COURSES,
WORKSHOPS
AND EVENTS
WORKSHOPS
AND EVENTS
Will you tell us a story? - Storytelling Course
This is a course for anyone who is interested in learning how to apply oral storytelling in a language teaching context: language teachers, educators, storytellers who work with language learners, or even parents / home educators.
We will specifically focus on stories, techniques and activities to use with children, but that can easily be adapted to teach other age groups.
Oral storytelling as playful pedagogy - Alastair K Daniel // Workshops 2025-2026
Classroom oral storytelling is a social activity between teller and listener(s) that, in a playful and supportive context, can provide learners with opportunities to shape and reshape their own tales, drawing on (and developing) their own understandings of the world as they do so. Exploiting the characteristics of play in this way, learners connect with others and explore shared histories, attitudes and values. In this workshop, having distinguished oral storytelling from other spoken word practices, participants will engage in supportive and playful activities that emphasise oral storytelling as a process of meaning-making.
Let's make a star story together! - Despina Ariou // Workshops 2025-2026
Look at the sky, look at the stars, look at the constellations up there! So many stories were born by looking at the stars and the shapes they form by linking them. So, why not create a new one together? Let yourself be guided by Despina’s knowledge and passion for star stories and myths, and join us to create your very own stars story!
When Stories Speak: Folktales and Drama in the EFL Classroom - Evi Karydi // Workshops 2025-2026
This hands-on workshop shows how the Palestinian folktale Milk is for Milk and Water is for Water can spark active language learning. Through drama techniques—teacher-in-role, thought-tracking, and collective retelling—participants explore how stories foster communication, creativity, and intercultural understanding. Leave with practical, low-prep strategies for joyful, story-rich EFL teaching.
Be playful, be creative: Storymaking activities for you, me and everybody - Simona Stambazzi // Workshops 2025 - 2026
Have you ever noticed that the more creative things you do, the easier it gets to be creative? Creativity is a skill, and it can be honed and nurtured in ourselves and our students. In this workshop, Simona will share some of her favourite storymaking activities to create new stories and play with existing ones - drama, mimes, games, words and pictures will spark our imagination and help us play… and create!
Storytelling as a Means of Social Emotional Learning - Rasheedat Sadiq // Workshops 2025 - 2026
The workshop will focus on the importance of stories as a tool for building social emotional learning(SEL) and connecting storytelling to the five core SEL competencies of self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, social awareness and relationship skills.
Participants will have the opportunity to practice techniques which can be used to promote SEL such as story exchanges, using an emotions map, making connections, POV Shift, Plot Path and role play. Breakout sessions, followed by general reflection encourage adaptation to individual contexts.
The session involves engaging strategies that can be integrated into classroom and home routines to enhance social-emotional growth.
Personal and creative storytelling: telling our stories - David Heathfield // Workshops 2025 - 2026
Storytelling is a deeply creative part of being human. We learn about ourselves from the stories we are told and the stories we tell. The classroom is a perfect environment for teachers and students to tell stories about our own lives and experiences.
In this practical online workshop we’ll explore playful and fulfilling activities which are designed to build students' confidence and fluency in personal storytelling.
Our students can get a clear sense of themselves as creators of their own stories and, at the same time, they learn to communicate more creatively.
Storytelling in Education - Global Online Conference
8 highly interactive sessions led by teachers and storytellers from all over the world with experience in applying storytelling in learning contexts. Come, enjoy yourself and learn about how to use storytelling for educational purposes.
Will you tell us a story? - Storytelling Course
This is a course for anyone who is interested in learning how to apply oral storytelling in a language teaching context: language teachers, educators, storytellers who work with language learners, or even parents / home educators.
We will specifically focus on stories, techniques and activities to use with children, but that can easily be adapted to teach other age groups.
‘Create!’: Telling stories to kids pt.3 - Pictures and crafts
In this third workshop we will focus on how we can integrate pictures and crafts in our telling (sometimes to make it easier for our students to understand the story, when working as a language teacher), and how we can get our students to use pictures and crafts to remember and re-tell a story, or simply to have fun.
‘Play!’: Telling stories to kids pt.2 - Games and activities
In this second workshop the focus will be on some of the activities we can do with children before and after the story, to gauge their interest, work on the story (and on the language, if you're a language teacher), have fun and learn through stories and storytelling.
‘Exaggerate!’: Telling stories to kids pt.1 - Expressivity
In this first workshop we will focus on how to use our voice and body to tell the story with expressivity and to keep kids engaged.
Storymaking - With David Heathfield
Join us and discover the wonderful world of Storymaking with a group of students or participants. David and Simona will share some of their favourite activities to create stories collaboratively!
Storytelling in ELT - Teaching grammar through stories - 2° edition
In this online workshop the focus will be on English Language Teaching, and in particular once again on how to teach Grammar in a creative and fun way using Storytelling!
Storytelling in ELT - Teaching grammar through stories - 1° edition
In this online workshop the focus will be on English Language Teaching, and in particular on how to teach Grammar in a creative and fun way using Storytelling!
'What's in a name?' Culture and Identity through Storytelling - With Amna Burki
In this workshop, I’m happy to be joined by the wonderful Amna Burki to delve into the realm of Identity and Culture with the help of stories. This is going to be a taster of an incredibly vast topic well worth exploring!
Storytelling in ELT - Creative exam preparation
In this online workshop the focus will be on English Language Teaching, and in particular on how to make Exam Preparation fun and creative using Storytelling!
Personal storytelling - From a memory to a narrative
In this first online workshop of the series we will focus on the telling of Personal Stories and in particular on how to transform a memory into a complete and compelling narrative. Through discussions, visualisations and multiple tellings with different focuses, we'll transform a memory into a story!
Storytelling in Education - Global online conference
Learn about the power of storytelling and how to apply it in a learning environment to make your learners' experience more creative, engaging, effective and to build communities of learning.
8 highly interactive sessions led by teachers and storytellers with experience in applying storytelling in learning contexts.