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

by Doug Lipman

Book Overview

Lipman outlines his basic coaching principles, guideines for emotional safety, the four primary obstacles to success, and suggestions for overcoming them. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874834341
• ISBN13: 9780874834345
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Terrific book on coaching storytellers

Great advice and beautifully written and organized too. Vivid stories from various storytelling traditions and from the author's experience clarify his points. I'm enjoying it and learning a lot about coaching storytellers, too.

Become a better storyteller!

At storytelling festivals around the country, I have overheard storytellers--some librarians or teachers, but many just people who want to hone their skills spinning a story--recommend this book to each other. It is a very nurturing treatment of the hurdles to effective oral communication. Even preachers and insurance agents will benefit by its advice.