Workshops
Live, interactive storytelling workshops for college admissions, careers, and beyond
Revision Learning’s workshops help students, educators, professionals, and organizations learn how to identify meaningful experiences, connect the dots across their journeys, and talk about themselves in clear, compelling ways. Participants develop the skills to name what matters, point to specific moments, and shape those experiences into stories that resonate.
Grounded in the Moments Method®, our workshops are hands-on, reflective, and adaptable—designed to meet participants where they are and give them tools they can use immediately and return to over time.
Our Workshop Approach
Whether we’re working directly with students or professionals, or partnering with educators, coaches, organizations to build storytelling capacity within their communities, all Revision Learning workshops:
Begin with lived experience as the foundation for story
Emphasize reflection, specificity, and growth
Balance structure with creativity
Are tailored to the audience, goals, and context
Can be delivered virtually (Zoom) or in person
Workshops can stand alone or be combined with platform access, curriculum, and 1:1 coaching for deeper, sustained impact.
Workshop Formats
We offer two primary workshop formats—direct and train-the-trainer—depending on your goals and who you want leading the work.
Direct Workshops
We work directly with your students, professionals, or participants.
In direct workshops, Revision Learning coaches lead live, interactive sessions that help participants identify meaningful experiences and shape them into strong, authentic stories.
These workshops are ideal when you want:
Expert facilitation without adding to staff workload
Consistent instruction across a cohort or program
Immediate, hands-on impact for participants
Train-the-Trainer Workshops
We train educators, counselors, advisors, and leaders in our approach.
In train-the-trainer workshops, we equip educators and leaders with the tools, language, and frameworks they need to support storytelling work independently and consistently within their own contexts.
These workshops are ideal when you want:
A shared storytelling framework across a team or organization
Sustainable internal capacity beyond a single workshop
Classroom-ready tools educators can use immediately
Participants receive classroom- or workshop-ready materials—including slide decks, lesson plans, and worksheets—to support ongoing implementation.
Workshop Focus
Revision Learning offers workshops in two primary content areas, college admissions essays and career stories. While both are grounded in the same storytelling framework, each focuses on different goals, audiences, and outcomes.
College Essay Workshops
Focused on helping students tell authentic, reflective stories for college applications.
College essay workshops help students identify meaningful experiences and shape them into compelling personal statements, supplemental essays, and scholarship essays, while supporting educators in developing a clear, consistent approach to guiding authentic student work. These workshops emphasize reflection, specificity, and growth while demystifying the college admissions essay process.
Focused on helping professionals articulate skills, experience, and character through meaningful career stories.
Career Stories
Career storytelling workshops help professionals connect the dots across their experiences and identify particularly meaningful moments they can use to communicate their skills, experience, and character with clarity and confidence. At the same time, these workshops support leaders and educators in developing a clear, consistent approach to guiding professionals as they articulate and refine their career stories across different contexts.
College Essay Workshops
For students and educators
Our college essay workshops support both students and the educators who guide them. Through direct student workshops, we help students identify meaningful experiences and shape them into compelling, reflective personal statements, supplemental essays, and scholarship essays. These sessions demystify the college admissions essay process while strengthening writing skills, confidence, and self-awareness.
Through train-the-trainer educator workshops, we support counselors, teachers, and advisors in developing a clear, consistent approach to guiding authentic student work—helping them understand what to look for in strong essays and how to support reflection, specificity, and growth.
Across both formats, workshops emphasize authenticity over performance, helping students communicate values, perspective, and growth rather than trying to write what they think admissions readers want to hear.
Direct Student College Essay Workshops
During student workshops, we work directly with high school students to help them generate ideas, draft essays, and revise their writing using a clear, guided storytelling process. Core workshops focus on foundational storytelling and college essay skills, while advanced workshops build on that foundation to address specific essay types and prompts.
Core Student Workshops
Core workshops introduce students to foundational college essay writing skills using a clear storytelling framework. Students leave with a complete personal statement draft and a repeatable framework they can use to approach other college essays with confidence.
Essay Essentials: An introduction to the Moments Method® and the role of storytelling in college admissions. Students build a portfolio of story ideas they can use across applications and scholarships.
Personal Statement: Guided drafting sessions using the StoryBuilder platform. Students leave with a complete personal statement draft.
Essay Editing: Step-by-step revision support focused on clarity, structure, and detail.
Advanced Student Workshops
Advanced workshops build on the storytelling skills introduced in core sessions and focus on applying those skills to specific college essay prompts and requirements.
Some topics we’ve covered* include:
UC Personal Insight Questions
Scholarship Essays
Why This Major Supplemental Essays
Challenge or Failure Essays
Leadership Essays
Identity & Background Essays
Extracurricular Impact Essays
Common Supplemental Essay Types
Coalition Application Essays
School-Specific Supplemental Essays
*Don’t see what you’re looking for? We regularly design custom student workshops based on a school or organization’s students, goals, and application contexts. Reach out to explore a tailored option.
Train-the-Trainer Educator College Essay Workshops
Our educator workshops support counselors, teachers, and advisors in developing a shared, consistent approach to guiding students through the college essay process, with an emphasis on authentic student voice and meaningful reflection.
Introduction to Teaching the Moments Method®: Educators learn how to teach the Moments Method® as a clear, repeatable framework for student storytelling, including how to support brainstorming, drafting, and reflection across college essays.
How to Provide Question-Based Feedback on College Essays: Educators learn how to give effective, question-based feedback that helps students clarify ideas, deepen reflection, and strengthen structure—without rewriting essays or diminishing student voice.
Core educator workshops introduce counselors, teachers, and advisors to the Moments Method® and provide a shared foundation for supporting student storytelling. Educators learn how to guide brainstorming, drafting, and reflection using a consistent framework that reinforces authentic student voice throughout the college essay process.
Core Educator Workshops
Supporting Career Storytelling Using the SEC Framework
Coaching Interview Stories
Supporting Career Transitions & Pivots
Guiding Networking & Relationship-Building Stories
Coaching Leadership & Management Stories
Supporting Impact & Results Stories
Coaching Career Stories Without Over-Editing
Advanced educator workshops build on the core framework and focus on applying storytelling strategies to specific aspects of the college application process. Educators deepen their skills in areas such as letters of recommendation and supplemental essays, with an emphasis on consistency, alignment, and meaningful, question-based feedback.
Some topics we’ve covered* include:
Advanced Educator Workshops
*Don’t see what you’re looking for? We regularly design custom educator workshops based on a school or organization’s goals, programs, and application context. Reach out to explore a tailored option.
Questions about our college essay workshops? Reach out to us today!
Career Storytelling Workshops
For professionals and the leaders who support them
Our career storytelling workshops help professionals translate their experiences into clear, cohesive narratives they can use across interviews, cover letters, networking, leadership, and professional communication.
Rather than focusing on a single outcome, these workshops help participants develop stories that can travel across contexts—allowing them to adapt their narratives as goals, roles, and audiences change.
Through direct workshops, we work with professionals to develop and refine their own career stories. Through train-the-trainer sessions, we support leaders and educators in building a clear, consistent approach to guiding career storytelling within their organizations.
Direct Professional Career Storytelling Workshops
During direct career storytelling workshops, we work directly with professionals to help them identify meaningful experiences, connect the dots across roles, and develop clear, cohesive career stories using a guided storytelling process. Core workshops focus on foundational storytelling skills for career contexts, while advanced workshops build on that foundation to apply storytelling to specific professional goals and settings.
Core Professional Workshop
Introduction to Career Stories: Professionals learn how to apply the science of storytelling to make sense of their experiences and connect the dots across roles, moments, and milestones. Participants build a portfolio of stories that reveal their Skills, Experience, and Character (SEC) and learn how to adapt those stories for interviews, applications, networking, leadership, and other professional contexts.
This core professional workshop introduces participants to foundational career storytelling skills using a clear, guided storytelling framework. Professionals leave with a repeatable approach for making sense of their experiences and communicating their Skills, Experience, and Character (SEC) across different professional contexts.
Advanced Professional Workshops
Cover Letters
LinkedIn Profiles
Interviews
Elevator Pitches & Introductions
Networking & Relationship-Building Stories
Career Transitions & Pivots
Leadership & Management Stories
Impact & Results Stories
Organizational Impact Stories
Advanced professional workshops build on the storytelling skills introduced in the core session and focus on applying those skills to specific career contexts, goals, and professional requirements.
Some topics we’ve covered* include:
*Don’t see what you’re looking for? We regularly design custom professional workshops based on a school or organization’s goals, programs, and application context. Reach out to explore a tailored option.
Train-the-Trainer Leader Career Storytelling Workshops
Our career storytelling train-the-trainer workshops support leaders, managers, and career-supporting professionals in developing a shared, consistent approach to guiding others through career storytelling, with an emphasis on authentic voice, meaningful reflection, and connecting the dots across experience.
This core professional workshop introduces participants to foundational career storytelling skills using a clear, guided storytelling framework. Professionals leave with a repeatable approach for making sense of their experiences and communicating their Skills, Experience, and Character (SEC) across different professional contexts.
Core Leader Workshop
Teaching Career Storytelling: Leaders and career-supporting professionals are equipped with a clear framework for teaching career storytelling within their organizations. Participants learn the core storytelling principles behind the Moments Method® while also refining their own career stories, so they can model effective storytelling and confidently guide others in articulating skills, experience, and character across career contexts.
Advanced Leader Workshops
Advanced professional workshops build on the storytelling skills introduced in the core session and focus on applying those skills to specific career contexts, goals, and professional requirements.
Some topics we’ve covered* include:
Coaching Career Stories Using the SEC Framework
Supporting Interview Stories
Supporting Career Transitions & Pivots
Supporting Networking & Relationship-Building Stories
Coaching Leadership & Management Stories
Supporting Impact & Results Stories
*Don’t see what you’re looking for? We regularly design custom leader workshops based on a school or organization’s goals, programs, and application context. Reach out to explore a tailored option.
Questions about any of our career storytelling workshops? Reach out to us today!
Your stories are powerful. Let us help you tell them.
You already have incredible stories waiting to be told. Our job is to help you uncover them, shape them, and share them with confidence. Whether you’re applying to college or taking the next step in your career, your story is the key, and we’re here to help you tell it with purpose and power.
Ready to begin your storytelling journey?