Speaking Turtle Speaks
Stories, Stories and More Stories
Designed for your specific objectives, needs, and goals

The Alchemy of Teaching Stories: Learning the Art and Craft of Creating Stories and Telling Teaching Stories...Being a Teaching Storyteller
This program is for social workers, teachers, counselors, psychologists and others who work to help others learn, change, grow and develop as well as for PARENTS.

- Using medicine drums, rattles, a Chinese gong, differetn hats, a medicine man flute, a conga drum, and lots of other stuff, RED BEAR brings STORIES ALIVE in programs, workshops, and retreats that are flowing and overflowing with laugheter, OH MYs, WOWs, OH YES, OH NOs, AHAs, deep listening, lots of PASSION, meaning and learning.

- Older Children, teenagers and adults LOVE Red Bear's Storytelling

- Programs, workshops and retreats can be designed for an shared at your highschool, junior high-middle school, college, group, event, organization, conference, meeting, business, or corporation.

-Storytelling Retreats have been held in Chicagoland area, Sedona, Arizona, Portland Oregon, and Devil's Lake Wisconsin. For more information about Red Bear (Kevin Dubrow LCSW) and a samplingof palces he has conducted programs and workshops see Background Information.

Since 1976 Red Bear has shared `modern stories, myths, legends, tall tales and fables. He draw son the wisdom of Native Americans, Jungian Psychology, Zen, Tao, Sufi, Nature, Animals of the Land, Water and Earth, Dragons, Coyote, and the Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples. He has created, recreated, borrows over 200 stories that lead to enjoyment, learning,change, and growth. He creates and tells a new stroy at every program, workshop, or retreat he does.

Red Bear is devoted, dedicated determined to keep the ORAL TRADITION, Ritual, and CEREMONY of Storytelling Alive.

Why Tell Stories
By Red Bear

- Inspires and motivates
- Arouses curiosity
- Learning, sensitivity, understanding and compassion for people different than you, people of other cultures and traditions, other ways of life, other spaces and places that people live in, a true sense of history and NATURE...the Natural World
- Inspired creativity and art
- Catalyst for change and growth, emptying, healing and transformation
- Plant seeds
- Teaches good listening skills
- Teaches how to understand and utilize symbols/metaphors
- Teaches how to look for meaning and learning
- Makes use of and encourages the listener's imagination
- Works through, under, around, below defensiveness and resistance
- Engages the listener's thoughts and mind
- Engages the listener's emotions and heart
- Help the listener see things and themselves in a different way
- Promotes and encourages dialogue/sharing
- Brings issues, conflicts, problems, concerns into the "Light"... that may be difficult in direct sharing
- Connects people together
- Conveys messages, teaching, learning in a different way (listener is quiet during story)
- Exposes listener to new ideas and ways of looking at and understanding things
- Stirs up emotions for discussion
- Ways to share when people are in pain and suffering
- Energizing for storyteller and listener
- Bringing to forefront morals, values, ethics that need to be explored (and changed)
- Great for small groups to hear and share about
- Welcomes the listener into different WORLDS.

The Storyteller
By Red Bear