Some people are born talented but most of us start with a passion to know and need to learn the necessary skills.
Jo will feed that passion by teaching you the skills you need to follow your bliss. She will get you started....
and nothing need stop you going as far as you wish.
You can choose from one of her existing workshops or talk to Jo about creating a presentation or event
for your specific needs.
These workshops can be presented live or online.
Jo will feed that passion by teaching you the skills you need to follow your bliss. She will get you started....
and nothing need stop you going as far as you wish.
You can choose from one of her existing workshops or talk to Jo about creating a presentation or event
for your specific needs.
These workshops can be presented live or online.
You are a wonderfully talented and sharing person and an excellent juggler of people, ideas and happenings.
Jackie Hawkes Glenwood High School
What workshops does Jo offer?
STORYTELLING
CREATIVE WRITING
MUSEUM EDUCATION
SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES
Storytelling, craft, games, challenges and activities -
- Basic Storytelling Skills
- How to tell stories to children
- Storytelling and Story Reading
- How to tell historical stories
- How to tell ghost stories
- How to tell mysteries
- How to re tell fairy tales
CREATIVE WRITING
- Foundations of Creative Writing: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced
- Writing for Print and Performance
- World Building: art making for your writing
- Writing love stories, sweet and sour
- Red blood, black hearts, gold treasures: re telling fairy tales
- Snip and stitch: writing historical stories
- Writing Ghost Stories
- The Seven Basic Plots
- Writing redemption stories
- Foundations of tour guiding
- Using storytelling in heritage sites
MUSEUM EDUCATION
- Museum theatre in museum education: storytelling, games, art, role play, dance
SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES
Storytelling, craft, games, challenges and activities -
- Latin American myths
- Celtic and Viking myths
- Asian myths
- historical plant hunters
- farmyard animals
- fairy tales from around the world
- Australian animals
- voyages and shipwrecks
- Australian women's history
What events has Jo organised?
- World Storytelling Day Sydney 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015
- Australian Fairy Tale Society conference 2021, 2020, 2018, 2015, 2014
- Sydney Fairy Tale Ring from 2014
- Museums Australia Education NSW (MAEdNew) Professional Development Days - curriculum links, diverse representation, using technology, historical programs, brain based learning, Teaching Touchy Topics, school- museum relationships
- Norman Lindsay Festival of Children's Literature - free activities
- Tales and Tunes at the Trust
" exciting interesting interactive, jo has an amazing memory bank. I could have more of her talks"
"great presentation good diverse group of people excellent teacher”
Therese Scott Ashfield Library