Jo Henwood, BA (Libr Sc), Tourism III Cert, Grad Dip Mus St, Grad Cert (Gifted Ed), M Cult Her, has done most of her teaching outside schools - museum education, gifted education, tour guiding, workshops in creative writing and storytelling, conference presentations, and over fifteen years with WEA. The core of all her work is storytelling and she is an Accredited Storyteller with Australian Storytellers and an Accredited Professional Guide with the Institute of Australian Tour Guides. Jo is President and co founder of the Australian Fairy Tale Society and winner of the 2022 Australian Fairy Tale Society Award. She was chosen to deliver the WEA 2021 George Shipp Lecture and mentor international storytellers in heritage sites for FEAST, the Federation of Asian Storytellers. Her workshops are story-rich and chatty, and her PowerPoints are filled with images not words. Jo relishes discovering fascinating new stories in history and literature and sharing these discoveries with her students.
