Thanks for asking, V!

Mine was one of the workshops scheduled for the first period of the day(each period being an hour and a quarter long), so things started off a bit slowly and we had some interruptions as latecomers trickled in. I ended up with 10 attendees. It took a while for me to "hit my stride", so to speak, so I felt like I wasn't engaging everyone in the topic to start with, but we all warmed up to it soon enough.

I started off by passing out a six-page handout of articles on prosody that I had found on various websites, for people to read later (and also to demonstrate the broadness of the topic and the different ways that different writers defined it). Then we had a brief, informal discussion of "what prosody means to you" and touched on some of the main points: major/minor key, tempo, meter, contrast, accentuation, scancion. We talked for a short bit about examples of good and bad prosody in popular songs.

Then I assigned a 20-minute writing exercise: take a few lines of a song you have written (or a song someone else has written) and "sound them out" for conversational flow, noticing which syllables were stressed, how voice inflection changed, etc. Then try to pick out a melody based on that sound, matching the pitch of your voice to musical notes. I wasn't looking for a "pretty" song to be written, I just wanted people to think about melody-writing in a prosodic way.

Then we re-convened to present to the group the results of the exercise. There were a lot of creative songs written, though most folks didn't really "do" the exercise I'd described. So for each presentation I made some comment about some element of the prosody that was on the mark or that could be improved, and the group discussed each song for a couple of minutes.

One guy who likes to write humorous songs made up a little ditty about how I was trying to teach them about prosody. His chorus started off with "Pros-o-DEEEE, pros-o-DEEE..." Of course, I had to point out that the PROS-o-dy of that chorus had a little problem! Then we chatted about how prosody can be intentionally "worsened" to make a funny song funnier. That discussion ended with another guy in the group singing "Pros-o-DEEEE, pros-o-DAHHH, pros-o-DEEEE, pros-o-DAH ha ha ha ha ha..."

I think everybody got a little something out of the workshop, and I hope they will follow up by reading my handout, exploring the topic further, and applying the principles of prosody in order to hone their songwriting skills.