A Running List of Events for Those Interested in Narrative and Storytelling

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the multi-disciplinary Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday 27 November, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt.

Tim Sheppard, local storytelling group member, will be introducing the subject before we get down to the serious k-cafe business as usual.

If you have any specific interests, please let us know. Tim got some feedback in the pub after our last gathering, but if you feel the urge to share some more with him, please add your thoughts to the wiki page.

As usual, please come along and enjoy while meeting and deepening your understanding of this topic, and book yourself in using the event booking page below:

Event booking and venue information link

Tim Sheppard website link

Storytelling wiki page for you to add any requests

Bristol Gurteen Knowledge Cafe mailing list link

Event page on Gurteen website

[Note: Deadline for paper submission to this June 2009 conference is Dec. 1, and the announcement is included here because in-depth case studies or story narratives are among the types of paper sought.]

The 2009 Global Forum will bring together leading executives, designers, management scholars, civil society leaders, government policy makers, and visionary students to identify and leverage new solutions with the potential to change 21st-century society for the better. The format and content will encircle the globe and include both face-to-face and virtual venues. The Forum is designed to inspire conferees to push the boundaries of what is known and to accept Toynbee’s challenge “to dare in scholarship.”

We invite papers, essays, workshop proposals from professors, students, executives, managers and leaders in the field of practice. A peer-review process will select submissions for presentation at the Forum, with outstanding papers considered for a state-of-the-art book as well as for a special journal issue. Innovative workshops on the strategic aspects of sustainable value creation, including leadership approaches and management methods for advancing business as an agent of world benefit, are also invited. Especially welcome are real-life profiles of CEOs, managers, companies, and public-private partnerships that have dared to view social and global challenges not as burdens but as compelling business opportunities, new sources of innovation, and the basis for long-term fiscal success.

Specifically, we invite papers that fall under one of the following 3 categories:

1. Conceptual, empirical, and theoretical papers
2. Workshops focused on application and the practical “how-to’s”
3. In-depth case studies or story narratives

Download more about the call for papers.

Once Upon a Legal Time, Chapter Two: Applied Storytelling in Law - Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, July 22-24, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 8, 2008.
Call for Proposals for the second biennial international Applied Storytelling Conference. The deadline is December 8, 2008. Building on the success of the first conference, held in London in 2007, this conference seeks to foster collaboration and dialogue about the skill of storytelling in law and about teaching storytelling and other skills to law students and practitioners. This conference will bring together academics, judges, and practitioners to explore the role of narrative in legal practice and curricular strategies that will prepare students to use story and narrative as they enter the practice of law. More information, click here.

A one-day workshop, led by Australia’s leading experts in story listening, teaches you to gather and make sense of stories so as to see revealing patterns and use them to gain traction on solving messy organisational problems or reaching complex goals.
Also: Storytelling for Business Leaders
Telling business stories is not about concocting events and delivering your tale to an enraptured audience. Rather, it relies on people retelling their own experiences in an authentic and empathetic way. The workshop reveals Anecdote’s three-step process to guide you.
Dates and locations:
To come
Download brochure here. Download a case study of results here.

From Steve Denning: International Story Weekend in Washington, DC, on April 16-18, 2009.
Theme: “The role of story and storytelling in generating high-performance teams, vibrant communities and organizations that are highly energized at the grass-roots level.”

Thursday evening will focus on the basics of organizational storytelling.
The theme of Friday and Saturday will be “the role of story and storytelling in generating high-performance teams, vibrant communities and organizations that are highly energized at the grass-roots level.”
For the weekend, an exciting lineup of speakers is almost in place including Tom Stewart, Peter Guber, Susan O’Halloran, Rick Stone, Loren Niemi, John Sadowsky, Noa Baum, Svend-Erik Engh, Seth Kahan, Madelyn Blair and Steve Denning.

Tom Stewart is the former editor of Havard Business Review.

Peter Guber as been the top executive at several multinational entertainment companies, including Sony Pictures, PolyGram, and Columbia Pictures, and has produced such movies as Rain Man, Batman, and The Color Purple. He is currently the chair and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group in Los Angeles, the host of the weekly film-industry talk show “Shootout” on AMC, and a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.

And next year’s Smithsonian event will have a wholly new format — briefer, more intense presentations, no PowerPoint, lunchtime sessions, and more interaction with the speakers. So reserve the dates April 16-18, 2009 in your calendar and get ready for a storytelling treat! Contact steve@stevedenning.com