Shane was commissioned to write an environmental story relating to the local river, raising awareness and the issues about its environmental protection.

The story ‘Little River’, was used in workshop format at a local school. The project was so successful that Shane was asked to take it into another school the following year.

One teacher said to Shane, “I wish you would come and work here as a teacher, I have never seen the children so engaged in the classroom”.  

Shane was commissioned to tell a story in the city's Cathedral, under the massive art installation ‘Gaia’ (mother earth), created by renowned international artist Luke Jerram. 

~ Shane was commissioned to co-facilitate a 12 week therapeutic ‘applied storytelling’ programme, in an infant school. The programme was so successful, that the school asked for the programme to be run twice more, with two other cohorts of children. In  total the project ran for 36 weeks..

~ He was also commissioned to put together and run a bespoke nature and storytelling programme, over eight weeks, for a secondary school cohort of students, who were all deemed ‘disengaged’ from their education.

The Head of Year saw a “noticeable difference” in almost all of the pupils attending.  

~ Shane was commissioned to put together and deliver a week of storytelling workshops in an infant school, to enhance the children’s ‘emotional’ language and literacy, through the mediums of oral story, drama and art work.    

~ Also, Shane has co-facilitated several storytelling workshops in Morocco for adult students learning English language. Some of the sessions involved storytelling through an Arabic speaking interpreter, while other sessions were in English. 

~ Shane also ran a workshop for an adult group of students with learning disabilities. The staff were surprised to see how much student engagement Shane managed to facilitate.