How to Story
Conscious Storytelling Tools for Individual and Community Transformation
How to Story is a community of change-makers.
We teach children and adults that conscious storytelling and story-listening are more effective and healing than the content of the stories themselves.
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Explore the hidden power in your voice through directional storytelling.
Learn how to attract fairies, trolls, dragons, and nymphs to help you connect with any listener.
Discover how to connect with your child through bedtime storytelling.
Learn how to deliver the perfect bedtime story spontaneously, for any moment.
Live online courses for children and adults that teach Storytelling and Story-Listening Skills.
Our storytelling tools give a balanced focus to both storytelling and story-listening. We offer a lifetime of storytelling curriculum, beginning at age 5.
Learn Storytelling on the Go with our How to Story Podcast.
The How to Story Podcast offers tools, techniques, and original stories every week. Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform.
A library of stories for all.
There is a story for everyone in our free library. Read or listen to stories that demonstrate the transformative power of conscious storytelling. Browse and enjoy!
Meet David Sewell McCann.
David has been immersed in storytelling for over fifty years. In Kindergarten, David told stories to get out of going to school. And when teaching first grade, David told stories to help his students better understand the lessons. He has landed over 1,400 original stories for Sparkle Stories and has trained parents and teachers around the world. He can’t wait to meet you!
“When kind people tell the right stories, those stories spread, and we create the community of our dreams.”
— David Sewell McCann