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"My Father was a storyteller," says Sandy Schuman. "It was his everyday way of communicating important values and ideas. I followed his example, but didn't realize it until several years ago. After leading a three-day training program, I read the attendees' evaluation forms. In response to the question, 'What did you like best about the program?' several people responded, 'Sandy's stories.' I had to ask my co-trainer what they were talking about! That's how I found out I was a storyteller." |
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For years, Sandy Schuman has used storytelling in his work as a management consultant, group facilitator, and trainer. Recently he has been sharing his stories of life, culture, and history with youth and adult audiences, including Tellabration and Story Sundays. Using his group facilitation skills, Sandy can help a group to tell its collective story, reconstructing its past, reflecting on the present, and imagining the future. |
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Examples of Storytelling Programs |
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Organizational |
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Stories at Work® |
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Stories are told at work, but they also do work, that is, stories can help an organization accomplish its aims. This workshop helps you understand how to use storytelling in your organization to share knowledge, promote values, and foster change. We can help your organization tell its collective story and create a story for the future. The stories you tell at work can say more about your organization than the "mission, vision, and values" placard in the main lobby. More ... |
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Storytelling for Trainers, Facilitators, and Consultants |
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In this workshop for trainers, facilitators, and consultants we explore storytelling and how it can be integrated into professional practices. Building on their own experiences participants enhance their abilities to create and tell their own stories. More ... |
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Sample workshop stories:The Meaning of WildernessThe Uncomfortable Participant |
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Personal and Historical |
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My Father Was a Storyteller - |
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Sam Schuman was a songwriter, musician, poet, and storyteller who made his living as an electrician. He lived through most of the last century in the developing urban landscapes of Philadelphia and New York City, striving to achieve his dreams, making the best of what he had, and keeping the spark of hope alive. His stories, retold by his son, Sandy, are an ironic, inspiring, chronicle of one man’s life and a by‑gone age. Available on CD. |
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How The Empire State Got its Westernmost Border (and Other Incredible Episodes in New York State History) - |
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Ever wonder why New York State's border makes that right-angle turn in its western corner? New York history demonstrates truth that's stranger than fiction. |
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The Great American Hoax - |
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Watergate, Savings & Loan Debacle, Enron, and Worldcom step aside. These true stories describe get-rich hoaxes of an earlier age in their historical context. |
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Fantastic |
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The Adventures of Cyber Bill and his Virtual Robot, ABE - |
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In the tradition of Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan, these tall tales for technological times reconstruct the history of the electronic frontier while imparting a bit of the true history of the Internet for good measure. |
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A Year with Bill Greenfield - |
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Legendary hunter, trapper, fisherman, and guide, we visit with Bill Greenfield through the seasons with Adirondack tall tales: Vegetarian Summer; Taken by the Devil; The Loneliest Winter; Polar Bear Cold; Frogs Legs; A Bad Day Hunting |
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The News from Chelm - |
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The legendary fools of Chelm have migrated to a new home -- where there are five seasons instead of only four, every acre of land is two acres, and the soil can be tilled with a teaspoon. Hear the latest on their whereabouts and wisdom. |
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Sandy Schuman |
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