The Storytelling Coach: How to Listen, Praise, and Bring Out People's Best (American Storytelling), Paperback

Winner of Storytelling World Award & the Pegasus AwardWhether we are in a business meeting, before a congregation, or in front of a class of students, we are always telling stories. In The Storytelling Coach, Doug Lipman shares his proven principles for teaching people to bring life and power to their stories. Lipman outlines his basic coaching principles, guidelines for emotional safety, the four primary obstacles to success, and suggestions for overcoming these challenges.Excerpts from actual coaching sessions provide the reader with dramatic moments of insight and transformation that follow good coaching. This book provides indispensable information for storytellers, actors, oral interpreters, salespeople, business managers, clergy, lawyers, and for all others who use spoken communication.

Doug Lipman Bio: Doug Lipman has been a professional storyteller and musician for 25 years and was a preschool teacher for five years. He is a regular presenter at the National Storytelling Conference where he teaches both beginning and advanced professional storytellers as well as amateurs. He enjoys eliciting the creative storytelling spark from children and teaching others to bring forth stories from children. As a workshop leader, Lipman facilitates groups of teachers, public and school librarians, school library media specialists, performers, and recreation leaders. He is a member of the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling and one of the founders of the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling. Lipman received his M.A. in creative writing from Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia. He did graduate study in English literature under a fellowship in playwriting from the Schubert Foundation, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.