Meet Our Team

Lead Teacher & Trainer

I've been working with narrative my whole life, and it has become my matrix and context for just about everything. I've been a painter, a filmmaker, an elementary school teacher, an author, and writer/teller for Sparkle Stories, and over and over again, I have found storytelling to be the most enduring and clarifying form of connection. It works when nothing else can, and it is teachable.

Co-Teacher & Head of School

I have been a classroom teacher for over thirty years and now I combine my education experience and training with certifications in Living Inquiry Methods, Enneagram and Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement to support Restorative Storytelling training and storytelling and superhero courses for our online children's school Story Steps Education.

Adjunct Faculty

Per is a therapist practicing Open Dialogue family therapy with kids and families to co-create new stories. I find that when we engage in dialogue together, the world around us shifts and we discover things that didn’t previously exist.

He and David collaborated on a popular storytelling card game called Tailors. You can get your own deck at Tailors Games.

Adjunct Faculty

Laura is an applied theatre practitioner, teacher, and artist tending the social soil to create peace, change, and connection. She offers tools from interpersonal somatics, movement arts, creative drama, and applied neuroscience to change the patterns within structures of oppression and help us occupy our concentric bodies of connection from the cell to the soul to the source and back again. Laura is an American who lives and works in Sweden where she sticks out like a clown even without the red nose.

Adjunct Faculty

Crystal Shelley is the owner of Rabbit with a Red Pen, where she provides editing and authenticity reading services to fiction authors. Drawing on her background as a licensed clinical social worker, she unites her love of language and her passion for social justice by advocating conscious language use and inclusive representation in her editorial work. She is the creator of the Conscious Language Toolkits for Editors and Writers and serves on the board of ACES: The Society for Editing. Connect with her on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Adjunct Faculty

Jason is a multi-disciplinary performer and teacher who has been involved in theatre, dance, music, commercial acting, voice-overs, and education for over 30 years.