I yelped "Yes!" when I read this quote from the Anecdote.com site:
I have found that even some of the best organizational storytelling books often fail to make storytelling come alive and really show how to use it.
Thus, it's great news that Shawn Callahan and his crew at Anecdote.com have brought out The Ultimate Guide to Anecdote Circles and provided it as a free download.
The Web site notes:
Anecdote circles are a narrative technique like focus groups except they're facilitated to elicit stories rather than judgement and opinion. The collected stories reveal what is really happening in your organisation and what people value. Anecdote circles are a powerful tool to gain insight and new perspectives.
Hi there,
It’s Irina here. Although my interest in narratives comes from a linguistic perspective, I have been reading your website with great interest and find it extraordinary that you stimulate organizations to become more aware of their storytelling potential & practices.
What’s seems to me very important is that this processs allows narrativity to find its way into societal recognition in other forms than aesthetics or ludic activity. In other words, to be taken more seriously …
Despite the novelty of your perspective, narrativization is definitely not a new tool for building, maintaining and perpetuating institutional infrastructure.
I was just curious to know whether in your practice you have come across any form of resistance to what might be called “democratization process” ?
Thank you in advance, Irina