Everybody Has a Story
Identity, voice, experience, and the importance of telling your own story.
Workshop Topics
Stories, Skills & Space to Create
Student workshops and adult professional learning, customized for your community.
Student Workshops
Feel It. Name It. Write It.
Using writing and storytelling to explore emotions and SEL.
From Imagination to Bookshelf
How an idea becomes a finished children's book.
Characters Have Feelings Too
Character development meets empathy, motivation, perspective, and emotional intelligence.
Write the World You Want to See
Representation, belonging, identity, and inclusive storytelling.
Poetry Is My Superpower
Using rhythm, imagery, emotion, and wordplay to express yourself.
Young Authors Lab
Students create and develop stories of their own.
AI Is a Tool, Not the Author
An age-appropriate exploration of AI, creativity, bias, originality, ethics, and human authorship.
Create a Space Now
A collaborative storytelling experience centered on voice, community, creativity, inclusion, and belonging.
Adult & Educator Workshops
- SEL Through Story
- Representation Is Part of Literacy
- SEL Beyond the Bulletin Board
- Helping Children Tell Their Own Stories
- Inclusive Storytelling Without Tokenism
- Poetry, Reflection & Emotional Expression
- AI, Authorship & Education
- From Classroom Idea to Classroom Book
Choose the topics that fit your community.
Request a Customized Workshop Shakeema FunchessAuthor • Educator • Poet • SEL Advocate • Creative Learning Facilitatorbooks@adventuresinzen.com518-269-8326www.adventuresinzen.comProgram inquiry
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