Storyteller Will Hornyak Inspires Imaginations At A Host Of Conferences And Seminars

By Joseph Magarac

Portland, Oregon: Fairytales for a conference of trial lawyers? Aesop at a breakfast roundtable for business executives?

Hard to imagine unless you've watched a skilled storyteller at work. But there is a budding group of such professional storytellers infusing myths and folktales, fables and tall tales into conferences and seminars throughout the country.

As well as entertaining their audiences, these storytellers draw upon sources of information and knowledge which may offer a unique approach, an uncanny insight into a given conference theme.

From Business Executives To Kindergartners, Storyteller Will Hornyak Can "Captivate, Suprise, Intrigue And Touch All Ages."

Storytelling Could Breathe New Life Into Spiritual Traditions From Ashkenazi To Zen

Portland, Oregon: Although religions disagree over just about everything, they do agree about one thing: the value of stories in communicating the essential aspects of their faith.

The greatest spiritual teachers were gifted storytellers and all spiritual traditions are a storehouse of parable and myth, history and legend.

But to actually hear someone embody those stories on any given Sunday in a church, synagogue or mosque is an experience rarer than a Latin Mass. It is one of the reasons that so many church services are dull as dirt. "Thou Shalt Not Kill," says the fifth commandment. But priests and ministers bore hundreds to death every Sunday and get away with it. It is the real reason I stopped going to church. I couldn't believe God would be that boring.