Stories for kids and grownups

Storytelling for all ages

Once upon a time there was a woman named Cathy who loved stories. She loved folk tales and fairy tales. She loved family stories and nonsense stories. She loved to tell stories and she loved to listen to stories.
She never got tired of stories.

Sometimes Cathy would go to schools, hospitals or senior centers and tell stories. Sometimes she just stood in front of a bunch of strangers and told stories. Sometimes, right in the middle of a playshop, she would take time out to tell stories. She told funny stories, scary stories, serious stories and magic stories.
Cathy loved the stories.
Everybody else loved the stories, too.

Cathy had games and props to help people tell their own stories. Sometimes they told family stories. Sometimes they made up fantastical tales of wonder. Sometimes their stories just went around and around and around and around and around.
Cathy loved the stories.
Everybody else loved the stories, too.

They never got tired of stories!
To this day, they are telling stories.
They are living happily ever after.

Storytelling activities to try

• Memory Stories
• Storytelling Game

Selected storytelling clients

International Expressive Arts Therapy Association Conference (IEATA), Toronto, Canada
October 1998 - Storytelling. Audience: Art therapists.

St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
1996 to present. Storytelling. Audience: Staff and patients.

Generations Together, Pittsburgh, PA.
1999. Storytelling. Audience: children.

Heartwood Storytelling Schoolbus, East Hills Elementary School, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 to present. Storytelling. Audience: children enroute to school. Regular teller for Heartwood Institute's programs featuring tales of ethics and values.

Pittsburgh School for the Blind
1997 and 1998. Storytelling. Audience: clients with disabilities.