Kate Farrell
Kate Farrell believes in the power of story. A graduate of the School of Library and Information Studies, UC Berkeley. She has been a language arts classroom teacher (pre-school and grades kindergarten through 12th), author, librarian, university lecturer, and storyteller in Northern California since 1966.
In today’s episode, Kate shares an adaptation from her latest book, Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories. Kate has always learned from challenges in her life, many of them continue to inspire her. As Kate shares, though trials make life difficult, they make the best stories. We can learn from one another’s stories, be encouraged, and take heart.
Kate founded the Word Weaving Storytelling Project, in collaboration with the California State Department of Education funded by grants from Zellerbach Family Fund, San Francisco, 1979-1991, to train educators at all levels, and published numerous educational materials.
Kate is the author of Word Weaving: A Storytelling Workbook, 1980; co-author of a monograph, Effects of Storytelling: An Ancient Art for Modern Classrooms, 1982; author of Word Weaving: A Teaching Sourcebook, 1984; producer and co-author of a training videotape, “Word Weaving: The Art of Storytelling,” 1983, distributed by the University of California, Berkeley; and author of the professional book, Storytelling: A Guide for Teachers, Scholastic, 1991. She is also senior author of Storytelling in Our Multicultural World, an oral language development program for early childhood education, published by Zaner-Bloser, Educational Publishers of Highlights for Children, 1994.
Kate edited the anthology, Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother, 2011. She is co-editor of the anthology, Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the ’60s & 70s, 2013—Finalist for Foreword Reviews 2014 Book of the Year Award and 2014 Indie Excellence Award. Farrell is co-editor for the anthology, Cry of the Nightbird: Writers Against Domestic Violence, 2014–Finalist for the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award and the 2015 Indie Excellence Award.
“I have always learned from challenges in my life, many of them continue to inspire me years later. It’s not only that trials take the measure of us, they often determine the direction of our lives.”
Tune in on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM
Tune in on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632
To connect with Kate visit her website https://katefarrell.net/ on Facebook Kate Farrell Storyteller and on Twitter @katestoryteller and check out her new book Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories and subscribe to her blog: https://storytellingforeveryone.net/
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, click here.