Confab Storylab
Want to become a fantastic storyteller?
Discover the power of storytelling to enhance the effectiveness of your communications, to amplify your capacity to persuade, influence, and inspire others.
Confab StoryLab offers a variety of storytelling workshops and individual coaching sessions throughout the year.
1:1 coaching sessions, 6-week group workshops or weekend intensives, we have something for everyone.
1:1 coaching for business storytelling
Elevate your storytelling skills with our personalised coaching. A great story serves as a touchstone – both an entry point for your audience, and something to help you stand out in their memory. Whether sharing an impactful idea or structuring presentations for crucial meetings, we’ll help you express yourself in ways that capture attention, inspire action, and connect authentically with your audiences.
Services we offer:
- Public speaking: Amplify your leadership and influence change by elevating your speeches with powerful storytelling techniques
- High impact presentations: Integrate neuroscience-based storytelling techniques to give presentations with a lasting impact
- Business pitches: Captivate potential investors and excite stakeholders through persuasive and well-crafted proposals
Storytelling workshops
StoryLab offers in-person workshops for organisations and individuals in Montreal and Victoria, as well as online workshops for storytellers around the world. Dive deeper into the art of storytelling, while building a community, as you learn to shape and share your story with peers.
Upcoming workshop!
Confab StoryLab presents: It’s all in the timing
In this 6-week workshop, you will have the chance to develop a 2-minute story and a 6-8 minute story, and share one of your stories at a showcase for friends and family. Michele Luchs and Deb Vanslet will help you find the words and the rhythm of your story as you prepare it for the stage.
$300 for a 6-week workshop session + a showcase date for friends and family
September 30th to November 11, 2024 (no class on Thanksgiving Oct. 14)
Mondays 19h-21h IN PERSON
What You’ll Learn
Through our 1:1 coaching, one-day sessions, masterclasses, or workshop series, you’ll learn how to:
- Find your story
- Write, edit, and structure your story
- Offer and integrate feedback
- Present in front of live and virtual audiences
- Use storytelling techniques to better share ideas
Whether it’s on a stage,
in a job interview,
in a meeting room,
or at a networking event,
we’re going to help you
tell your story.
Meet our storytellers
Tap into the wealth of experience from our storytelling experts. They're here to accelerate your training, provide you with practical tips and tools you can apply to everything you learn.
Smriti Bansal
Smriti Bansal is a Montreal-based content-marketer and story coach who specialises in the art of business storytelling. She's worked with leaders in organisations including Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Braindate by e180, Fringe Festival, Creative Mornings and Grove Atlantic, helping them find their story, deliver memorable presentations, and forge deeper connections with their audiences.
Deb Vanslet
is a Montreal storyteller, writer and media artist. She has been telling stories at Confabulation since 2010, and has told stories at Yarn, Vancouver Story Slam, and Stories from the Stage at WGBH studios in Boston. In 2015, she won the 3Macs Carte Blanche QWF prize for her short story Self-Serve, and Ghost Station was published in the Queer Perspectives edition of The Malahat Review. Deb won the QWF Ian Ferrier Spoken Word prize in 2023.
Francesca Esguerra
is a writer, producer, drama therapist, and patron of many pets. She has been a part of the Confabulation team since 2019 and her true storytelling show Two Lives, premiered last summer at the Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe festival.
Michele Luchs
Michele Luchs is a Montreal-based storyteller and story coach who specialises in storytelling for non-profits and the education milieu. She has shared stories at Confabulation, This Really Happened, Yarn, The Mosquito Slam, Vancouver’s The Flame and Record Club, and is three-time winner of the Vancouver Story Slam. She has helped teachers, professors, scientists, librarians, and other professionals find their story, and use storytelling to better collaborate with others, present to diverse audiences, and develop stronger teams.
Matt Goldberg
Matt Goldberg is the founder and artistic director of Confabulation. Through Confabulation, he has taught storytelling and coached stories and pitches for students, professionals, artists and amateurs for a range of ages and backgrounds, and for all kinds of purposes. Matt is a Montreal-based comedian, writer, actor and storyteller. He is also a founder member of Uncalled For — an award-winning Canadian sketch and improv comedy troupe, based in Montreal and Toronto. He hosts the Confabulation podcast, and has performed at Fringe Festivals and storytelling shows across Canada, as well as at special events with Centre Phi, CBC Books and Just for Laughs. Matt teaches English literature and storytelling at Vanier College, in Montreal.
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