Training
Download the Centre’s 2010 training and development programme.
The Scottish Storytelling Centre is the foremost provider of CPD-accredited storytelling
training for educational professionals and awards the first PDU in Storytelling Skills in
partnership with Newbattle Abbey College.
 The Scottish Storytelling Centre's training and development activity is grounded in a true philosophy of education. The aim is to 'bring out', affirm, encourage and develop people's latent potential. To achieve this, the Centre offers a wide range of opportunities for those wishing to develop their storytelling skills, whatever their age or ability, whether for fun or to bring new skills to their professional and community lives.
The Scottish Storytelling Centre's in-house Connecting with Stories programme offers an extensive and innovative range of CPD inservice days, skill development workshops and residential events for teaching, social work and care staff, volunteers, community and professional storytellers, and parents and carers.
We also provide tailor-made outreach storytelling visits and training workshops to suit your continuing professional and development needs, whatever your skills or experience, to be delivered at the Scottish Storytelling Centre or your own venue. Training is available in the form of half-day and full-day events, twilights, in-service days and weekend workshops.
Our in-house and outreach training workshops are devised and facilitated by professional storytellers who are highly experienced in working with all ages and groups, including children and adults with special needs. All professional storytellers chosen to lead workshops are selected according to their areas of expertise.
Training themes range from Telling to Tots for those working with the very young, to Reminiscence Tales for staff working with older people, and Storytelling in Organisations for those wishing to improve their own and their colleagues' creative leadership and communication skills.
A wide variety of people participate in the Centre's training programmes - teachers, librarians, country park rangers, visitor attraction managers, managers, tour guides, ministers and priests, social workers, care staff, nurses, parents and grandparents.
Please contact Joanna Bremner Smith at joanna@scottishstorytellingcentre.com or +44 (0)131 652 3272 for more information on training and CPD options.
Certificate in Storytelling Skills and Development
This certificate of attendance can be obtained through participation in four events across our March - September 2010 and October 2010 - April 2011 programmes. The General Certificate covers four events selected from any of the five themed areas. The Themed Certificate covers four events selected from within one of the themed areas (eg. Traditions and Skills).
Personal record forms are available here. Please note, all four events must fall within the 2010-11 programme.
Forthcoming Training and Development Events
Storytelling for Writers
Sat 12 June, 10am-1pm
Can old stories inspire new fiction? Award-winning writer and storyteller Lari
Don shows how myths, legends and traditional tales can inspire original
fiction, how they can help solve plot problems and overcome writers’ block,
and how telling old tales can strengthen your writing as well as your
presentation skills.
£17.50 (£15 Network members)
Intermediate Skills: Crafting and Voicing the Story
Sat 26 June, 10.30am-4.30pm
Join storyteller Janis Mackay to focus on how to make the story come alive, bringing to the telling the right rhythm, energy, pace and tone. Participants will look at where to draw in drama and gesture, and when to simply sit still and tell, helping the story live and move through you. Not suitable for beginners.
£32 (£26 Network members)
Beginning with Children: 3-6 Year Olds
Sat 4 September, 10am-1pm
It's not just the stories but the opening of minds, hearts and imaginations.
Join storyteller Bea Ferguson for a half day beginners' workshop introducing
the skills involved in sharing stories, songs and rhymes with 3-6 year olds.
£17.50 (£15 Network members)
Beginning with Children: 7-10 Year Olds
Sat 4 September, 2-5pm
How can you act as an enabler for creative expression and story sharing?
Join storyteller Senga Munro for a half day beginners' workshop introducing
the skills involved in building relationships and exploring experiences through
storytelling with 7-10 year olds.
£17.50 (£15 Network members)
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