AAEE Learning Circle: Story Ways. Environmental Storytelling for Educators

Join storyteller Anna Jarrett for an exploration of environmental storytelling as a powerful teaching tool and a way to connect people and nature. ‘Story Ways’ is a toolkit that introduces you to the foundations of working with oral storytelling.

Facilitated by: Anna Jarrett, Author & Professional Storyteller
When: Thursday 16 April, 5–6pm AEST
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free for all AAEE Members.

Registration for non-members is $10 for waged/$5 student/unwaged.

If you’re in a position to support us further, we invite you to make a small donation during your registration 💚 Donations to the AAEE Public Fund are tax-deductible (over $2).

What: Anna will share her depth of experience working with stories in diverse contexts; as a performance storyteller, outdoor educator, Discovery Ranger, shorebird educator, school teacher and photographer.

Learn the principles of what makes a good story and what makes a good guided experience. Combined with insights into: 

• Engaging community

• Influencing change

• Being an advocate

• Inspiring conscious conversations

• Using creative thinking to imagine futures

• Deep listening

• Walking with the land

Bring a notebook so that you can join some storytelling exercises.

Guest presenter: Anna Jarrett is a professional storyteller, photographer, published author, teacher and outdoor guide, living on Walbunja Yuin country, south coast NSW Australia. Anna brings 37 years of storytelling and community arts experience, with 15 years of conservation and shorebird education, to her environmental storytelling.

At the heart of Anna’s storytelling and education work, is the joy of feeling connected to our world and to each other. Anna’s dream is to bring story and oral storytelling back to the core of how we relate to, learn about, live in and care for our world.

In 2026, Anna will be collaborating with AAEE to launch some environmental storytelling initiatives and work towards growing an environmental storytelling network for educators.