Module 4
Storytelling Skills & Workshops
The training laboratory is an immersive course where storytellers, mentors and partner organisations come together to build the foundation of the project and train, bond and enter the storytelling community. Ideally, the laboratory would take place over a few days, as a residential. This chapter offers practical steps to help you design and deliver a laboratory phase that equips storytellers, strengthens partnerships, and sets the stage for impactful final performances.
Alden Biesen Course Preparation
The training trajectory started with a first international residential course in Alden Biesen (BE). The document linked here encloses the concept for this course. It involved 16 young storytellers, five festival organisers, and six mentors/trainers. You can find course objectives, a programme, expected results, and example workshop plans.
Alden Biesen Training Schedule
The training schedule from the Alden Biesen course. This can be used as an example for other storytelling workshops and events.
Clicking the respective tab on the side, you can also find descriptions for all workshops hosted in Alden Biesen during the training.
Alden Biesen Workshops
Description, guidelines and activities of all workshops by mentors and trainers at the Alden Biesen course.
Click on the workshop titles to receive more information and download the workshop sheets.
Mentor Information Sheet
The second international residential course in Amsterdam focused on performance. The schedule offered time to work with different mentors on feedback and the ‘gaps’ in the stories and performances. There was a rehearsal in international trios and stage preparation, and time to work with the ‘festivals’ on career issues and entrepreneurship.
FEST Storytelling Competence Model
‘Storytelling in 8 colours’ is a description of 8 storytelling competence domains. The first four, Research, Craftsmanship, Art and Performance are considered the main domains, in which every storyteller should become proficient up to a certain level. This profile serves as a guideline to detect strengths and weaknesses and to set goals for progress in a storytelling training path.