Support for Your Work
You deserve focused attention on your specific goals. Start with a package program or tell me about your specific goals and let’s create exactly what you need. Scroll down to find more information on Stage Naked signature courses, upcoming events where Kristin will be speaking.
If you are looking for the Certificate in Interpretive Guiding offered by the NAI, click here
Memorability and Storytelling
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This half-day program will level up your skills in the art of museum storytelling for relevance, having tying programs to goals, and engagement for lasting impact.
Students leave with an outline for their own impact story that can be used in existing programs or as the basis for a new program.
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This 16 hour course for 10-20 students will ground you in the key fundamentals of interpretation. Participants will learn how to organize a program whether you are giving a 1 hour lecture or a 2 week tour. We will cover audience analysis, turning a talk into an exploration, and how relatability and enjoyability can have audience members thinking about the experience long after they leave you.
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Modern audiences want to be part of what they are experiencing. So modern storytelling is increasingly interactive. Learn how to include a variety of interactions in the body of a talk, and use questioning structures to turn presentations into explorations. Programs Include:
Make it Memorable
Storytelling for Guides
Unleash your Vocal Superpowers
Complexity & Facilitation
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How to Handle Sensitive Topics and Polarizing Questions
In the world of international travel, the conventional wisdom is to keep things light, inspiring, and fun. After all – people on vacation don’t want a downer! And yet when people ask the question, you need to say something other than ‘oh I don’t get into that topic.’ The same is true for speakers. Whether you want to get into a subject that will likely split the room, or you get asked a question you worry is a can-of-worms waiting to blow up, the truth remains that the toughest subjects are often the ones people most want help navigating. And in that moment, every speaker is a guide. In this facilitated conversation, you will get to explore a strategy that she has seen spark curiosity, exploration and engagement time after time.
Three Takeaways
1) Participants will discover how to break out of polarizing structures that create unwinnable conversations
2) Participants will be able to create useful complexity that in turn can spark empathy
3) Participants will learn to recognize ‘invisible’ polarizing language and develop frameworks that keep more people in more conversations.
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Modern audiences want to be part of what they are experiencing. So modern storytelling is increasingly interactive. Learn how to include a variety of interactions in the body of a talk, and use questioning structures to turn presentations into explorations. Programs Include:
Going Dialogic
How Do You Know That?
Productive Discomfort - coming 2025
Ongoing Support
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Are you ready to make your programs engaging, interactive, and appealing to new audiences? Most programs have plenty of jumping off points to start increasing the amount of audience participation from the simple use of questioning strategies to full dialogic programs using an arc of dialogue model. Together we focus on whichever aspect of your work you like - program design, interaction, storytelling, relevance, or a little of each!
$150/hr. Package rates available.
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Do you have a program you want reviewed for it’s foundational strengths and opportunities to get more juice for the squeeze? We will review your goals/audience/theme, up to 1 hour of a program (either live or pre-recorded) and give you your feedback in either a 30 minute live zoom conversation or a written summary.
$250
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Are you looking for support as you develop something new, or redevelop something existing? This package includes:
evaluation of 1 program outline including your goals/objectives and audience analysis.
3 45-minute calls as you iterate and develop
Evaluation of final program with feedback - 90 minutes
$600
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Need interpretive support without having a full time interpretive planner on staff? The Interpreter in Residence program allows you to set the pace. Custom packages of site visits, program evaluations, leadership and team trainings will allow you to meet your program goals.
Contact for pricing.
Upcoming Events & Signature Classes
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Interpretive Impact Storytelling
Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT. March 4th. (In-House)
Elevate your skills in the art of storytelling for relevance, impact and connection and engage visitors in ways that are more personal and lasting. Turn ‘something to do on a Saturday’ into a personal and inspiring experience. Tools include:
Using a ‘big idea’ to connect public to programs to organizational goals
A ‘plain speech’ approach when sharing science or history with visitors
Use of ideas and experiences familiar to the audience to spark connections
Story tools like dramatic arc, stakes, and characters to deepen interest
Layered questions that engage visitors with multiple perspectives
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Touchy Subjects For Speakers
March 13th, Doors Open at 5:30. New Haven, CT
In the world of international travel, the conventional wisdom is to keep things light, inspiring, and fun. After all – people on vacation don’t want a downer! And yet when people ask the question, you need to say something other than ‘oh I don’t get into that topic.’ The same is true for speakers. Whether you want to get into a subject that will likely split the room, or you get asked a question you worry is a can-of-worms waiting to blow up, the truth remains that the toughest subjects are often the ones people most want help navigating. And in that moment, every speaker is a guide. In this facilitated conversation, you will get to explore a strategy that sparks curiosity, exploration and engagement time after time.