“I enjoyed the progression from “I can’t think of stories” to “I can’t believe that I’ve just delivered a story.”

“Inspiring, thought-provoking and fit for purpose.”

“Very enjoyable and I feel I could use this in many areas of my life.”

“The training has given me the confidence to encourage children in my care to shape their own stories rather than use books and to extend the stories to incorporate related activities.”

“Very informative and full of useful ideas to encourage and interact more with my minded children. Story time will not be the same.”

“The course enabled me to see that there are other ways of telling stories which involve the children in the process.”

“There is no greater joy than sharing your child’s imagination. Storyshaping has opened up new worlds for our family. Storyshapes is a whole new experience of learning.”

“I really enjoyed the training, would have liked it to be longer. Lots of ideas that are simple to use with my families. Look forward to having a go.”

“Packed full of ideas and prompts to help me get the confidence to make a story instead of just reading or telling a story. Gives me another skill to help improve the sessions at my library.”

“I found it really useful using the shapes as a structure to create stories, and the story to be the group’s own story rather than the storyteller’s.”

“Great story sharing technique which helps parents/professionals feel confident about telling stories – gives them a narrative structure. Inspiring use for families and communities.”

“Stories help to develop imagination and vocabulary and for us teachers and nursery nurses it is good to have this exercise.”

“Extremely happy with session. I feel that the tutor was very effective and good in delivering the session. Tutor made the session easy to understand and gave me a lot of good ideas. Tutor was very warm and welcoming and I am very happy.”

“I feel that Storyshaping is a good way to get children to make their own stories which they love, the training was very good and I look forward to making stories with my family as well as the children who come to the mobile library.”

“I really enjoyed learning how to make stories and put them in order.”

“I can’t believe that such simple shapes can prompt and create such wonderful stories.”

“Fantastic method of using tactile pointers to encourage and remind children about the key features of any story. This is particularly useful for bi-lingual pupils.”