After I published the first installment of my Q&A with David Willows, a reader e-mailed me to ask about this passage: In my current work as the director of external relations of a large international school, it is true that I often say that my role is all about telling … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Q&A with a Story Guru: David Willows: You Can Never Stand Outside the Story
See a photo of David, his bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Q&A with David Willows, Question 5: Q: What is your greatest challenge in the telling the story of International School of Brussels (pictured)? A: One of the biggest challenges that we … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: David Willows: Where is the Wisdom We Have Lost in Knowledge? Where is the Knowledge We Have Lost in Information?
See a photo of David, his bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with David Willows, Question 4: Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now?’ What is it about this moment in human history and culture that makes storytelling so resonant … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: David Willows: Stories of Family Life Connect with Others
See a photo of David, his bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2. Q&A with David Willows, Question 3: Q: How has your work with story evolved? A: I have written a lot about the power of storytelling in my career — as a priest in the Church … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: David Willows: Stories are Key to Making Sense of the Complexity of Human Existence
See a photo of David, his bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with David Willows, Question 2: Q: How did you initially become involved with story/ storytelling/narrative? What attracted you to this field? What do you love about it? A: Funnily enough, I wasn’t one of those kids … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: David Willows: Marketing Is About Telling the Story and Helping Audience Members Find Their Place in the Story
Although my next Q&A series doesn’t officially start till May, I’m delighted to whet my appetite and yours with this interview with David Willows, who uses storytelling in his job as director of external relations for The International School of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium. This Q&A will appear over the … Continue reading
The Ancient Tradition of the Story Gourd
Do you know about the ancient, culturally embedded tradition of the story gourd? The gourd with a story etched around the surface … with the carved grid on the back … with the hinged door that opens to reveal a picture related to the story? You’ve never heard of the … Continue reading
Twitter’s a Tool in the Space Between Story and Gaming
Ongoing chronicling of how folks are using social media, especially Twitter, for forms of storytelling … “Choose Your Own Adventure” has long seemed to me to fall somewhere between storytelling and gaming. Jonah Peretti is using Twitter for a “Choose Your Own Adventure” activity. As Mashable describes the activity … … Continue reading
Can an Image Scanner Tell a Story?
Well, I managed to miss World Storytelling Day yesterday, and I’m not going to make humanists any happier today by talking about storytelling by an inanimate object today. Of course, there really is a person (Damon Stea) behind the storytelling in this digital story, “Memoirs of a Scanner,” but the … Continue reading
Illustrations Enhance Business Storytelling Series
Kelsey Ruger has been running a series on business storytelling on his blog The Moleskin. It’s a particularly helpful series for newbies to business narrative/organizational storytelling, as veterans may find it a bit too basic. But what even longtime organizational-storytelling followers will enjoy are Ruger’s charming hand-drawn charts and pictures … Continue reading