Story Practitioners: A Running List of Story Practices, People, Initiatives, and Organizations

“Nothing changes until the story changes,” says Mette Norgaard, who puts on workshops and has written The Ugly Duckling Goes to Work, with workplace wisdom based on Hans Christian Andersen stories.
The Circle Project:
We provide innovative learning experiences in communities and organizations by creating surprise, energy, depth, and relationship around difficult issues like diversity and inclusive leadership. We do so using story, theatre and experiential processes, forming creative and safe spaces where people don’t have to be clever, but are free to truly learn and explore. We help individuals in organizations deepen their working relationships across difference, transforming how they work together in the process and enhancing their capacity for innovation. Our work is more oriented toward learning (a process that leaves us changed) than toward problem-solving (a process focused on changing our surroundings) because we believe that changing our surroundings can only come after we ourselves are changed in some way.
Evelyn Clark, The Corporate Storyteller, has an article about organizational storytelling in Reader’s Digest Asia.
Rachel Hedman teaches educators and others how to use story in the college classroom.
Maggie Foster blogs about the Benefits of Storytelling Therapy.
John Kotre author of eight books about lives, memories, and legacies, all of which take a narrative approach, is collecting stories of personal cosmologies, as well as stories of journeys get from one understanding of the cosmos to another at his Web site.
David Drake, PhD, offers the Center for Narrative Coaching. I saw his excellent presentation at last year’s Golden Fleece conference.

My friend and fellow Central Floridian Rick Stone is at i.d.e.a.s. with the title of Story Analytics Master.

MovingPictures helps companies tell their story. Check out the cool video, The Essence of a Story, on the company’s site.

3 Comments

Brother Wolf on February 9, 2008 2:22 PM

I interviewed Steve Denning on the The knowledge-based organization and using stories to embody and transfer knowledge. He spoke about his work at the World Bank and his various books. I think your readers might be interested in listening to the hour long audio interview at…

http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/?p=79

Thanks for coming on the show!

Eric Wolf

Brother Wolf on February 9, 2008 2:22 PM

http://www.storytellingwithchildren.com/?p=79

Let me know what you think. Eric Wolf

Kat on February 9, 2008 7:51 PM

Thanks, Eric.

Consider the info shared, and I will post it more prominently next time I update Story Practitioners.