Syd's newest services for individuals and institutions:
- NEW:Individual Coaching via Skype
- Syd is now offering individual coaching via Skype. Here are some things he can do for you:
Help you become a better storyteller
Coach you through the telling of a particular story
Show you how to use storytelling effectively in a special speech
Edit a story you've been working on
The cost is $100 an hour. If you meet for three hours, your fourth session will be half price. If you want Syd to look at a text or a video before a session, he'll charge his hourly rate.
- NEW: More than Decent Docents
- Museum visitors and tour takers love to learn the human stories behind facts and displays. Syd can teach your docents how to find, craft, and tell those stories. Clients include the US Capitol Visitor Center, the Chicago Architectural Foundation, and the Van Andel Museum Center.
- NEW: Historically Speaking
- If you ever wanted to create a historical narrative or enrich a personal narrative with historical details of time and place, this workshop is for you. You'll learn how to weave history into your personal and family stories, and how to find and develop the stories contained in a moment of history.
- NEW: From Thought to Text
- Do you have a story you want to write or tell? Perhaps you want to commemorate a family or business anniversary or a moment in history. Commission Syd and his wife Adrienne to write that story. Syd has received commissions from NASA, Historic Philadelphia, and the Smithsonian. Syd and Adrienne co-wrote the award-winning story Abraham & Isaac: Sacrifice at Gettysburg, and recently created 12 stories for docents to tell at the US Capitol Visitor Center.
- NEW: Spiffing up Your Speech
- Do you have an important speech to give, but worry about what you will say and how to say it? Syd can show you how to use story in your talk to hook your audience and hone your speech so your audience stays hooked.
Some of Syd's most popular workshops include:
- Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? Who Are We? Using Story in the Business World
- Company stories can illuminate the past, define the future, and differentiate one company from another.
- Over the River and Through the Woods: Finding Stories in Our Lives
- Finding key moments in your life, developing them, and organizing the material into a polished story
- It Really Happened: Creating Historical Tales
- Researching a historical topic, identifying the central narrative, and shaping the material into a moving tale
- Just Start Her Over the Edge and Let Her Slide: A Storytelling Class for Beginners
- Techniques to remember a story, conquer stage fright, and tell effectively in any setting
- The Art of Storytelling: Master Class
- Exercises and critiques to help experienced tellers hone stories and perfect storytelling techniques
- Conducting Classroom Composers: Storytelling and the Art of Writing
- Storytelling activities for K-12 students that inspire story creation