Storytelling Workshops
and Individual Coaching Sessions

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If you’ve got a story to tell (and we all do!), but the thought of telling that story in front of a live audience makes you want to curl up in a fetal position and suck your toes, then help is on the way. We have three optional workshops and individual coaching sessions designed to help you structure and tell your story in the most effective way with the least amount of angst. ​Here’s the deal…

Workshop #1:   DISCOVERING YOUR STORY
Friday, September 30, 7:00pm 
​Registration Deadline: September 23

• Why storytelling matters
• You have a story:
  • Discovering your stories
  • Finding the story you want to tell
  • Basic Story Structure
  • Goal and Obstacle

​FEE: $20

Workshop #2: STRUCTURING YOUR STORY
Saturday, October 15, 9:00am
Registration Deadline: October 8

• Creative associative thinking (clustering with your pattern mind)
• Concrete details versus abstractions, setting
  • ​Scene
  • Character
  • Conflict/emotion/stakes
• ​Coming full circle:
  • ​Resolution
  • Landing on the strong (or funny) word/syllable

FEE: $20

Workshop #3:   BECOMING A STORYTELLER
Saturday, October 15, 10:45am
Registration Deadline: October 8

• Interactive exercises to free you up and exercise your creative muscles
• Presentation
  • Clear and articulate delivery: voice and diction exercises
  • Tricks of the trade:
    • Dealing with stage fright
    • ​Operative words
    • Vocal technique
    • Memorization techniques

​FEE: $20

INDIVIDUAL COACHING SESSIONS: Sign up for some one-on-one time with one of our SpokenStorySlamKC Directors
Saturday, October 15, 1:00pm-5:00pm
Registration Deadline: October 8

• 30-minute sessions
• ​Registration Deadline: October 8
• Please note on your registration form a first, second, and third choice for your preferred session time (half-hour increments beginning with 1:00 and ending with 5:00). Session times will be awarded on a first come, first served basis. You'll be notified of your session time after you register.
• FEE: $20

PACKAGE DEALS YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!

• Two workshops plus a trendy SSSKC t-shirt: $30
• Three workshops plus an eye-popping SSSKC t-shirt: $45
• All three workshops, an individual coaching session, and a dare-we-say-sexy SSSKC t-shirt: $60​ ​

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Meet our Clinicians

Jon Bowles, Bobbie Jeffrey, and Kelli Sallman

Location of workshops
​Beggars Table Church and Gallery in the Crossroads
2010 Baltimore
Kansas City, MO

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The workshops are optional; participation in the storytelling night is not contingent upon registration in the workshops. Conversely, participation in the workshops does not guarantee a spot in our storytelling night, but we hope it will make you a better storyteller!