facility
has proven to be an empowering and educational tool
for both the teller/ teacher and the listener/student.
The arts have been shown to improve self-confidence,
crisis management, efficiency, listening skills, cooperation,
critical/creative thinking skills, and literacy.
All
workshops can be adjusted address specific organizational
or personal needs as necessary. In addition, Arianna
is accustomed to working with a wide range of physical
and mental abilities; therefore she is able to adapt
her teaching to suit a variety of learning styles and
abilities.
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A single
session for Adults is a recommended minimum of one
and one-half hours. There is no maximum, as each
of these single workshops can be turned into a half-day seminar,
a weekly class or a weekend intensive. The Artist will supply
a majority of the instruments and/or props needed for the
sessions.
Accessing Our Abilities: Teaching People With or Without Disabilities
A Taste of Storytelling
Changing I Can't to I Can
Coaching: How Can Your Body Compliment Your Words?
Coaching: How to Be Culturally Sensitive to Your Audience and Your Story?
Collaged Stories
Documentary Storytelling: Using Words and Photographs To Tell Our Story
Discovering the Power of the Written Word
Empowered Math Understanding = (Storytelling plus Dance) plus Math
Explaining Science Through Story
Indian Folk Forms, a Lecture Demonstration
Getting In: Incorporating Curricular Standards into School Programs
Key Questions: Unlocking the Gate
Laughter as a Healer
Listening to Other People's Stories
Musical Stories
Opening Doors for Bi-lingual/Mono-lingual Students
Put the Body Back in Storytelling
Play and Tell
Playing Through History
Stories in Motion
Stories to Remember By
The Healing Story
The Adventure of Story-reading/Homework-doing
Writing Stories From Our Imagination
Wipe Out the Cobwebs of Burnout
Your Bag O' Tricks
 Accessing
Our Abilities: Teaching People with or without Disabilities
Presented
in collaboration with Open Circle Theatre Many practitioners
feel at a disadvantage when faced with a person who has a
disability. Discover ways you can adjust your language to
involve students with varying abilities and to challenge yourself
to stretch what you might think of as their limits. Finally,
walk away with exercises that you can adapt to the diverse
circumstances you face.
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A Taste of Storytelling
Discover
what it takes to perform a story from memory. Learn specific
storytelling techniques that you can use in the future to
give a speech, tell a story or even perform in a play. Create
the beginning of and structure for an entire story that you
can share with a friend, a child, or at a performance venue.
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Changing I Can't to I Can
How many
times have you wanted to throw your hands up in frustration
when a child or an adult says I can't? Play a series of specially
designed games for either one -on -one or large group settings.
Discover what language choices encourage change in their attitude.
Arianna always tries to remember that flexibility counts for
everything and that not all phrases or games will work each
time.
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Coaching: How Can Your Body Compliment Your Words?
Everyone
is a dancer. We all communicate with our bodies whether we
are angry, excited or sad. Together we will find your strengths
as a "Silent Talker or Dancer." Discover how the gestures,
the stance and the moves you create can only increase the
audience's understanding of your story.
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Coaching: How to be Culturally Sensitive to Your Audience
and Your Story?
What is
culturally sensitive and what feels just too politically correct?
After years of traveling around the world in different communities
and making many mistakes, Arianna has worked hard to understand
what is appropriate or inappropriate for one group or in a
given story. It is important to find the right balance for
you as a storyteller and a teacher. Ask questions about and
spend time crafting a story you hope to tell to a wide variety
of audiences.
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Collaged Stories
Have you
ever torn out pages from a magazine and made a collage? Learn
new techniques for creating a collage out of a wide- variety
of mediums: paint, photographs, magazines, tissue paper, ink
... Depending on the age group we would use different advanced
techniques for creating a large-scale mural. Remember: our
mural will tell a story!
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Documentary Storytelling: Using words and photographs to tell
Our Story
Stories
and photographs have served as a vehicle for personal and
historical reflection in the past and present. Look at how
in the course of history people have documented their lives
through photographs and written word. Create your own short
photo-documentary that either reflects a subject you have
studied or a piece of your own family history.
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Discovering the Power of the Written Word
Many students need support in developing their ability to
read confidently and to develop their written voice. Storytelling,
drama, dance and creative writing can both enhance and motivate
children's understanding of high level vocabulary words, build
self-confidence, strengthen literacy skills, develop self-respect
and create positive group dynamics. Additionally, by dramatizing
their own stories, people discover the excitement and power
in knowing how to transform a spoken language into a written
story.
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Empowering Math Understanding = (Storytelling plus Dance) plus Math
Many students need support when the time comes for them to synthesis their math learning and respond accurately to a question. In our 21st century classrooms, we are also dealing with a diverse community who enter school with a variety of skills and abilities in both math and language arts. Word problems require a certain level of ability in math and reading comprehension. Storytelling and dance can both enhance and motivate children’s understanding of math, increase their higher level thinking, build self-confidence, strengthen literacy skills, develop self-respect, level the learning and create positive group dynamics. As the educators participate in the workshop they will create a series of best practice specially designed games for exploring mathematically concepts.
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Explaining Science through Story
In ancient
times, people explained a scientific phenomenon with a story.
Through process drama exercises and storytelling, you will
discover techniques for dramatizing the how's and why's of
science. You could explore either a specific scientific process
or answer an overarching question such as "Why the Desert
is expanding?"
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Indian Folk Forms, a Lecture Demonstration
Play with
instruments and touch artifacts from small villages all over
India. Listen to a short story, watch a documentary film and
participate in a dance demonstration on different types of
Traditional Indian Art Forms. Walk away with a new familiarity
with a culture perhaps different than your own.
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Getting In: Incorporating
Curricular Standards into School Programs
Presented
in Collaboration with Diane Macklin. Standardized testing
and increasing curriculum demands have created an opportunity
for storyteller's to prove the importance of the arts to a
child's education. Learn techniques for working with school
communities to incorporate curriculum into programs and communicate
effective with school officials.
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Key Questions: Unlocking the Gate
A question
can create a safe environment, encourage communication and
increase learning. Find out what style of questioning encourages
you to unlock your gates of communication. Listen to how other
people phrase the same sentence. Design a series of different
techniques to promote an open environment and to raise the
level of understanding in your life/ work setting.
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Laughter as a Healer
Art often
helps people to overcome personal difficulties. We will discover
the art of the "Smart Clown" and create our own personal physical
comedies. This work is based on my years with Bansi Kaul's
renowned theatre troupe, Rang Vidushak, in Bhopal, India.
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Listening to Other People's Stories
Listening
can be a difficult task. In the days of multi-tasking, we
often find ourselves listening while doing or thinking of
something else. Participate in the process of compassionate
listening and reflective response. Try a series of exercises
that will increase your listening skills and understanding
of the needs of your partner, students or clients.
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Musical Stories
Discover
new ways to tell stories. Turn off the words and discover
how sounds can carry the images. How can you create the picture
of a young girl lost in the desert without showing it with
your body or specific vocabulary? Turn the words back on and
reveal how much more powerful your story can become with the
combination of music, dance and spoken word.
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Opening Doors for Bi-lingual/Mono-lingual Students
We are
living in an international community. Many of our students
and audience members come to us knowing another language.
Sometimes they speak English and other times they are in the
process of learning. How can you encourage this process and
invite them to feel at ease in your classroom or library or
...? Learn different exercises that you can use in your multi-lingual
environment.
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Put the Body Back In Storytelling
Empowerment
through Voice and Movement: Jump-start your creative mind
and body. Step outside your boundaries through the art of
play. Tell a story with or without words. Foster a sense of
confidence in yourself and others during a workshop, performance,
or even daily interaction. Learn a set of exercises and a
story that you can adapt to diverse circumstances.
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Play and Tell
Re-tell
your favorite stories while dancing, singing, and playing
instruments from around the world. Through the art of play,
deepen your children or your own understanding of story sequencing;
increase their language development; knowledge of other cultures;
their ability to work as a team.
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Playing Through History
Enact
history by telling its' story. During our session(s) together,
learn several activities that can be used to create a safe
creative environment and to deepen your students' understanding
of history. Take away an effective set of curriculum-based
techniques that not only include the standards, but also increase
your students' love of learning.
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Stories in Motion
Contradiction Dance and Story Tapestries will team up to
bring this event to your venue as a workshop or residency.
Discover new techniques that you can use in the future to
give a speech, tell a story or even perform in a play or a
dance concert. Learn how to integrate creative writing, story-telling,
and dance skills into one cohesive experience. Students perform
their own "Story in Motion" as a final presentation event.
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Stories to Remember By
Art often
helps a person to remember the past and heal the cracks in
memory. As individuals and as a group, we will create a memory
quilt of stories and images from the past and present. Discover
how adventurous your past is. Arianna's Grandmother told her
"I have no stories to tell." Four hours later, Arianna was
still listening to stories about raising a family during WWII.
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The Healing Story
Have you
ever searched for a long time for the "right" story? Stories,
both personal and folk tales can serve as a bridge between
feelings of anger, sadness and happiness. Work with a team
of people to hone your instincts and to compile a list of
stories for those difficult moments when you are not sure
what to say. Take with you several different key stones for
the many bridges you build in your work and daily life.
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The Adventure of Story-reading/Homework-doing
Your goal
as a parent is that your child will want to study. It helps
when you begin this process even before they go to school.
However, once they begin school how do you create an exciting
learning environment for young children and teens? Plan specific
activities that address your child's individual issues because
every student has different needs. Help them realize their
strengths and work with them on their weaknesses.
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Writing Stories from Our Imagination
Your students
are struggling with reading and writing. Learn several activities
that can be used to build vocabulary, increase critical thinking
skills, teach story sequencing and encourage creative writing.
Walk away with an effective set of curriculum-based techniques
that not only include the standards, but also increase your
students' love of reading and writing. This workshop can be
tailored to teach teachers a creative method for comparing
and contrasting stories, teaching folk tales and basic writing
techniques.
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Wipe out the Cobwebs of Burnout
Feeling
slow as you move through the day? Jump-start your creative
mind and body. Dance around the room. Draw out your frustrations.
Sing a song to make you laugh or a quiet song to help you
reflect. Reconnect with the part of you that wants to swing
so high that you touch the stars. Walk away with a set of
exercises you can do for yourself everyday for a few minutes
or on those rare occasions for a good hour that can prevent
or heal burnout.
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Your Bag O' Tricks
Besides
the medical techniques you use, everyone has a different bag
o' tricks to help a patient feel more comfortable or calm
down a family. Using storytelling and the arts in a hospital
environment has proven to be an empowering and healing tool
for both the artist/health care provider and the listener/
patient. Learn several activities that you can do in the few
minutes you might have or for the moment when you have more
time with a patient.
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