This interactive workshop is designed to help attorneys gain skill and confidence in utilizing oral storytelling skills in the courtroom to effectively present their client’s story in diverse formats throughout the presentation of a case. Through discussion, demonstration and improvisational activities, workshop participants will examine ways to “illuminate” a sequence of events, present a holistic context, design convincing metaphors, and liberate spontaneous, descriptive speech. In order to develop narrative competency, participants will explore the basic tools of the storyteller: evocative words, sound, facial expression, body language, and gesture. Strengthening memory and imagination, participants will learn practical ways to efficiently sequence the details of a story from many points of view and how utilizing carefully chosen words and intentional story composition can impact a narrative’s meaning.
