Storytelling & Story-Making Workshop
This workshop is a multi-modal or multiple-intelligence designed workshop which George has presented in over 45 residencies in schools across the state of Indiana. In addition, George has presented over 20 one-day workshops using this same method with educators, naturalists, and church groups.
The workshop is fun, active, and community building. It involves creative movement, relaxation techniques, drawing, creative dramatics, and music. It culminates in a final storytelling performance in which everyone performs an original story. The workshop contains serious work, relaxed fun, and ample opportunities for a final celebration.
The first part of the workshop has demonstrated significant results (with follow-ups by certified reading and writing instructors) in motivating children to write. This is especially supportive of the multiple-intelligence theory, as there is little writing executed in this part of the process. It is believed to achieve these results by demonstrating the interconnected creative processes necessary for generating writing while using a kinesthetic, auditory, and visual approach in synergistic fashion. In other words, certain creative writing principles are absorbed by the individual which enable them to understand writing from a pre-conscious level. This is especially important for children or adults who have difficulties processing the abstract writing process in their mind because of difficulties on the fine motor level.
The workshop can be demonstrated to be quite effective in a one-day, five-day, or ten-day format. A shorter three-hour workshop can demonstrate many of the main principles involved in the longer process.
For more information on how you can book a story-making workshop with George Schricker contact: heartmind@hoosierlink.net or call (574) 936-3896.
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