IMAGINE
CreatE
FIND YOUR MUSE
then
TELL YOUR STORY
The Door to Imagination
TEACHER AND ADULT WORKSHOPS©
ODDS BODKIN
Storyteller, Author and Educator
We’re all storytellers.
The training examines imagination as a basic skill for today’s teachers, parents, psychologists, clergy––anyone who works with today’s children.
Developed over seven years of graduate level teaching and decades of real world experience, Odds Bodkin’s training is a step by step process that incorporates music and storytelling to train teens and adults to imagine freely and tell stories.
Mr. Bodkin combines performance, spoken word history, the insights of brain science and refreshing “cognitive experiments” to awaken the Inner Storyteller––the ancient connection between the Five Imaginations and language.
When awakened, the Five Imaginations––visual, auditory, kinesthetic, gustatory and olfactory––produce surprisingly vivid states of mental creativity and high-acuity memory.
The technique works for both classic and personal storytelling.
Course Flow:
• Who We Are and What We Want to Learn
• The Lost Paragraph Effect: New Media and Brain Evolution
• The Inner Storyteller: How the Voice in the Mind Frees its Visions
• Logos: The Ancient Maker of Meaning
• The Five Sensory Imaginations
• Experiment: The Bird in the Golden Cage
• Experiment: The Around the Bend Phenomenon
• Experiment: The Student A/Student B Dilemma (Memory Styles)
• Encountering Your Muse
• Applying Imagination to Your Work
• Using a Wordless Outline
• Your Strengths: Your Human Instrument and Multiple Intelligences
• Try Out Your Technique
Available in formats from 90-minute group presentations to multi-day practicums.
Selected Institutional Trainings/Commissions:
St. Paul’s School, theater training for HS students (part of week-long residency)
RSU1, Bath, ME, training HS students in storytelling (week residency)
Shining Mountain Waldorf School, Boulder, CO, adult training in storytelling
The Taft School, CT, student and teacher workshops
International Storytelling Institute, East Tennessee State University, adult training
John Cooper School, Woodlands, TX, teacher training
Rowe Camp Retreat Center, The Berkshires, MA, weekend storytelling retreats
The Nantucket Atheneum, Nantucket, MA, adult workshops
Lincoln Center Institute, New York, teaching artist trainings and LCI touring artist
Antioch New England Graduate School, 7 years adjunct professor, Education and Environmental Studies
Emerson College, Great Britain, The International Storytelling Symposium, training
The Art Institute of Chicago, docent trainings and exhibit-related commissioned stories
The Journeys School of Science, Jackson, WY, teacher training
First Unitarian Church of Worcester, MA, adult trainings
Health Care Presentations:
The Mayo Clinic, A Performance for Children and Visiting Families
Express National Summit for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Washington, D.C. (U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services)
“Medicine, Metaphor and Healing” Conference, Sacred Heart Hospital, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Other Selected Appearances:
“Healing the World One Story at a Time” Keynote Speaker, League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling Annual Conference
The White House
Harvard University
The Cambridge Forum (WGBH and NPR)
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, Washington, D.C.
Art of the Tale: Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center
Dartmouth College
Chautauqua, Boulder, CO
Syracuse University
Storyteller-in-Residence, The International Storytelling Center, TN
Featured Teller, The National Storytelling Festival
Press Quotes:
Wired Magazine: one of the “great voices” in modern storytelling
The New York Times: “a consummate storyteller”
Billboard: “a modern-day Orpheus”
USA Today: “seldom are storytellers so vivid and entertaining”
TimeOut New York: “a one-man vocal universe...the talk of the town”
