"Mommy, Daddy... Can You Tell Me a Story?"

I want to share something with you.

My daughter frequently asks me, “mom, can you tell me a story?”. Whenever she asks me this, I feel SO helpless! I don’t know how to tell stories. I know there is a beginning, then something happens, and then there is an end. But how do I effectively string all this together?! 

The times where I do manage to put something together, she LISTENS SO INTENTLY, I feel SO EMOTIONALLY CONNECTED, and I feel like I have just taught her a set of values and cultural norms that I so strongly desire for her to know. 

And that’s why I initiated this 90 minute storytelling workshop on Monday, November 2nd @ 8:45 pm EST - to be able to CONFIDENTLY TELL STORIES to my children - about our family, our values, and about our prophets and other honorable people from our traditions. 

This workshop goes into:

1. The power of storytelling

2. How to become a GREAT storyteller

3. The BICEP method for telling a story (created by Ustadha Rukayat)

4. Understanding your audience (ie. what is important to each age group)

We will apply all of these to stories from the seerah, and then have a chance to write our own stories. We will end with a breakout session where we can practice what we have learned in smaller groups.

I hope you are able to join - this is going to be a very unique and applicable workshop, iA.