What’s your story?

Whether you’re trying to build a business, lead an organization, or just be a person in the world - everyone has a story and finding its throughline can help you take the next step you need on your journey.

We can work together to:
strengthen teams
build healthy cultures
develop leaders
navigate change
engage young people
discover our potential
be wildly creative

Bring forth the stories in yourself you’d like to clarify and amplify, connect to a larger story, build community, and create capacity for joy, resilience, productivity, and impact.

What this can look like:
For Schools - artist-in-residencies and teacher development workshops
For Community Organizations – one-off workshops, multi-week creative projects, public performance and community events, strategic consulting with staff and board
For Businesses –corporate leadership coaching, team building
For International Partners – movement-based storytelling workshops, community building theatrical productions, arts-based English-language work, academic resource and knowledge sharing
For Individuals – career and creativementorship, artistic coaching

What does it look like for you? Let’s connect and collaborate!

“Shana is one of the most thoughtful and inspiring people that I know! She finds creative solutions to problems, but more importantly brings a spark to other people that enables them to find more within themselves and come together to achieve great things!”

Sample Workshops

Finding the Thru-Line: Storytelling for Team Success (Business/Corporate/Organizational)

What’s Our Story? - Re-define corporate team-building by breaking the mold with some improv, scene-work, and maybe even a little Shakespeare! Creative storytelling exercises open up possibilities for your work and expand your capacity to communicate with clarity and passion. Plus, experiencing your colleagues in new and fun roles helps you work together and move that project forward.

Get on the same page: understand how story works within yourself, within teams, and within community
Explore ways of generating, framing, and communicating story
Embrace fun and flexibility for increased focus and growth
Strengthen confidence, compassion, and curiosity  
Build capacity for the authenticity and clarity that forges strong teams and powerful branding
Unleash creativity, spontaneity, critical thinking, and empathy
Break out of your comfort zone
Train your voice to convey meaning, authority, and nuance
Have fun with an easy, accessible approach

“Our team loved your workshop! You exceeded our expectations.”

Writing Workshops (Individual and Group)

Together we personalize a plan of action to work towards your goals while deepening your own creative voice and clarity. Short story or a play you’re trying to finish? Lots of ideas but nowhere to start? College essay application have you questioning your own identity? Let me help you move forward! With decades of experience working with teens and adults, I can come in at any stage in the process, from prompt to final edit.

“You have this awesome intellectual mind that goes everywhere. Your ability to invent and imagine alongside me, and your cool strategies, and your deep, deep, knowledge of story structure have made a huge impact in my life and work.”

Performance Coaching and Mentorship (Professionals, Students, Citizens)

Everyone has an artistic journey. I’d like to help you clear a path and move towards your goals.

Presentation Prep - Expert in your field - but not in front of an audience? Review and polish your presentation, and present with confidence!
Performance Coaching for Artists, Educators, and the Self-Employed - We are all leaders of our own lives - and sometimes need the challenge and support of a performance coach to help align our goals, ethics, and actions.
Monologue finding and audition prep package - I’ll bring in a collection of monologues, and together we’ll pick a few that resonate with your needs and ambitions, and work them up so you’re ready to walk in and nail that audition! Got your own monologue? Happy to help you dust it off and get it sparkly!
Directing - an outside, critical and compassionate eye towards helping you help your team and serve the play.

“Thank you! You are such an awesome and wonderful coach--he is SO happy and focused. I think that writing is an unrecognized, vital ingredient of mental health for certain people….So grateful for you being there, waving your magic wand.”