Yesterday we hosted the 3rd annual Storytelling Competition for schools in Heathfield, Whitton and West Twickenham. It was a truly inspiring event featuring 59 very young storytellers from 9 schools. Some of the children were as young as six and they were all engaging, charming storytellers. As a Read more [...] Read More

I was half listening to Richard Dawkins http://richarddawkins.net/videos/645647-richard-dawkins-on-beautiful-minds-bbc-four-wed-april-25 some time ago on the BBC, whilst doing 3 other things of course! This set me off to thinking what a remarkable storyteller he is and how so many of the most accessible Read more [...] Read More

Following up the comments I made on how often our creativity is played down and not acknowledged I found this clip from Ira Glass, the American public radio broadcaster: Ira Glass on Creativity and Storytelling Right-click or ctrl-click this link to download In many ways this echoes Ken Robinson’s Read more [...] Read More

In my first blog post I began to explore the relationship between storytelling and creativity. I feel the two are not just intrinsically linked but that we all need creativity in our lives in order to thrive. It’s early days in my exploration of these issues so I have decided to leap in, much as I Read more [...] Read More

So often, when people find out what I do for the first time, they say: “But I could never do that!” And they really believe this! It’s rarely a child who will tell me that they can’t tell a story, most often it’s an adult. One who goes to meetings, deals with the bill that got left at Read more [...] Read More