"Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill. It allows the listener to take an idea and shape it into something that is relatable on a personal level. In The Art of Storytelling: Telling Truths Through Telling Stories, Amy E. Spaulding enables the reader to learn how to develop this skill, while als
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o discovering the tradition of storytelling. Spaulding covers a wide array of important storytelling elements, from advice on choosing, learning, and presenting the stories to discussions on the importance of storytelling through human history and its continued significance today. This book includes an annotated list of stories, as well as a bibliography of collections and a brief list of recommendations for online sources." (Publisher description)
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"Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity-they live in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence or trauma that they are comm
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itted to conquering. For some, the disclosure of their own stories of marginalization has become a tool for advocacy, for telling a larger truth; for others, self-disclosure is a more personal action, intended to assist isolated others in developing trust and connection. Linde Zingaro, a lifelong social service worker and activist, interviewed several colleagues who have chosen to speak out in this way, talking with them about their ethics and intentions, and collaborating to identify some of the risks of negative personal and professional consequences for the practitioner. She uses their voices-and her own-to illustrate some of the ways that these people have learned to safely and effectively use the transformative potential of storytelling as significant social action." (Publisher description)
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"This collection of seventeen contributions provides a small but significant window into some of the themes that, in our view, will define research on narrative in the coming years. Some of these themes have already started taking center stage— for example, the diversification of methodological to
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ols, concepts, and contexts in the study of identities in narratives. Others are relatively new, such as the investigation of how mediated communication has changed storytelling practices and our conception of narrative. Yet other questions were already central to narrative research but have taken new directions—for instance, the study of how narratives participate in the construction of the moral order, and the different roles that truth and deception play in varying social practices. What emerges from the chapters in this book is a common emphasis on contexts and practices, a close attention to differences rather than an assumption of homogeneity. These elements confirm a welcome opening up of the field to the realities of postmodern societies." (Introduction, page 5-6)
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"Harnessing the Power of Videos is a training toolkit for community-based organizations on how they and the adolescent girls they serve can use visual media and technology to tell their stories and those of their communities; to be heard; and, in the process, to be empowered through increased skills
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and self-confidence. This manual was designed in consultation with several organizations focused on promoting gender equality and improving the lives of adolescent girls and young women." (Introduction)
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"Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape. It covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling y
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outh movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary. It pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like. And it explores the boundaries of digital storytelling from China and Brazil to Western Europe and Australia." (Publisher description)
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"This book reveals the true impact of stories on our lives and how stories can create feelings of hope, take away psychological distress and even stimulate the immune system. It contains over 90 short stories, and allows readers to understand the patterns storytellers use to captivate attention and
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how truths are often encapsulated in stories." (Publisher description)
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"Beginning with wonderful tips and advice about the art and presentation of storytelling, this is a complete resource about how to build a storytelling career. Storytellers come to their careers centered on the stories they love and soon realize that in order to make a living at what they love, they
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must build a business. This in-depth book tells them just how and what to do in every detail, from choosing a sound system to building a website to using podcasts and setting up an office. Resource lists and tried and true ideas abound as the author shares her marketing and business success story throughout. Each chapter is a story in itself, beginning and ending with different traditional folktale openings and closings. There is even a chapter on how to plan for retirement." (Publisher description)
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"Conflicts are more effectively managed if people understand the layers meaning in their conflicts and collaborate based on those meanings. In this book, author Peter M. Kellett analyzes and interprets real-life conflict stories as a way to create opportunities for more productive ways to navigate a
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nd resolve conflict." (Publisher description)
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"Eine Geschichte zu erzählen ist grundsätzlich etwas Einfaches, das alle kennen und mit dem sich starke Gefühle hervorrufen und Erkenntnisse herbeiführen lassen. Komplizierter ist die Arbeit mit Geschichten im Rahmen der Tätigkeit von Organisationen, wenn damit zu Reflektionen angeregt, Gemeins
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chaften gebildet, praktisches Wissen vermittelt oder aus Erfahrungen gelernt werden soll. Dieses Handbuch soll der DEZA und ihren Mitarbeitenden und Partnern Denkanstöße und praktische Tipps liefern. Das vorliegende Material soll dazu beitragen, dass Sie die Fähigkeiten und das Vertrauen entwickeln, die zum Geschichtenerzählen und zur Moderation beim Geschichtenerzählen wichtig sind. Zudem hilft es möglicherweise bei der Entwicklung komplexerer Methoden und Programme im Bereich von Wissensaustausch, Organisationsentwicklung und Kommunikation. Konkret enthält das Handbuch folgende Elemente: Tipps, Strukturvorlagen und Instrumente, die Ihnen helfen, sich Erfahrungen in Erinnerung zu rufen, diese mit andern zu teilen und sie zu nutzen; Überlegungen zu den praktischen und emotionalen Aspekten des Geschichtenerzählens; Überlegungen zu den Gefahren einer Institutionalisierung dieser Ansätze; Einblicke in die Erfahrungen der DEZA bei der Arbeit mit Geschichten. Storytelling eignet sich nicht für jede Situation. Die Methoden sollten durch erfahrene Personen sorgfältig ausgewählt und auf Arbeitskontext und -ziele abgestimmt werden. Gewisse Methoden wie der konsequente Einbezug des Geschichtenerzählens in die Kernabläufe einer Organisation, zum Beispiel in Evaluationen, erfordern Geduld und eine langfristige Unterstützung durch das Management. Nur so kann der geeignete Ansatz mittels Trial-and-Error-Verfahren gefunden werden. Das Handbuch soll in erster Linie Möglichkeiten eröffnen und nicht definieren. Es soll Sie dazu motivieren, Ihr eigenes Repertoire zu entwickeln." (Einleitung, Seite 6)
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"The act of telling a story is a deceptively simple and familiar process, a way to evoke powerful emotions and insights. By contrast, working with stories in organisational settings – to aid reflection, build communities, transfer practical lear-ning or capitalize experiences – is more complicat
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ed. This Guide was designed to be both thought provoking and of some practical use to SDC and its collaborators and partners. The materials contained here should help you develop competence and confidence as tellers or facilitators of telling and may also support the development of more complex methodologies and programmes involving knowledge sharing, change and communication. In it you will find: tips, templates and tools to help you find, share and capitalize experience; reflections on the practical and the emotional aspects of story telling; consideration of the challenges and risks in institutionalising these approaches; illustrations from SDC’s experience so far of putting stories to work." (Introduction, page 6)
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"This book is an invitation—an invitation to discover the potential of a simple video camera and the power it holds to spark social change. Every day, all around the world, activists draw upon video in creative, strategic ways and use the results to ensure that silent voices are heard and importan
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t reforms are made. In this book we will show you how they do this, and how you can do it too [...] These chapters will walk you through the process of “video advocacy.” By this phrase we mean the use of video as an essential tool in social justice activism—one that can be deployed as strategically and effectively as more traditional forms of “advocacy” referring to the range of ways to exert pressure for a defi ned goal of change, including persuasion, relationship-building, lobbying, organizing, and mobilizing. We will draw on the inspiring real-life experiences of social justice video advocates worldwide—groups that have worked with the human rights organization WITNESS where I work, and a range of other wellknown and lesser-known fi gures in the activist universe. Throughout you’ll fi nd an emphasis on the emotional and empathetic aspect of video, on its humanizing ability to communicate across boundaries. We also stress the need for collaboration within organizations and among outside allies to more successfully facilitate the production and use of video." (Introduction, page xii-xiii)
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"This book argues that indigenous modes of communication - for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio - are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of co
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mmunication technology such as the internet and digitised information, endogenous modes of communication are paramount to the processes of human development in Africa." (Publisher description)
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"As a concept, storytelling has won a decisive foothold in the debate on how brands of the future will be shaped. Yet, there is still a conspicuous lack of critical insight as to how and why storytelling can make a difference. For most companies, storytelling remains an abstract concept, at best res
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erved for PR and advertising executives, at worst, wishy-washy claptrap with no real value: What's the point of telling stories anyway? What makes a good story? And how do you go about telling it so that it supports the company brand? As a concept, storytelling has won a decisive foothold in the debate on how brands of the future will be shaped. Concrete answers are few and far between, and the debate for now is largely academic. The aim of this book is to make storytelling tangible. In the following chapters, we hope to turn abstract notions of storytelling into practical tools by giving real-life examples of how storytelling can be used as an effective branding tool. This book is written for those of you who are fed up with lofty talk, and for those of you who are interested in using storytelling as a branding tool within your company." (Page 15)
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"This book tells how four busy executives, each coming from a different background, each with a very different perspective, were surprised to find themselves converge on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the 21st century. It ref
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lects a conversation that took place under the auspices of The Smithsonian Associates in April 2001 and the effects that this conversation has stimulated since then." (Preface)
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"This book contains 50 stories, all of which have been specifically chosen to help you deal with the difficult and complex process of change. Some of the stories have been lent by other authors, some are my own creation, some were developed by participants during storytelling workshops and some have
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been re-told or adapted to address a particular aspect of change. As with my previous books, there is a ‘moral’ attached to the bottom of each story. In some situations you may feel it appropriate to disclose the suggested moral to your listener(s), but in others it may be more appropriate to allow them to reflect and formulate their own understanding. There is a danger of being over-prescriptive when sharing the meanings of stories; they always contain more than one meaning, as I have found on many occasions – and there’s usually at least one that you never thought of! There is also guidance in this book on how you might use the stories to promote reflection and meaningful discussion." (Publisher description)
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"[This book] is meant to be a resource for writers and designers and those who must work with us and who may want to talk intelligently with us at some point. This is not a book of rules that, if slavishly followed, will guarantee success. You’ll see that just about every time I try to lay down so
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me canonical law to follow, I immediately think of exceptions. Don’t be afraid to break any rules as you write, as long as you know exactly what they mean, and why they’re rules to begin with. Pablo Picasso knew this, as you’ll soon see. It is one of the continuing themes running through this book. Think of it as a book of ideas and of choices. With any luck, it will help you to generate ideas of your own. And you will feel more comfortable when choices present themselves as you write. Knowing which choices to make is not teachable. It’s part of that creative instinct we call talent whose secret voice guides us in our decisions every time we sit down at the keyboard. And anyway, they will be different for different people. Despite what writing gurus say, all stories are not identical. They are shaped by all those unique facets of the human beings who write them." (Introduction)
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