Applied Storytelling for Facilitators: Mining Meaning

Facilitating Storytelling for Creativity, Connection, and Meaning Making
For Professional Facilitators, Trainers, Educators, Team or Community Leaders
Enliven and enrich your facilitation with Applied Storytelling. Move your participants out of Death-by-Zoom distraction into Aliveness-with-Storytelling inspired engagement! Stories bridge connection and understanding; bring our ideas, interactions, and goals to life; and transform data into discovery. In this dynamic, highly interactive workshop we will explore and experience a variety of Applied Storytelling techniques, frameworks, and prompts (from various domains) for:
  • mining meaning toward your objectives
  • extracting participant's values - and their value
  • enhancing human connection and team building
  • deepending understanding
  • generating and connecting more creative ideas
  • amplifying the gifts of who is in the room
  • listening and engaging with presence
  • turning dry data into a juicy journey of discovery
  • fun and aliveness
  • and more
You will leave with several creative, engaging, easily applicable exercises you can use and adapt for the groups you facilitate to meet your own and your group's goals and objectives.
Details
When: Next date TBA Bonus: There is also an optional 30-minute post-workshop Q&A time (4:30-5:00pm) to explore how to adapt any of the activites to a particular group you are facilitating. Where: Zoom. You will get a link upon registration. Investment: $60. Due to size limitations, there are no refunds after registration. Requirements: This group will be small – limited in size for maximum participation, presence, and sharing. It requires being visible the entire time – using a lap top or desk top so all participants can see each other throughout. Questions? Email or call Michelle James at 434-995-5077.
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Note: This is a smaller one-session workshop that will eventually become part of a larger multi-session offering in our Creative Facilitation Series. Because this is the beta test, anyone who takes this workshop will also be able to apply this registration fee toward the registration of the larger program.
Workshop Facilitator Michelle James has been working with Applied Storytelling and Story-based Applied Improvisation for over 2 decades with thousands of people – using hundreds of techniques – in corporations, non-profits, government agencies, public events, special interest and community groups. Her personal passion goes beyond sharing/facilitiating the techniques to helping participants adapt them, create with them, and make them their own in their unique way.