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Please call Chloë on 01451 861185 to book
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Midnight Storytellers
at work
Spark creative thinking
Discover presentation skills that grip your audience
Build new understanding and improve communication in your team
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• Stories in Business
Half day, full day or 2 days
Interactive narrative is recognised as a powerful tool for professional
development + knowledge management, from the World Bank and IBM to
family firms!
Hearing a story bypasses entrenched
ideas and resistance.
Creating a story stimulates
‘outside-the-box’ thinking.
Midnight Storytellers will:
- present narratives
- facilitate discussions
- guide participants’ development of personal or team narratives
You can use interactive narrative to tackle issues such as:
- Harassment and bullying at work
- Work/life balance
- Teamwork and communication.
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• The Creative Speaker Half
day, full day or 2 days
For the boardroom and beyond!
Never be dull, never fear drying up.
Learn a quick, safe 3-step structure.
Discover the most powerful speaking style in the world. Take control.
Chloë and Karen-Eve have more than 20 years’
international experience of presenting and facilitating.
They
really do know what it’s like to face a reluctant audience in
a grotty room with a bug-infested computer, and a day of dry technical
information... They know how to entertain 3,000 revellers.
What
do you do when someone stands up and says “I’ve been here
an hour and I haven’t heard anything useful yet?” (This
happened to Chloë in her second ever seminar; the interrupter
ended up hiring her to edit his company newsletter…)
What
if someone asks a question in such a strong accent that you can’t
understand a single word?! And how do you handle hostile questions?
Including:
• Vital voice techniques
• Practical exercises in a safe environment
• When
and how to dump the rules!
The Creative Speaker lets you into the surprisingly simple secrets
of making good presentations.
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For work and leisure
Well organised fun in a relaxed yet purposeful atmosphere
Entertaining, creative – and strengthens workplace skills
Moments of divine madness and pure magic..!
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Group organisers + social secretaries
– find 9 participants and get your workshop place at HALF
PRICE.
- Please call Chloë to discuss how, when + where you’d
like a workshop run for your group. Tel 01451 86 11 85
• Cracking Creative Performance
(aka Try Storytelling) Half/full day or 2 days
Discover how to make any story come alive in your very own words.
From ghost tales to office anecdotes, harness
the intense emotional power of the ancient art of storytelling using
just your voice, your expression and a few gestures. Magic!
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• Rant & Write led
by Chloë Half day, full day or 2 days (with excursions)
Crack writers’ block, unleash your word-power!
Explore and enjoy the creative differences between spoken and written
word.
A unique mix of creative writing and spontaneous storytelling.
Chloë has a passion for language. She found
storytelling on a quest to break her own writers’ block, and
realised that each discipline has something to offer the other.
A professional copywriter, editor and rule-bending grammar guru
for more than 15 years, Chloë is now winning acclaim as a ‘master
storyteller’.
Chloë believes in live English – blending
everyday language with vital extras! – and she inspires your
imagination and confidence.
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• A Word in your Eye 2
hours, half day/full day or 2 days
Messing about with art! – Fabulous session of mixed creativity
using dramatic stories told live, off-the-cuff to stimulate drawing/painting.
For artists seeking fresh inspiration.
For everyone who wants to break out of old patterns
and experience something new.
(Please also see under Education below.)
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• Look inside the Sound
2 hours or half day
An innovative introduction to spontaneous storytelling, sparking
your creativity and fluency with soul-stirring music.
(Please also see under Education below.)
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Midnight Storytellers
in Education
Clear structure and learning objectives
Lively interactive sessions
Comment and questions welcomed, to deepen understanding and enjoyment
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• Legends Unmasked 1-2
hours
For primary + secondary schools, + holiday activities
- Dramatic retellings of the stories of plays in the National Curriculum
- Legends behind great classical ballets, opera and West End musicals
- Folktales, myths and legends from culture(s) relating to historical
eras/figures, literature and plays studied in National Curriculum.
Fires up enjoyment of historically and culturally important work.
Enables students to overcome barriers of language or performance
style. Develops appreciation of varied eras and cultures.
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• Here Be Dragons – anti
bullying project 1-2 hours or half day
For primary and secondary schools
- Entertaining folktales, myths and legends from many cultures highlighting
prejudice, stereotyping, fear-driven behaviours and
self control.
Performance, storymaking and facilitated discussion.
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• Under the Covers –
relationship education 1-2 hours or half day
For secondary schools
- An attention-grabbing mix of strong modern stories and ancient
legends to provoke thought and talk. Our tales acknowledge
fears and peer pressures, tackle urges and ignorance;
and encourage a mature yet warm-hearted approach.
Performance, storymaking and facilitated discussion.
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• Secret Treasure! –
for primary schools
For What It’s Worth
– for secondary schools
- Stories highlighting values and citizenship, equality
and diversity. Led by Karen-Eve.
- Fables, fairytales and folklore appropriate to age groups
Was Cinderella a winner or a wimp? Is it ever ok to lie? To take
something without permission? How do you know a wolf from a woodcutter?
Performance, storymaking and facilitated discussion.
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• A Word in your Eye
– tales to start art 1-2 hours or half
day
For primary + secondary schools, + holiday activities
– Dramatic presentations to stimulate drawing/painting, using
vivid stories from many cultures.
– A creative adventure, exploring the differences in process
between work-while-listening (Stream of Consciousness) and listen-then-work.
– Innovative approaches encouraged, eg graphic novel technique
Messy, multi-creative and cross-cultural fun!
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• Look inside the Sound
– music appreciation 1-2 hours
For primary + secondary schools, + holiday activities.
Composers have been arrested for making music that expressed the
‘wrong’ political ideas. Concert audiences have rioted.
But not a word was sung!
– So, very clearly, orchestral music tells a story. What will
you find in these magical pieces of music?!
- Free-flowing verbal creativity inspired by magnificent music
- From Albinoni to Adiemus, from Dvorak to Jean-Michel Jarre, from
Vivaldi to Vangelis!
A compelling and fun introduction to storytelling and great music.
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What you get from a
Midnight Storytellers workshop
- Lively, interactive sessions
- Clear structure and learning objectives
- A flexible approach appropriate to the group, allowing response
to relevant questions/interests
- Participants engage in a sequence of practical exercises, designed
to build their confidence and skills
- A relaxed yet purposeful atmosphere
- Creativity, imagination and high quality skills modelled so
as to motivate participants
- Notes where appropriate to reinforce and extend information
- Reflections (feedback) on individual exercises and the whole
event, to deepen understanding and enjoyment.
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