Today is Job Action Day, and the Quintessential Careers family of sites and blogs has united to encourage readers to take at least one proactive step to shore up their jobs or careers in the face of the current economic crisis. A Storied Career today brings you the story of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Change
Change the World: Rate Rakontu, A Community Story Tool, by Nov. 1
My virtual friend, Cynthia Kurtz (about whom I’ve blogged here and here and who will be the subject of a Q&A in December), is heading a team that prepared a grant application directed at the Knight News Challenge for a project to develop open-source software to support community storytelling. Says … Continue reading
Why Tell a Rape Story?
I was raped when I was college age on the streets of the city in which I first went to college. I have written about that experience a couple of times in the years since. Why tell such a personal story? In the case of Alice Sebold, author of the … Continue reading
Sustainability Stories
OK, I admit that, although I care about the environment, it’s not one of my pet issues. As with any issue, however, passions can be aroused and change effected about the environment and sustainability through storytelling. And storytelling, I’m passionate about, especially its ability to promulgate change. Thus, I greatly … Continue reading
Stories of Those Who Stuck Their Necks Out
The Giraffe Heroes Project has a huge collection of stories about “Giraffe Heroes–people we commend for sticking their necks out for the common good. Their stories inspire others to take on the public challenges they see–speaking out against corruption, building bridges across conflicts, taking a stand against injustice, being a … Continue reading
Blog Action Day: Stories of Poverty
Today, I’m participating in Blog Action Day, an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. This year’s issue, about which the day aims to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion, is poverty. One … Continue reading
If Dogs Could Tell Their Stories…
BAD RAP is the website/blog of Bay Area Dog Lovers Responsible About Pitbulls. Over the summer, one of the site’s bloggers wrote about an article in Bark magazine about Michael Vick’s pitbulls by Susan McCarthy. The blogger particularly cited a line in the article that reads, “Although dogs don’t tell … Continue reading
Real Women’s Stories of Success and Inspiration
The Forté Foundation is a consortium of major corporations and top business schools that has become a powerful change agent in educating and directing talented women toward leadership roles in business. Forte’s mission is to substantially increase the number of women business leaders by increasing the flow of women into … Continue reading
Storytelling to Warn Against Pandemic Complacency
Storytelling is a natural in heath and healing, as I’ve blogged about previously. Narrative medicine is also a growing field. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is trying to prevent the complacency that CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding calls “enemy number one when it comes to preparing for another influenza … Continue reading
More on Stories and Health
Here are two sites that offer slightly different takes on storytelling and health: Healing Story Alliance is a special interest group of the National Storytelling Network that “explore[s] and promote[s] the use of storytelling in healing. Our goal for this special interest group is to share our experience and our … Continue reading