Storytelling is Influence, Persuasion and Innovation.
Storytelling is Influence, Persuasion and Innovation.
Erudite Stories promotes the art of storytelling, spreading stories that will educate and make us wiser. The stories will evoke feelings, memories or images in our minds. The stories will excite our curiosity about our surroundings and people.
Swee Yean has been a full-time storyteller for 18 years and involved in the storytelling scene both in Singapore and overseas. She was President of the Storytelling Association (Singapore) for 4 years and the Creative Director of the 398.2 Storytelling Festival 2019, 2021, 2023 held annually at the National Library of Singapore.
Swee Yean’s storytelling skill and experience is diverse because of the wide range of people she has worked with. She was formerly a secondary school teacher teaching teenagers with low learning abilities to the highly gifted, applying cooperative learning & multiple intelligence learning strategies in the classroom. She can vary her style to engage with children, young adults, adults, and senior citizens. Her manner of storytelling is warm, inviting and non-didactic, stirring up empathy and creating gentle positive change.
Swee Yean has performed commissioned works for the Singapore Land Authority, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Malay Heritage Centre, Singapore Heritage Festival and more. She has also provided customised workshops on storytelling in education for organizations such as the Ministry of Education, National Library Board, Ednovation Pte Ltd, E-bridge Pre-school, special needs schools, pre-schools, government schools and churches.
Swee Yean has advocated the value of storytelling in organizational change. She has conducted workshops on harnessing the power of storytelling in the workplace for organizations like Toastmasters, Housing Development Board, National Technological University, Yale-NUS College, Nanyang Polytechnic, the Ministry of Education, and Singapore Discovery Centre.
Being fluent in the Mandarin, Swee Yean has taught storytelling skills to students, teachers and senior citizens. She has performed in neighbouring countries like Malaysia and Taiwan.
Recently, she carried out intergenerational storytelling projects for senior citizens digitally and onsite for seniors. The projects, supported by the National Arts Council, foster community building and improve their well-being.
Performances and workshops are 'tailor-made' according to the needs of clients. Since 1998, Swee Yean has been teaching to a variety of age groups and specialty groups on public speaking skills and storytelling techniques. education performing arts organizational storytelling Singapore
Come and see what's happening in the coming months.
There are books here that will inspire the storyteller in us.
Children can still enjoy an interactive and participative experience with storytelling on Zoom.
Seniors can lead an active life cognitively and socially through the digital format. It is limitless!
The pandemic has made us more resilient. Some storytellers got together to produce more than 100 videos that schools, parents and organizations can use for education, nation building, character moulding and entertainment.
I first got to see the art of storytelling by Swee Yean during the Silver Arts event and was impressed by the way storytelling could empower people and decided to approach Swee Yean and team to work with the elderly at our centre. Swee Yean not only brought joy & laughter but also friendship and safe space for our elderly to share their stories. Some of her strengths aside from storytelling was her humbleness and keen sense to learn that allows a person centric approach to take place & hence allowing empowerment to happen. It has been a privilege and wonderful experience working with Swee Yean.
Thank you for taking our students through the 3 sessions and preparing the scaffolded materials. You were also patient and encouraging, and our students need that.
瑞燕老师,经验丰富,用多元化的故事表演形式,通过儿歌、动作、声音,形体、道具等方式引导幼儿自发的呈现出故事,理解故事。在工作坊的过程中鼓励幼儿表现出华文故事,幼儿受益匪浅!
It was a pleasure having Swee Yean working with us to elicit our organizational stories! I enjoyed learning the storytelling strategies and appreciated how Swee Yean uses many stories to engage us through the sessions.
It was also a privilege to have Swee Yean’s professional help in refining each of our stories. This has certainly helped us to be better storytellers, especially telling our own stories.
Thank you once again for the fruitful session!
We absolutely enjoy Swee Yean’s session.
Swee Yean caters to one’s personal needs as she works with the participants individually; she is patient and provides clear and concrete guidance through the thinking process. As part of her facilitation, Swee Yean asks the right questions to help one think and reflect critically – this helps one to identify and assess deeply held assumptions.
Lastly, all the participants leave the session feeling inspired and empowered knowing that we are capable of owning and expressing stories of our own!
瑞燕老师的课,很生动活泼,在讲述理论的同时,能让学生分组进行操练,这样可以让学生能很快地消化老师所讲的理论知识。