Description:

This ONLINE workshop series will explore storytelling as a foundational human experience and tool for healing and narrative shift. It will offer ideas for implementing multimedia storytelling, with a focus on audio, in your youth program or classroom, that support young people’s connection to their own voice, critical thinking, and strengthen relationships between all in the setting.

When:

Friday, February 11, 18, & 25 10:30am-12pm (Three consecutive Fridays). Sessions will be held online via Zoom, and a link will be sent prior to first session.

Session Outlines:

• SESSION 1: What is storytelling? Youth voice, nonlinear narratives, media justice, & storytelling
• SESSION 2: Methods of teaching storytelling through mixed media, with a focus on audio
• SESSION 3: Creative ways to share stories with young people

What You'll Walk Away With:

• A curated list of resources, activities, and tools to teach storytelling to middle schoolers, high schoolers, and young adults.
• A well-developed framing and understanding around how storytelling can support young people’s learning, confidence, and connection to self and to peers.
• Increased confidence in leading multi-media storytelling activities.

Fee: $50

Facilitator Bio:

Emily Krumberger is a media professional, youth worker, facilitator, writer & guest on Dakota & Anishinaabe land who believes in the power of storytelling and media to create and illuminate possibility. She helped start Listen Up Youth Radio, a small local nonprofit, in 2018 and got her start in community media at KFAI Radio in 2011, where she ran youth programming. She is a graduate of the Youth Development Leadership program at the University of Minnesota who is still learning daily. She is most joyful when hanging out or working with youth, dancing, writing, or making media. In another life she was either Morticia or Wednesday Addams.

For more information contact:

Deborah Moore, Youth Work Learning Lab Director at 651-955-6462.