But learning to look at life’s tough times as part of a larger narrative can facilitate the healing process and make one feel less alone. This webinar will introduce you to basic storytelling principles to help you begin seeing your tough times as turning points. As you step back from your challenges, you may find that storytelling helps you see people and events in a different light.

The webinar will be led by Gail Thomas, a storyteller and storytelling coach who has turned her own tough times into stories. Between cancer, car crashes, relationship breakups, and more Gail has learned to find the humor and humanity in otherwise scary times. She’ll explain how to use narrative structure and sensorial detail to explore the depth and humor of everyday and not so everyday experiences.

Speaker Bio:

Gail Thomas is a storytelling teacher who coaches privately and teaches group classes for The Story Studio NYC. She loves helping each person find, shape and share their own unique voice. Her private clients work in sales, law, tech, education, finance, fashion, health and beyond; and she has taught storytelling workshops to businesses including Merck, Pitney Bowes Global UX department, Dentons, Ahimsa Ashram and Hour Children, and young people at the Girl Scouts, ROW NY, Legal Outreach, 826NYC and the Calhoun School.

A former lawyer, Gail has over 20 years of multimedia writing experience, as a writer and content strategist. Gail has also written speeches for over 30 live world-class events, such as the Tribeca Film Festival and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Los Angeles, crafting speeches and talking points for celebrities, politicians and executives, including Martin Scorsese and Bill Clinton. For more information, go to www.gail-thomas.com.

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