Before telling a story, storytellers must ask themselves the question: Why do I want to tell this story? Do I want to be seen and heard? Do I want to impart the wisdom that this story holds for me? Or do I want to tell it because what I witnessed in my mind’s eye is so compelling that I am obliged to tell it?  

Jan Blake, one of the world’s leading storytellers, believes that to tell a story, you must allow yourself to experience the story in a physical and nonjudgemental way. You must love every character, even the bad ones; you must have smelled and tasted and touched and heard and seen every moment in your story, viscerally. This utter engagement with the story is what makes it come truly alive. 

In this three-hour workshop, Jan will invite the participants to walk the landscape of a story told by Jan, experience their favorite part of that story and then share it with the group, having lived it so profoundly that their words and their body will communicate with passion and aliveness the true essence of the story.