Tales by Terry

Terry has conducted workshops for teachers, children, and adults on a wide range of subjects.  She is available for small groups or groups of several hundred.

Workshops are listed below by audience type.  Other topics for workshops, keynotes, and speeches can be tailor-made for your specific needs.

For Teachers:

Hook Your Students with the World's Oldest Profession - Want to capture your students' attention, help them remember a topic, and pass the standardized tests?  By using story in all areas of the curriculum, you can accomplish it all.

Story to Writing, a Natural Connection - Not satisfied with your students' writing?  Use storytelling techniques to help your students want to write and to improve their writing skills.

Beginning Storytelling for Teachers - You, too, can become a storyteller and bring the power of story to your classroom.

For Children:

These topics are best accompished through school residencies:

Beginning Storytelling

Using Story to Become a Better Writer

For Adults:

Life is a Chain of Stories: Create Your Links - A workshop to help form, remember, and tell your family stories.

Without Story, Where Would We Be? - Learn storytelling techniques with this fun and active workshop.

For Business and Health Care Fields:

Once Upon a Time in the Workplace: Using Storytelling to Improve Communication in Business - People use and remember information best when it is presented in the form of a story.  Examine how to use story to your company's advantage.

Storytelling: Your Greatest Selling Tool - How are you reaching your customers?  Are they hearing facts, but not connecting with you or remembering you?  Find out how to use story effectively to impact your customers.

Tell Your Company's Story - Customer service is the name of the game.  Use story to show your customers what your company can do for them.

Toss a Starfish into the Sea: Making a Difference with Healing Stories - Use storytelling to find just the right words; the perfect message.

"Your workshop was worth the price of the entire conference."-Beth L., teacher

"I loved your workshop at the Health Symposium and can't wait to hear you share your stories and insights with our medical staff."-Amy L., hospital program coordinator

"The two weeks you spent with the students (school residency on writing) was most impressionable, creating ferile ground from which we could contemplate and question critical issues and create...our own understanding."-Wendy M., elementary drama coach