Category Archives: Storytelling and Change

For the fourth year, I am participating in Blog Action Day. This year’s topic is food. As a blogger about applied storytelling, my goal with Blog Action Day is to explore the ways food and story intersect. We can tell something of a visual story with food. Food is is … Continue reading →

Virtually every day, I see examples of storytelling in service of social change. So many examples, in fact, that it takes two postings to cover just the recent ones. Here are some that have caught me eye in recent months: Brooke Dean and Levi Felix, who document their project at … Continue reading →

I have to admit, at this time of heated debate over religious freedom, that my knowledge of Islam is virtually nonexistent. Although I unconditionally support religious freedom, I admit to feeling slightly uneasy about Muslims. Knowledge is, of course, the way to eradicate uneasiness and fear. In a highly thoughtful … Continue reading →

I have heard the term “net neutrality” for years, but I can’t say I really paid attention to it or even understood it. But a guest posting by John S. Johnson on the site Hope for Film not only explained the term but offered up storytelling — and a free, … Continue reading →

I always especially appreciate content about storytelling related to employment. While my personal crusade is about storytelling in the job search, I’m also interested in the flip side — how employers use stories to entice, retain, and engage employees. Employee engagement is a major hot-button topic in HR, and some … Continue reading →

I’ve come across (somewhat) recently four ways storytelling is being used in healthcare. Here are some perspectives on those approaches: Patient stories are widely available on the Internet but are not always trustworthy: In a guest post on e-patients.net, Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, notes three kinds of patient stories that can … Continue reading →

Michael Margolis’s newsletter made me aware of this worthy project, “Be a Biographer” from The Blind Project: “Be a Biographer” invites designers, artists and creative-minded people to help tell the stories of victims and survivors of the commercial sex trade through their designs. “We want to connect your talents with … Continue reading →

I know Alan Grayson from near my former congressional district in Central Florida is a pariah to many, but I am citing this powerful, very short speech because it starts with a story — about his grandfather searching for stuff in the dump that he could sell to support his … Continue reading →

Storytelling is a hot topic in fund-raising and philanthropy. Andy Goodman is arguably the leading evangelist for storytelling in fund-raising; the folks at NTEN (membership organization of nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes) regularly hold storytelling webinars; and my friend Thaler Pekar consults with nonprofits about … Continue reading →

In celebration of today’s International Day for Sharing Life Stories, here’s a little piece of my story: Martha Beck recently told me everything I did wrong with my vision board in 2008. So what’s a vision board, who’s Martha Beck, and what does any of this have to do with … Continue reading →