Talk:Storytelling
How to use storytelling effectively in every area of your life ?
If you practice regularly, you will learn more in seven days than you will spending 7 years reading books.
The meat, not the fat[edit source]
Storytelling with a new symbolic alphabet because an image is worth many words ? Yes, this Wikiversity page is about incorporating stories in different areas of life. You will be shown several techniques on how to best use storytelling, on where to use it and of course also when and when not. To start out however, you need to know why stories might be of any use to you at all and what kind of things they will improve - and which they don't.
This learning experience is not especially about writing fairy tales neither is it exclusively about how to best tell stories out loud, although both will be part of it. It will be about storytelling in general, applied to many, many areas. If you're only interested in learning about for example it's use in business, you can skip those areas that are of no interest to you. Thanks to the different Learning Groups, you can learn what you decide to learn, and nothing more.
The only necessary skills you will be needing during this learning experience are reading, a little bit of writing, lots of common sense and - most importantly - the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes, i.e. empathy. You don't need any formal writing or literary education or experience.
Goals[edit source]
- to get introduced to and develop a firm understanding of the technique of storytelling and be able to explain it to others,
- to know when storytelling can be used and to be able to apply it to new areas,
- to get convinced of its power and usefulness and to be able to convince someone else to learn it,
- to be able to pass the isogram or ecoterms at the end of each lesson.
Learning Materials[edit source]
How will you go learning about all of this? Primarily by writing stories yourself, that is. "Write, don't just listen!", is how you will learn. Don't worry however about spending an eternity on writing stories. You won't be writing books in this course, only short stories or layouts for stories.
Too late, i will sum it up this friday PM--Copyleft 23:39, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Sources[edit source]
Good storytellers impact others with a consistent example and results. Their vision is humble and flexible, often detailled in a simple sentence.
- Wikipedia article: Storytelling
- Wikipedia article: Attraction
- Wikipedia article: Mind maps
- Share experiences of where you have noticed the power of storytelling, using your body, voice and smile.
training for social gym[edit source]
- to become familiar with storytelling, you have to practice it constantly like a game.
- to imagine you are on camera at all times and formulate your ideas oraly.
- to master the pivot often called "the rule of three" (simplexe).
- to process action with images using your body langage. Like a gym, you need to train your social muscles with exercices to breath, smile, joke and relax.
shouldn't we use 3 key words IAM, ONE and HEIS ? --Copyleft 08:35, 28 March 2009 (UTC)