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Friends of the Earth have created a very powerful short plea for the “men in suits” to act on what they already know to avert disaster due to climate change. Using a child as narrator and some clever visual storytelling, the video is a graphic summary of the problem and the need for urgency. I found [Continue reading Video conversations tap storytelling techniques] Greg Morris is another of the story practitioners whose work I follow. So it isn’t just because he posted an excerpt from Soaring on the wings of a story that I’m writing about him here. (Anyway, that post was on another of my blogs, Catching Courage.) The reason I want to make sure you visit Greg’s [Continue reading Writing a new story] Regular readers of Story Route and those of you who are Facebook friends will likely recognize A Storied Career. It’s Kathy Hansen’s “Blog to explore traditional and postmodern forms/uses of storytelling”. Even in the middle of a cross-country move, Kathy continues to post provocative and fascinating entries on a dizzyingly wide array of storytelling topics. So [Continue reading The storytelling labyrinth] Lisa's e-booklet is available on her Story Coach site Story practitioners of every stripe work with individuals and organizations to craft the narratives that will sell their services, attract clients, build trust, and impact a company’s culture or bottom line. For Story Coach Inc.‘s Lisa Bloom finding the compelling story is key to success. Subscribers [Continue reading Story Coach fixing mistakes with stories] Google is always thinking up some new way to keep people coming back to its search engine. Frankly, they’re pretty brilliant. One of Google’s latest brilliant ideas is Google Search Stories. You’ve probably seen the one about the American finding love in Paris. Now they’ve made it easy for anyone to create a search story. So I [Continue reading Memoir in seven searches] “There is no conclusion in science; it is a continual and recursive process of story testing.” ~ Paul Grobstein Eggs Benedict. Boiled eggs. Fried, scrambled, poached, coddled eggs. Huevos rancheros, omelettes, eggnog. Just listing them makes me drool. Yellow and white killers in a crusty shell? Or nature’s little health miracle? It’s all in the science, [Continue reading Science as story] Our Stories conference logo Without a doubt, the best organizational storytelling conference I’ve ever participated in was the Our Stories conference in 2007. Sponsored by Vancouver (Canada) Coastal Health, it drew an enthusiastic audience of 230 health professionals. The conference co-sponsors were AHIP, the Aboriginal Health Initiative Program, and the Sharon Martin Community Health Fund. AHIP’s [Continue reading Demonstrating Change through Storytelling] A few months into a new job as Food and Health Project Manager for Interior Health (the health authority that serves British Columbia’s southeast region), I was asked to lead a storytelling workshop at the Population Health conference. The invitation was not totally out of the blue. Storytelling had been part of my community development work [Continue reading Storytelling in health care] When it comes to evaluating a project, the people who dreamed it into being are the ones who know it most intimately. In the non-profit world, that can mean people with limited or no experience in measuring outcomes are asked to reduce their work to something that can be slotted into a form. That’s a [Continue reading Using stories to show change] During years of work in the field of community development, I’ve seen fantastic projects that popped with excitement. Even if their funders changed focus, the intrepid project leaders managed to tell the project’s story in a way that kept the dollars flowing in. Others dropped out of sight once initial funding ended. There are many reasons [Continue reading Pop or drop: telling your organization’s story] |
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