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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.
To help
direct you to the right workshop for your organization Arianna
has notated next to the title of each session an intended
audience(s): Educators, Librarians, Health Care Providers,
Social Workers, or All Level of Storytellers. However, these
are only suggestions as many of the workshops if adjusted
are applicable to all categories.
Put
the Body Back in Storytelling
Playing
Through History [Educators, Librarians, Storytellers]
Changing
I Can't to I Can
Opening
Doors for Bi-lingual/ Mono-lingual Students [Educators,
Librarians, Storytellers]
Writing
Stories from
Our Imagination [Educators, Librarians, Storytellers]
Wipe
Out
the Cobwebs of Burnout
Your
Bag O' Tricks
[Social Workers, Health Care Providers]
Stories
to Remember By [Storytellers, Social Workers, Health
Care Providers]
The
Healing Story [Storytellers, Social Workers, Health Care
Providers]
Coaching:
How Can Your Body Compliment Your Words? [Storytellers]
Coaching:
How to be Culturally Sensitive to Your Audience and Your
Story? [Librarians, Educators, Storytellers]
Listening
to Other People's Stories
Key
Questions: Unlocking the Gate
Laughter
as
a Healer
Documentary
Storytelling: Using words and photographs to tell Our Story
[Educators, Librarians, Storytellers]
Musical
Stories [Educators, Librarians, Storytellers]
Indian
Folk
Forms, a lecture demonstration
[Educators, Librarians, Storytellers]
Workshops
Created In Collaboration with Other Artists or Arts OrganizationAccessing
Our Abilities: Teaching People with or without Disabilities
[Educators, All Storytellers]
Getting
In: Incorporating Curricular Standards into School Programs
[Parents, Educators, All Storytellers]
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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Playing Through History [Educators, Librarians, Storytellers]
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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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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Opening Doors for Bi-lingual/ Mono-lingual Students [Educators,
Librarians, Storytellers]
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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Writing Stories from Our Imagination [Educators, Librarians,
Storytellers]
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 [Social Workers, Health Care Providers]
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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Stories to Remember By [Storytellers, Social Workers, Health
Care Providers]
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 [Storytellers, Social Workers, Health Care
Providers]
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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Coaching: How Can Your Body Compliment Your Words? [Storytellers]
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? [Librarians, Educators, Storytellers]
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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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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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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Documentary Storytelling: Using words and photographs to tell
Our Story [Educators, Librarians, Storytellers]
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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Musical Stories [Educators, Librarians, Storytellers]
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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Indian Folk Forms, a lecture demonstration [Educators, Librarians,
Storytellers]
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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Workshops Created In Collaboration with Other Artists or Arts
OrganizationAccessing
Our Abilities: Teaching People with or without Disabilities
[Educators, All Storytellers]
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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Getting In: Incorporating
Curricular Standards into School Programs
[Parents, Educators, All Storytellers]
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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