What makes a story so unforgettable that it stays with you for most of a lifetime? I asked myself that question during a recent quest to find a story I never forgot from childhood. I wrote about the story four years ago while talking about the early influence of Reader’s … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Create a Video Story of The Moment You Knew …
Huffington Post has launched a new project called “The Moment I Knew,” a user-submitted video series in which readers tell the stories of life-changing moments they have experienced. Each section of HuffPost has chosen a different theme — whether it was the moment you knew you were in love, the … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: Mary Daniels Brown: People Choose Their Life Story from the Plot Lines That Their Culture Makes Available to Them
See a photo of Mary, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Q&A with Mary Daniels Brown, Question 5: Q: What has been your favorite or most meaningful project or initiative relating to life stories/narrative identity theory and why? A: I loved working … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: Mary Daniels Brown: Daniel Taylor’s Tell Me a Story = Life-Changing
See a photo of Mary, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with Mary Daniels Brown, Question 4: Q: What people or entities have been most influential to you in your story work and why? A: Daniel Taylor’s book, Tell Me a Story: The … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: Mary Daniels Brown: When Cultural Norms Break Down, We Look for New Stories to Help Guide Us Through Change
See a photo of Mary, her bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2. Q&A with Mary Daniels Brown, Question 3: Q: Interest in life stories and memoirs seems to be enormous at the moment. Why do you think that is? What makes people hunger to tell their own … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: Mary Daniels Brown: Matching the Narratives We Tell about Ourselves to Our Perception of the Social Context
See a photo of Mary, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Mary Daniels Brown, Question 2: Q: To what extent do you believe people construct their narrative identities differently in the digital world — for example on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and blogs — from the way … Continue reading
Q and A with a Story Guru: Mary Daniels Brown: Perspective has Both a Literal and a Metaphorical Aspect
Mary Daniels Brown is another practitioner I’ve run across as part of my Scoop.it curation of organizational storytelling. I am most intrigued by her work on narrative and perspective, as illustrated by these words from one of her blogs: “Each individual’s point of view is unique, and point of view … Continue reading
Sympathy vs. Empathy and Shaping Your Career Brand with Your Story
Dana Leavy presents an interesting perspective on career storytelling in What’s Your Story, Morning Glory? Building the Story Behind Your Personal Brand. She suggests both knowing the bigger narrative behind your brand, as well as the smaller stories that inspire it. Here, Leavy connects empathy vs. sympathy to telling those … Continue reading