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Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories
Kate Farrell
Stories are everywhere. The art of storytelling has been around as long as humans have. And in today’s noisy, techie, automated world, storytelling is not only prevalent—it’s vital. Whether you’re interested in enlivening conversation, building your business brand, sharing family wisdom, or performing on stage, Story Power will show you how to make use of a good story.
Become an Engaging Storyteller. Storytelling is the most effective way to communicate and to affect change—if you know how to use it. Story Power provides techniques for creating and framing personal stories alongside effective tips for telling them in any setting. Plus, this book models stories with unique storytelling examples, exercises, and prompts, as well as storytelling techniques for delivery in a spontaneous, authentic style.
If you want to experience the power of storytelling in your life, Story Power is for you. In this book, discover:
- How to share your own coming-of-age stories and family folklore
- The importance of a personal branding story and storytelling marketing
- Seven Steps to Storytelling, along with helpful tools, organizers, and media options.
Subscribe to my Substack, ONCE UPON: A Storyteller’s Memoir as a series!
Kate Farrell was a storyteller at an early age. By age ten, she’d tacked signs on telephone poles in her neighborhood, announcing her fairytale play. As a first year teacher, she stumbled on storytelling as the best way to teach literature to inner city kids. By 1970, she’d honed the skill as a new librarian, and in 1980s, funded and trained teachers in a CA state-wide storytelling project—and published educational materials on the art with big name publishers, like Scholastic and Highlights for Children.
Kate is the founder of Woven: Telling the Heroine’s Journey based on her work with storytelling, finding profound meaning in the archetypes of feminine fairy tales. She shares her process in workshops and on Substack.
Her new craft book, The Fairy Tale Heroine: Live and Create Her Journey, is available in Winter 2027 from Sibylline Press!
Class Testimonials – Fairy Tale Heroine
“This class was the best writing and mythology course I have ever taken. Kate Farrell’s guidance led us on a well-organized and intuitive experience where we encountered the tales, ourselves and each other on a very deep level. Through the class activities, I found my perceptions of self, society and story interweaving and unveiling new truths.”
~Story Circle Network, April 2023
“We women filled the meeting room in the venerable old library with our voices, writings, and insights, each one of us empowering the other, acknowledging the layers of meaning in the ancient folktale, “Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave,” a heroine’s journey. … We touched on self-care and self-love, the guidance of mother wisdom, the nature of beauty, and how Vasilisa became an independent woman in her own right.”
~Mechanics Institute, February 2023
“Thank you, Kate, for a deeply understood presentation of female strengths and unacknowledged POWER in the face of overwhelming odds. I found resources I never imagined and a legacy worth writing and speaking about. Clearly, you have enough material to teach and guide an entire day on Baba Yaga and Vasilisa, the Brave.”
~Mechanics Institute, February 2023