Storytelling for Facilitators: Mining Meaning

Facilitating Storytelling for Creativity, Connection, and Meaning Making
For Facilitators, Trainers, Educators, Team or Community Leaders
Enliven and enrich your facilitation with Applied Storytelling. Move your participants out of distraction and resistance into aliveness and inspired engagement with storytelling! 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 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
  • deepening 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
  • generating fun and aliveness
You will leave with several creative, engaging, easily applicable exercises you can use and adapt for the groups you facilitate - on or offline - to meet your own and your group's goals and objectives.
Details
When: Wednesday, August 14, 2024; 12:00-2:00pm EDT Bonus: There is also an optional 30-minute post-workshop Q&A time 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. Questions? Email or call Michelle James at 434-995-5077.
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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. She recently published a book, Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator's Guide to Cultivating Creativity, which has a section devoted to Applied Storytelling.