- Types of stories
- What do we learn from stories?
- Effective incorporation of stories into your training
- Secrets of a storyteller
- The deconstruction of a story
Hi’ilani Shibata
Hi’ilani Shibata, born and raised in Hilo on the island of Hawai’i. She attended the University of Hawai’i at Mänoa and received a Baccalaureate of Arts in Hawaiian Language. While attending the University of Hawai’i, she served as a program assistant for Kükamaile, a Hawaiian Language Immersion Curriculum Development Grant that encouraged her interest into the education field as well as taught her the basics of curriculum development and implementation. She became a part-time Hawaiian Language teacher at Kailua Intermediate and then pursued a career in education with the Bernice P. Bishop Museum Education Department. Hi’ilani, through the museum developed, implemented, and supervised the education programming for the Bishop Museum at Kälia at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. She then served as the Education operations manager at the main campus of Bishop Museum for the past 8 years. Last year for APEC 2011, Hiʻilani served as the lead cultural trainer for the training of over 3,000 community members statewide.