STORI stands for STorytelling ORganization Institute, a provider of
workshops for consultants, their clients and researchers.
S T O R I I N S T I T U T E
TWO WORKSHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM in 2008
2008 STORY NOTICING WORKSHOP FOR RESEARCHERS – PLACE: Holiday Inn (Independence Mall) – Historic District in Philadelphia, PA. Conference cost: $110 for faculty, $75 for graduate students. Date: March 26th (Wed) Time: 9AM to 6PM (price includes breakfast and lunch). We invite scholars in the field of narrative and story to a workshop for Ph.D. students, faculty, and researchers. STORI Institute scholars, who have written books and journal articles on story noticing, living story, and differences among beginning, middle, end (BME) narratives and the more dynamic qualities of story complexity in living systems will present, provide you with qualitative research protocols, and examples. If asked, we will assist you in developing your research projects. You will develop networks with other scholars, getting input on your projects. You are encouraged to attend the Standing Conference for Management & Organization Inquiry* (sc’MOI) that runs from Thurs to Saturday (Mar 27 to 29th, 8Am to 6PM). Pricing for sc’MOI is an additional cost of $300 for faculty and $100 for Ph.D. students. Details on deadlines for registration and manuscript submission to proceedings.
STORY NOTICING WORKSHOP FOR CONSULTANTS AND THEIR CLIENTS – PLACE: Holiday Inn (Independence Mall) – Historic District in Philadelphia, PA.; Cost: $1,150 ($975 per person for groups of two or more from the same organization); Dates: March 30 and 31st (Sun & Mon, 9:30 AM to 6PM); In this highly interactive workshop consultants and their clients will collaborate with leading STORI scholars to take a deeper and broader look at story noticing in organizations. We will have workshop exercises and modules including:
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- Story Listening – How really listening to the stories of others reveals layers of knowledge that normally pass us by, and how to work with them using what we call storymaker methodologies
- Story Aliveness – How to notice stories that are living in human systems, yet taken-for-granted in story complexity.
- Story Action – How story action can become the engine of creative integral-strategy development and performance improvement for your organization to make it more polyphonic (many-voiced)
- Story Attunement – How the stories that matter are often spontaneous, abbreviated, be the least polished, yet can have the most transformational impact once restorying processes are attuned
- Story Ethics – How to attest to the organization’s story ethics and the story rights of its stakeholders (including the integral methods)
You will apply these story noticing ideas to your own organization and move you far beyond the customary approaches of using stories as just a stump speech or focus-group device. And you will have an opportunity to experience these story noticing concepts – drawn from research and practice, in our original workshop exercises, and work with us to apply them to your own setting.
During the consultants and their clients workshop participants will…
1. Work with consultants and their clients, in pre-workshop, in the weeks leading up to the event, to ascertain specific interests and needs in story noticing.
2. Identify current organizational challenges that will benefit from a story noticing approach during a pre-conference call with one of the STORI Institute consultants
3. Assess your story-based communication and story noticing competencies
4. Work with methods for noticing, gathering and eliciting stories in your organization
5. Practice analyzing stories noticed to better understand what people are experiencing in your organization
6. Develop a story action plan for your organization
7. Participate in a coaching session with STORI Institute consultants and their clients.
For more information on the next workshop and to reserve your place contact David Boje.
Phone: 575-532-1693 or SKYPE ‘davidboje’ – Let’s talk instead of email; storytelling is an oral way