Saw a story-teller at the CFSA sustainable agriculture conference this past weekend, name of Gaines Steer.  He did a delightful presentation on the elements of storytelling, acting them out and demonstrating as he went along.  Some of the elements:
- be demonstrative
- give things away
- involve the audience, honoring their wisdom
- evolve your own style, your own voice

A quote from his newspaper, The Pronoia Times:  "The universal conspiracy-of-goodness had its day in court and won a class action against the combined forces of evil, doom and gloom, badassness, and doodoo.  Without benefit of legal counsel, the paradigm shift pronoia, won a precendented battle to represent the proven possibility that the "universe is a benign conspiracy on our behalf". 

cheers.