Doug Lipman

In 1970, Doug Lipman was a struggling teacher of troubled adolescents. He had given up connecting with them when one day, by accident, he found himself telling them a story. They responded! Doug has been helping others (around the US and abroad) achieve similar effects through storytelling, ever since. His passion for telling stories has led to his other major passions: teaching storytelling and coaching storytellers. He has pioneered both 1) organic ways to grow stories and 2) a system for coaching that doesn't substitute the coach's creativity for that of the teller, but helps liberate the teller's own creative intelligence. In 2017, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for "sustained and exemplary contributions to storytelling in North America."