Join us for a fun afternoon as storyteller Jen Rubin teaches us how to find, shape, and tell stories. Bring existing stories to shape or find new stories from your life. We will discuss the five main elements of a story and how to discover them. By learning dynamic storytelling elements, you will gain the tools to pull short stories out of everyday life. Participants will learn how to turn an anecdote of something that happened to you into a story that illuminates a central truth about your life. We will also teach techniques to communicate your story in an engaging manner. This will be an interactive class with a mixture of mini-lecture, 1:1 dialogue, small group work, and story presentations.
 
To register for this workshop, or for any further information, please contact Stoughtonstorytellers@gmail.com
 
Jen Rubin leads storytelling workshops around the state and is a producer of Humanity Unlocked, a podcast about the power of the humanities in Wisconsin prisons. She produced the Moth StorySlam in Madison from 2016 through 2024. She wrote the book, We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood. Jen believes that stories are an important way we connect as humans.