Some of Syd's most popular workshops include:
- Over the River and Through the Woods: Finding Stories in Our Lives
- Finding key moments in your life, developing them, and organizing the material into a polished story
- It Really Happened: Creating Historical Tales
- Researching a historical topic, identifying the central narrative, and shaping the material into a moving tale
- Just Start Her Over the Edge and Let Her Slide: A Storytelling Class for Beginners
- Techniques to remember a story, conquer stage fright, and tell effectively in any setting
- The Art of Storytelling: Master Class
- Exercises and critiques to help experienced tellers hone stories and perfect storytelling techniques
- Conducting Classroom Composers: Storytelling and the Art of Writing
- Storytelling activities for K-12 students that inspire story creation
- Everyone Has a Story: The Art of Oral History
- Interviewing techniques and editing suggestions to help create a coherent picture of someone's life
- It's My life: Having Your Students Discover Their Core Values
- Identifying important values by looking at the tales students choose to tell
- The Customer Is Always Right: Selling through Storytelling
- Defining the key ingredients of a company, firm, or product, and finding the stories to communicate these ingredients in a responsible way
- The Touch of Words: Healing Through Storytelling
- Identifying healing stories and exploring how to use them in a therapeutic setting
- When I Was Your Age: Storytelling as Life Review
- Mining a person's stories and discovering ways to record and tell those tales