Workshops
What We Do
Stoop workshops empower participants to develop and share their personal stories. Participants discover the evidence-based power of storytelling as a universal tool of communication, and learn accessible and actionable storytelling skills.
Experienced Coaching
Stoop co-founder and personal storytelling expert Laura Wexler draws on her experience as a story coach, writer, editor, and teacher to create workshops that are engaging, interactive, and inclusive. She is passionate about supporting people to harness the power of personal storytelling for a variety of benefits, from improving communication, to providing authentic leadership, to advocating for a cause, to telling engaging institutional stories, to building community.
Storytelling Matters
Storytelling is a great way to connect and build community. But it can also improve your quality of life. Laura works with researchers to explore the effects of applied personal storytelling in a variety of spaces. She recently designed and implemented an intervention for a grant-funded project studying how personal storytelling can improve patient outcomes after breast reconstruction after cancer.
Contact Laura Wexler, Stoop Education Director, to learn more or schedule a workshop.
What Participants Are Saying
“Laura served as a coach and advisor to a team of strategy consultants within Price Waterhouse Cooper who are considered ‘experts’ within the firm on the topic of organizational culture. Through one 3-hour session, she was able to teach a practical, disciplined approach that the consultants were immediately able to apply. Further, they have now come to see this skill as central to their ability to communicate and practice. Laura is a wise guide, both inspirational and highly practical.”
Gretchen Anderson, Director, Katzenbach Center
“Laura served as a coach and advisor to a team of strategy consultants within Price Waterhouse Cooper who are considered ‘experts’ within the firm on the topic of organizational culture. Through one 3-hour session, she was able to teach a practical, disciplined approach that the consultants were immediately able to apply. Further, they have now come to see this skill as central to their ability to communicate and practice. Laura is a wise guide, both inspirational and highly practical.”
“For two years in a row, Laura Wexler has led a storytelling workshop for a program called “120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders,” which brings a group of young, up-and-coming leaders in family planning/reproductive health from all over the world to the United States for a week of trainings and special events. Laura’s experience and genuine passion for personal storytelling comes through in every element as she expertly coaches these young people to share and shape their stories into compelling narratives.”
Marianne Ammos, Project Lead, 120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“For two years in a row, Laura Wexler has led a storytelling workshop for a program called “120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders,” which brings a group of young, up-and-coming leaders in family planning/reproductive health from all over the world to the United States for a week of trainings and special events. Laura’s experience and genuine passion for personal storytelling comes through in every element as she expertly coaches these young people to share and shape their stories into compelling narratives.”