The Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf: Recent Episodes
Eric James Wolf
A national conversation from all perspectives on the profession of storytelling with children. Serving all members of the storytelling with children portion of the storytelling movement. Including presenters, listeners, festival organizers, administrators, educators, parents, and storytellers.
Swami Ravi (Rudiji) "Who Gets Sick? Tending Your Immune System."
Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati known formerly as Dr. Rudolph Ballentine, here at EH he is know as Swami Ravi or Rudiji.. He is the author of several books on health, spirituality, yoga, and tantra. He took vows three years ago as a Sanyasa (monk) in the tradition of India
He will talk about: "Who gets sick? Tending your immune system." this will include a look at the various factors impacting your ability to resist infections, that often are overlooked: for example, stress, psychological issues, diet, and environmental conditions.
Dr. Monique Mazza is a licensed Naturopathic Physician who is licensed in the State of Vermont.
We will begin with a digest of the latest research which hopefully will answer some of your burning questions regarding; Length of contagion period (Most viral shedding occurs days BEFORE a person becomes sick!) Lesser known symptoms to be aware of, How it affects children, Animal reservoir and how it relates to re-occurrence, How people using hypertensive medications may have a greater risk for viral entry into lungs and a warning about use of ibuprofen
In the remainder of the time, Dr. Mazza will empower you with immune boosting recommendations including vitamin and herbal supplementation, hydrotherapy, and homeopathics for symptom management.
Madison Dietz is a Certified Nurse Aide and currently in nursing school for her RN license.
I want to share my knowledge of sanitizing techniques and guidelines as well as discuss how I do this in health facilities in my schooling. Also, expressing the importance of understanding sanitation in this current pandemic of Covid-19.
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Rachel Fee Clinical Herbalist "Herbal Energetic's and Covid-19 Symptom Management"
Rachel Fee-Prince is a trauma informed clinical herbalist and resident of EH Ecovillage. Rachel has studied Ayurveda, Vitalism, Southern Folk Medecine, as well as Greek Humoral Theory, thereby practicing her own "mutt" blend of traditional western herbalism. Once upon a time, Rachel was a certified doula and homebirth midwifery apprentice, where her herbal practice grew and her area of expertise emerged as working with infants and young children and mothers in the childbearing year. However, she consults with folks of all ages and stages
Rachel will discuss the three main presentations of this virus and energetically appropriate herbs for each, focusing mainly on common kitchen herbs and spices with a few exceptions.
Eric Wolf "Your Attitude is Worth Your Life in a Pandemic"
Eric Wolf is a Licensed Clinical who has a Masters of Social Work and a Masters of Science in Environmental Education. He has been studying the art and science of survival at the Tom Brown Survival School for the past 25 years. He is currently a practicing family therapist in South Asheville and is doing tele-health for patients in North Carolina.
In this conversation I am going to share what attitude to take can take in a Pandemic to protect our selves and the ones we love. I will review the current literature on Covid-19, talk about the history of the pandemic, review the basic science behind what happens when a completely new disease enters our ecology and talk about how out cultural attitudes and despair is physically dangerous to us at this time.
The New York Times dubbed him "a consummate storyteller" while TIMEOUT New York writes, "Master Storyteller Odds Bodkin is the talk of the town with his remarkable one-man Art of the Tale."
With a face and voice that launched a thousand characters, Leeny Del Seamonds, Master Story Performer, is an internationally acclaimed performer, coach, and multi award-winning recording artist.
iane Wolkstein is also the award–winning author of 23 books, including The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales and Inanna, Queen of Heaven, and numerous CDs and DVDs.
Larry Brown received a Ph.D. from the College of Education, Department of Education and Policy Analysis, at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is also a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Sociology; received the Masters of Divinity from Christian Theology Seminary in Indianapolis; and a Masters of Arts in Geography from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
In this interview with Eric, I speak about how the various elements of nature mythology can be an enlivening force both for those who hear you tell and for your own journey into this ancient form of meaning.
Tim Errenta has performed in Fringe Festivals around the United States using his storytelling who Top Ten Hits from 1349.
What compels someone to commit themselves to the absurdly uncertain, and certainly absurd, road of being an artist?
Angela Llyod is a California based storyteller who has told at the National Storytelling Festival and at Festivals all over the ountry.
Octavia Sexton is a traditional storyteller from Kentucky who grewup hearing and telling Jack Stories for as long as she can remember.
Only Audience members of the International Storytelling School can hear the other episodes published in Dec of 2010.
A discussion with David A. Anderson on how history and stories define the African American Community in the United States.
A discussion on Kathy Collins work as a Comedienne and Storyteller using her persona of Tita to tell stories about the Volcano Goddess of Hawaii.
Rafe Martin is both a storyteller and a Zen practitioner - a writer of stories and a teacher of the zen tradition.
Only Audience members of the International Storytelling School can hear the other three episodes published in Oct of 2010.
It has always been my belief that the arts represent a key component in the effective presentation of the storytelling experience.
Only Audience members of the International Storytelling School can hear the other three episodes published in September of 2010.
Ruth Stotter has spent years developing hte art of using props and strong in her storytelling performances.
Laird Schaub - excutve director of the Federatin of Intentioanl Communities speaks on how to engage people with in the emotional stories that trap them.
Michael Reno Harrell speaks on how the history of Storytelling Revival is connected to the folk music revival.
Mastery is an ambiguous word raising the impulse of ownership and recognition, resonating something standing apart while representing a form of wholeness.
Brother Wolf speaks with David Ambrose on the foundation and running of the International Storytelling Festival of Wales.
Brother Wolf is the host of Art of Storytelling Show and during this 102nd episode of the show he answers questions on the art of storytelling on how to work as a proffesional storyteller.
Brother Wolf is the host of Art of Storytelling Show and during this 101st episode of the show he answers questions on the art of storytelling on how to work with Audiences.
Brother Wolf is the host of Art of Storytelling Show and during this 100 episode of the show he answers questions on the future, current status and the past history of the Art of Storytelling Show.
We discuss the value of art and storytelling in maintaining and representing community health.
A discussion on the value of oral traditions and native american storytelling in the modern era.
An animated discussion with Nothando Zulu on the benefits of using participation with children's storytelling.
Gail Herman speaks about building a student storytelling Festival on the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf.
Christine Carlton and Jenni Cargill from Australia discuss cultural skeletons of Australian History on the Art of Storytelling with Brother Wolf.
Brother Wolf speaks on how you can participate on the show and interact with the guests.
Michel Cotter is the first national storyteller to perform personal stories on the main stage at Jonesborough, TN. He is a semi-retired farmer and winner of the 2009 oracle award for excellence in storytelling.
Esyllt Harker is a Welsh storyteller who is exploring the connection between landscapes and language in historical welsh stories.
Dr. Sherry Norfolk is one of the world's foremost experts on the Art of Storytelling in school settings.
Doug Elliot talks about the history of natural world and how you can use storytelling to inspire passion in the natural world. He also talks about his herbal walk with a wild badger.
Anne Glover speaks about how she created the character Monkey and how anyone can find their true voice and oh she also talks about string and teaching french using storytelling.
Elisa Pearmain speaks on the power of forgiveness and how to use storytelling to access it in yourself and in others.
Kevin Strauss is an award winning educator and storyteller who has published five books related to environmental education and storytelling.
Carol Mon is a corporate consultant who works with american companies to help facilitate the understanding of how story can change people and companies.
Baba Jamal Koram is a force of nature in the African American Storytelling world - winner of the 2007 NSN circle of excellence award.
Kim Weitkamp talks about her storytelling working life working with troubled youth one on one as a storyteller.
Ben Sota and the Zany Umbrella Circus have been traveling around the country for over fifteen years to such places as the white house...
Jackson has thrice been a featured performer at the National Storytelling in Tennessee, and has performed at festivals and schools throughout the country.
Tingle is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a sought-after speaker and storyteller, and an award-winning author of Native American fiction and folklore.
Jay O’Callahan is one of the worlds most famous and recognized storytellers. His works are available online for sale. He has performed world-wide.
Ed Stivender is one of the old standbys in the storytelling community. He has written a number of books on growing up catholic.
Elaine speaks at length of how to use and how she has used storytelling in traditional medical situations to heal the sick and effect the disturbed.
Catherine Burns, Artistic Director of The Moth speaks at length about how to coach non-storytellers and how the Moth podcast and main stage creates such amazing stories week after week.
Bill Lepp talks at length in detail on how to lie and not get caught. Bill Lepp is the five time winner of the Virginia Liar's contest.
At this point in time, I understand clearly and fondly what a gift I received when I came to storytelling. The gift of generous mentors who encouraged me to find and develop my own voice rather than adopt theirs.
Adult listeners at storytelling events are often surprised by the recognition that storytelling evokes. Listeners tell us,Gee, I haven't thought about that in ages... I'd forgotten what it was like to... I remember when... and so on.
Stories may be static on the physical or virtual page, but for as long as the storyteller is telling, the story has blood and breath. Every retelling of a folk-tale, imbued with the individual blood and breath of the storyteller, is unique.
Connie Regen-Blake is one of the longest supporters and storytellers at the National Storytelling Festival. She speaks about her life and storytelling career.
Andy Offutt Irwin speaks about how to be a storyteller who successfully works with mixed age audiences as a storyteller or musician.
Elizabeth Ellis says that the most basic things about being human come from the right side of the brain, not the left. Chief among them is the ability to make ethical decisions. Ethical decision-making requires the ability to imagine the effect of my behavior on your life.
Charlotte Blake Alston shares some of her experience of growing up African American in the United Sates and how storytelling can be a useful skill in helping communities to confront racism in their lives.
Dylan Pritchett is a native of Williamsburg, Virginia. Since 1990, Mr. Pritchett has been a full-time storyteller, taking his African and African-American folk tales averaging over a hundred schools annually throughout the country.
Interview on the Art of Storytelling with Children about good poetry and good storytelling go together like hand in glove recorded on November 15th 2008 with storyteller Mitch Capel - Grandaddy Junebug.
Interview on the Art of Storytelling with Children about literacy and storytelling in the 21st Century that was recorded as a conference call on October 15th, 2008 with Michael D. McCarty
Lopaka Kapanui is the official ghost storyteller of the Talk Story Storytelling festival in Hawaii.
Dale Gilbert Jarvis speaks about running a haunted tour and how to find ghost stories in your community.
Donna Washington professional storyteller and featured ghost story teller at the 2008 National Storytelling Festival. speaks about the Anatomy of a Ghost Story.
Thomas Freeze writes... I have over a dozen storytelling programs that I perform for schools, libraries, festivals, churches and private parties. And several of those themed programs are ghost stories. I’ve collected both true ghost stories as well as authoring original fiction mysteries.
A very lively discussion on storytelling in the 20th century - How to use podcasting, blogging, website assistance, mp3 sales and email to support your storytelling practice.
Jack Zipes writes... At their best, the storytelling of fairy tales constitute the most profound articulation of the human struggle to form and maintain a civilizing process.
Jim May Writes - I tell stories to children because I learned many years ago that nothing in my ten years of experience as a classroom teacher held my elementary students' attention like a story.
Language is critical for literacy development and storytelling creates an interactive bridge. Music, repeated phrases, and actions provide connections and invite participation by children when they become part of the storytelling event.
This interview that was recorded as a conference call on June 3rd 2008 with storyteller Dovie Thomason on building Young Adult Audiences. How do we as artists connect with younger audiences?
How did it all begin? With one sentence. In 2002 I had been storytelling for only a few years when I approached one of the teachers and boldly stated, I would love to start a student storytelling club.
What makes storytelling funny? How do we use comedy to serve our audiences? What are the ground rules of comedy with storytelling and how do we use them as performers? All of these topics our touched upon by Buck P Creacy.
This is a traditional way of performing storytelling back when storytellers worked in the marketplace in the street or would travel from home to home singing for their supper. Largely I do this in the context of a Renaissance or fantasy festival but I have done storytelling in the modern street.
When Sally Crandall takes on the creation of an historical story, She looks at it as an opportunity to go back in time and explore places and people. How you can use storytelling in school to teach history and develop a better understanding of history.
Folk-tales bring us the wisdom of the ages. They have been honed and shaped over centuries. They are there for everyone, functioning on the one hand as entertainment and on the other through offering so many layers of meaning that they are accessible to all.
A BLUEPRINT: I offer a blueprint based on my evolution here in Hawaii mapping a progression from a teller to a story producer of a Festival, a radio, and TV series. I believe it is vital for us to moving storytelling into the blood stream of the mainstream.
Storytellers are at heart bringers of culture, bringers of ideas and agents of change. How do we as storyteller and storylovers support hte use oof storyteling for the future generations to come? How can we support peace and social jusitce through storytelling?
As pressures build in schools for national testing, reporting and accountability, many people feel storytelling can be eliminated in schools. However, we knew that there were many quantitative studies documenting the methods and effectiveness of using stories and storytelling techniques in traditional classrooms to help teach the standard curriculum. We created our website to help spread the word.
In this episode Eric wolf speaks with Mark Morey about how the Art of Mentoring can be used with storytelling to reach out to adolescent age children. We explore the role that mentoring is meant to play in pre or post industrial society.
David Epley speaks about comedy and storytelling. Comedy is one of the most effective tools for imparting any information: Comedy actively involves the audience; laughter is not passive. Comedy encourages the audience to focus on the process. Comedy makes the process fun.
Diane Williams talks about creating a storytelling classroom and literacy development in the storytelling classroom. Teachers, parents, storytellers and students can effectively get involved in a systemic, sustainable, and holistic approach to learning across the curriculum by incorporating story and storytelling elements.
Syd Lieberman speaks at length about how he developes his family's stories. We also speak about giving your stories away through podcasting the benefits and rewards.
Baba the storyteller and I speak about the podcasting revolution and the storytelling movement. Will we ever stop talking off topic of podcasting during this episode? All this on two tellers talking – the podcasting special.
As storytellers and teaching artists, we have the pivotal opportunity to create change and inspire parents and educators to include storytelling in the home and the classroom.
Storypartners for Teenage Parents is designed to promote communication between teenage parents and parents of another generation. Like it or not parents have similar experiences no matter when they became a parent. This program gives all participants a chance to tell his/her own story to someone who is there to listen to them.
When telling for young audiences, even the most brilliant story is vulnerable to young audiences if the situation is compromised, or your delivery is not ideal for the setting. In this discussion, Alex reveals how his wild and mesmerizing style is methodically built, brick by brick.
In our interview, we talk about: some of the ways Priscilla Howe found to make a real living, how to thrive as a storyteller instead of just survive, marketing (word of mouth, websites, blogs, direct mail) how to sustain the traveling life, and to remember that we’re doing this because it’s so incredibly fun.
Steve Denning you used storytelling to reform the world bank. Good business cases are developed through the use of numbers, but they are typically approved on the basis of stories. A story can translate dry, abstract numbers into compelling pictures of how the deep yearnings of decision influencers can come true.
An internationally known story performer and teaching artist, this three-time Emmy Award winner and Parents Choice honoree is one of the most popular and dynamic story-educators in the country today!
I always start my storytelling performances by focusing on the circles and cycles that we share. Storytelling is a circle: a story needs someone to speak the words and a listener to imagine the story into being.
Margaret began telling stories as a children’s librarian in 1965. She retired from the King County Library System in 2002 and has been traveling incessantly ever since. She delights in discovering tales most tellers have not heard yet and putting those into books for others to share.
I spent an hour talking with my local yellow springs Tale-spinners about how we function as a closed storytelling group. We are fairly successful at supporting each other and building on our past successes. I think you will enjoy the conversation.
In this podcast, Elizabeth shares her ideas on how to use storytelling in the classroom in a realistic way in order to help teach the mandated state curriculum.
Brother Wolf Speaks with Rachel Hedman about there conference call course and free e-course called Tracking the College Big Cat's.
Tim Sheppard talks about how various traditions hold the responsibility of an audience differently. What is the moment of impact that storytellers can create and hold for there audiences?
Heather Forest with sharing musical folk-tales with young listeners. Music and children are an exuberant match. Heather has found in her storytelling experience with young people that melody, rhythm, rhyme, and repetition of musical refrains keeps young listeners listening.
Mark Wagler built up a theory of narrative pedagogy, and a set of teaching practices that helped students experience their lives and the world around them as a story. In this podcast we talk about reshaping classrooms with narrative pedagogy or storytelling in teaching a practice to build an effective learning community.
Some might find it difficult to understand the benefit of storytelling to adolescent boys if the unique nature and difference of the teller’s art is not understood. Storytelling to this population requires some specific techniques.
Fran's main concern with this topic is the observation that many of our Environmental tales are downers. While our storytelling ancestors probably used them as cautionary tales, and they’re still valuable for that, she worries about the risk of discouraging young story listeners into paralysis–when what we want is to mobilize them.
Storyteller Brother Blue appeared on the Art of Storytelling with Children to talk about street storytelling and storytelling from the heart. I am very proud to bring you this conversation about street storytelling and everything else related to storytelling with storyteller Brother Blue.
Karen Czarnik is an amazing singer and storyteller in her own right. I saw her present a workshop on this topic at the Ohio Storytelling conference and was so impressed with her I had to being her on the Art of Storytelling with Children so that she could free up all of our voices for singing…
Storyteller Rachel Hedman writes... How do we as adults support the child tellers in our lives? What is the ways we can build relationships with child tellers? How are we as storytellers responsible for the respect and care that must be built between adults and child tellers.
How can we give birth to meaningful festivals that encourage the use of storytelling in building cultural bridges? What audiences can we serve or bring together using multicultural formats?
Larry Johnson writes... What if there was a storyteller in every school? What if children learned to move confidently in the world with fear of being speaking in public?
iTales.com started as a simple enough idea create a website to house bedtime stories I tell to my children. But what started as a simple project based on a love of storytelling, evolved into a much better and more complex idea, still based on a love of storytelling! That idea became iTales, a website that allows storytellers to upload and sell individual stories.
Librarian Julie Mills talks about Building a successful storytelling festival at your library and how to be a successful candidate for the festival as a storyteller.
Carolyn Franzini is the Director of the Cave Run Storytelling Festival of the most successful and prestigious storytelling festivals outside of Jonesborough in the United States in this interview she discusses how to run a storytelling festival successfully and How Storytellers Become Candidates for Telling at the Festival.
Steve Otto describes how the "Chicken festival" started a traveling storytelling festival designed to help spread the art of storytelling. Traveling to different areas of the state every two years.
Cover the following topics on this show; building a festival, grants, sponsorships, marketing, strategic planning for an organization, positioning the organization for continual growth. The need for clarity in your organizational plan and structure. Planning for the future...
In this interview with the Reverend Victoria Burdick, M. Div Hospice Chaplain ~ Celebrant we discuss how storytelling can be used in wedding ceremonies to create the ceremony. We also discuss how storytelling is used in hospice work.
What does Vision and Purpose have to do with being a storyteller? How does one find a vision and why is it important? What would a storytelling career look like if the artist in in alignment with ones purpose?
In this interview with Ellen Munds we cover how to create your mission statement or why you want to do a festival, Determine your target audience, Details such as indoor or outdoor, specific site for an event, accessibility, design and traffic flow of the site, Artistic Elements, Marketing and Public Relations, Funding, Budget, Volunteers, Care and Feeding of the storytellers, sponsors and volunteers, Evaluation of your Festival.
In taking our storytelling practice to the next level we as storytellers can look at how we limit our selves and our opportunities. Storytelling is an incredibly versatile field with a wide varieties and of approaches and techniques.
We wonder through text and storytelling talking about Copyright issues with Carol Birch. She says.. More opportunities equal more responsibilities is a simple explanation of copyright.
Cynthia Changaris says - When performing as a storyteller there are many ways to use songs. I use songs that stand alone, songs that relate to the subject of the stories, songs that connect a group of stories together, songs that teach wonder and reverence for the humanity and the world, songs that are sung by the character in the story, songs that are repetitive and provide an interlude or a point of movement of the story, songs to frame the story, and songs that are stories.
The scary story is one of the most popular genres. Children begin liking scary stories from about the age of 8 or 10, although the exact age varies with each individual child. Some children never like them. Scary stories seem to hold a fascination for adults as well as children.
Creating the Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival in Chillicothe has been an interesting journey. Bill Mckell talks about creating the Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival in Chillicothe.
Kevin Cordi is the co-author, with Judy Sima, of Raising Voices: Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes and according to the National Storytelling Network, “the first full time high school storytelling teacher in the country.” and is the founder of both Voices across America Youth Storytelling Project and the Special Interest Group now called Y.E.S. (Youth, Educators, and Storytellers.)
Stories are a natural for camps. Camps offers an opportunity to create a meaningful and memorable connection to the outdoor environment. Educational research suggests that this connection to the outdoors creates a highly charged environment that facilitates learning.
Improvisational storytelling is a teaching tool that is a cross between storytelling that I have been doing for years and improv techniques I learned in my college days. A conversation-with Stephen Hollen about using improvisational storytelling with children.
Jim Flanagan says that to tell a story, you must write it down. Before you tell it, you must have a point of reference, an outline, and then scratching a script. This is the beginning of using writing and storytelling with children in schools to teach the art of creating stories.
Judith Black says that adults edit and censor the stories they share with children. Making them solely out of our wants and objectives instead of based in our children’s needs, might result in robbing them of the greatest tool of transformation we have.
The Truth About Marketing. Most of the mass marketing we see around us is probably not good marketing - and it’s certainly nothing like what would make sense for a storyteller.
Lyn Ford says that breaking into storytelling isn’t quite the description that fits the beginnings of her career. It was more like leaping off the edge of a cliff, with all the materials to build a strong glider that would carry her wherever she should go, but no blueprint or directions on how to build the thing.
What we need to investigate and learn together is healing. In a time of great sickness nothing else should concern us. Healing the earth, healing society, healing our communities, healing ourselves.
Probably we are all aware of the cultural confusions and misconceptions that become evident daily in this world of instant updates. These errors in sensitivity can hurt feelings, and cause outright insults and rage in the offended.
Wow Weekends provide an opportunity for storytellers of all experience levels to gather as peers and grow in the art of telling stories. Using an artist-centered process, each participant will be able to use the collective wisdom of the group in service to the storyteller’s work.