Crafting and telling difficult stories: A workshop for storytellers, writers and others

  • July 8, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Central Daylight Time

Ticket Price $40.00-$105.00 Register Now
Description

Everyone needs to know they are not alone in their experiences. Whether through personal narrative, traditional material, games, or fiction, shared stories help us talk about difficult things so we can recognize common ground, find more healing, and help others. Sharing these stories requires special attention to the needs of both the story crafter and the audience. This three-session Zoom workshop (July 8, 15, 22 2025) will help you shape your difficult story so you can share it safely, the audience can experience it deeply without worrying about you or themselves, and will give you the tools you need for a crafted, powerful story. If participants choose, we will have a recital so they can share their stories with others.

This workshop is three sessions, held on July 8, 15, and 22 at 7pmCT. Each session will last no longer than 90 minutes. Attendance is capped at 20 people so everyone can have individual attention. The workshop will not be recorded.

You can expect to learn:

  • Why telling challenging stories is important
  • How to identify these stories
  • Crafting techniques to support tellers and listeners
  • Ways to determine if a difficult story is ready to tell
  • Expert facilitation
  • A detailed handout
  • and more.
Date & Time

Tue, Jul 8, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Laura Packer

The stories we tell matter. Whether we are telling to kids, crafting a presentation for work, preparing for a concert, or something else entirely, what we say and how we say it is important. 

Listening matters. When we listen to each other we find understanding and compassion we might otherwise have missed. 

Storyteller, coach, and author Laura Packer has 30+ years of experience helping people create and share stories, listen to each other more deeply, and leading organizations and individuals to better stories and deeper self-understanding.. She understands the transformational power of storytelling and listening, and how they help us understand ourselves, each other, and the world.

In addition to her award-winning performance and writing work, Laura is an experienced coach and educator, helping people understand themselves, their stories, and their worlds.. Her coaching and teaching work ranges from storytelling to writing to creativity to social change and more, and has been described as "transformational."

As the sole proprietor of thinkstory.com, Laura helps for- and non-profits identify, craft and hone their stories. Whether for marketing, recruitment, fund raising, leadership, or something else, every organization has stories that need to be told.

Find out more at laurapacker.com and thinkstory.com