Nice description of storytellers at the School of Storytelling at Emerson College in the UK: A storyteller is more than just a teller of stories. Storytellers are entertainers, teachers and healers with a long spiritual tradition. Their creative work often focuses on strengthening the communities in which they live. Drawing … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Overheard Conversation Snippets as Story Prompts
Recently came across the site Overheard Everywhere, which seems to consist of bits of overheard conversations with funny headlines. Example of overheard snippet: Student at table: Yeah, so, I finally found out what was dead in my basement. It occurred to me that it would be fun to imagine these … Continue reading
A Storytelling Boost to the Writing Process
Mary Robinette Kowal recently described an interesting storytelling phenomenon that happened to her. She read one of her unfinished stories to a group of people she knew. She got to the place where the story ended (without ending) and the audience wanted to know … But what happens next?!?!” I … Continue reading
Introducing Redesign and Upgrade
Ta-da! A Storied Career has been redesigned and upgraded to Movable Type 4.1. It has been a long, hard, and not cheap road to get this done. Movable Type is not the easiest platform to work with, but for some reason I’ve felt compelled to stick with it. A Storied … Continue reading
How Storytelling Contributes to Learning
Dr. Rebecca Isbell is a proponent of storytelling for learning, especially for young children. On her Web site, she notes these learning advantages for children that stories offer: They provide a new way to learn how the world works. Exposes them to stories from other cultures and different people. Storytelling … Continue reading
Nuggets from a Mighty Mouth
Found some nice nuggets in the storytelling section of the blog (Mighty Casey Media Mighty Mouth Blog) of Casey Quinlan, who describes herself as a “20-year veteran of network news and sports, now a writer, speaker and storytelling guru helping companies and their customers get to ‘happily ever after’.” She … Continue reading
A Broader View of Organizational Stories
ChangingMinds.org has a nice section on Storytelling in Organizations, including what’s special about organizational storytelling, its purpose, storytelling channels, and a section on teaching tales. The site also lists a wider variety of organizational story types than I’ve seen before, including: Cautionary tales Genesis stories Leadership stories Stories of failure … Continue reading
A Return to Wholeness: Storytelling as a Healing Art
Bioneers has a radio series in which one 30-minute, well-produced, free episode features Rachel Remen, teacher and master storyteller, who packs several stories into her discussion about how the power of story can deepen lives and enrich work. From Remen’s Web site: Most health professionals do not take the time … Continue reading
The DVD of Your Life
Lifefilm_Intro from lifefilm on Vimeo. After I read an article in the Christian Science Monitor about a company that makes DVDs of people’s life stories, I wanted to find out more about the company, LifeFilm Productions. Not one’s whole life story — the sample films on the company’s site are … Continue reading
Anecdote Offers White Paper on Narrative and Organizational Change
Anecdote, the Australian consulting firm that specializes in organizational storytelling, is offering a new white paper entitled, Three journeys: A narrative approach to successful organisational change. Here’s an excerpt provided by Anecdote: This paper describes the approach we take with clients to successfully foster change in their organisations. It is … Continue reading