Workshops
We deliver four workshops that teach techniques for using story to create change.
Contact us for more details.
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Change Through Story: Practical Applications (download the outline).
You know intuitively that story offers a powerful and natural way to engage people in change. But do you know why it works? Can you plan a strategy for social or organizational change that intentionally taps the deep and lasting power of story to help you meet your goals?
In this participatory workshop, you’ll:
• Develop an applied understanding of story theory.
• Deconstruct story structure to discover how stories work for change.
• Learn to create stories designed specifically to inform and engage.
• Develop strategies to use story to create change in your program.
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Story-Sharing: Facilitation Techniques
We all have stories to tell and wisdom to share. But current storytelling trends focus on helping leaders tell their own stories, creating a top-down story culture that can crush change.
This workshop focuses on teaching facilitation skills for participatory events that invite and encourage participants to share their stories. We emphasize the need to create a safe space, discuss techniques for leading groups through story analyses, present tips for careful story listening, and explore options for recording and sharing stories after an event.
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Digital Story Production: Technology as a Tool
With the explosion of cheap, accessible digital production technologies, everyone and his dog is publishing and podcasting. But research by experts in audience engagement (including Disney) shows that it's content - not whiz bang technology - that gets and holds people's attention.
This workshop explores strengths and weaknesses of popular technologies for producing stories to create change. In particular, we look at the importance of usability for making or breaking a technology-based campaign. We also review the role of story structure in generating engagement and learning (covered in-depth in the Change Through Story workshop).
Finally, we discuss strategies for inviting your audience to share their digital story materials in your change initiatives.
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Designing for Engagement: Strategies & Process
Engagement is an essential element of any change strategy. Yet, few practical resources exist to help you design activities and materials explicitly to engage your audience in your change initiatives.
This workshop tackles this tough topic as an Appreciative Inquiry by building on the experience of the participants as change agents. Over the course of the session, participants:
• Discover what engagement means to them, within the context of their work.
• Explore recent research into engagement design.
• Envision what engagement would look like within their change process.
• Describe how enhanceD audience engagement would affect change outcomes, and;
• Design and try out practical techniques for engagement that support their change goals.
At the end of the session, participants take away tips, tools and a deeper understanding of how they can put engagement design to work to achieve their change goals.
We deliver four workshops that teach techniques for using story to create change.
Contact us for more details.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Change Through Story: Practical Applications (download the outline).
You know intuitively that story offers a powerful and natural way to engage people in change. But do you know why it works? Can you plan a strategy for social or organizational change that intentionally taps the deep and lasting power of story to help you meet your goals?
In this participatory workshop, you’ll:
• Develop an applied understanding of story theory.
• Deconstruct story structure to discover how stories work for change.
• Learn to create stories designed specifically to inform and engage.
• Develop strategies to use story to create change in your program.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Story-Sharing: Facilitation Techniques
We all have stories to tell and wisdom to share. But current storytelling trends focus on helping leaders tell their own stories, creating a top-down story culture that can crush change.
This workshop focuses on teaching facilitation skills for participatory events that invite and encourage participants to share their stories. We emphasize the need to create a safe space, discuss techniques for leading groups through story analyses, present tips for careful story listening, and explore options for recording and sharing stories after an event.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Digital Story Production: Technology as a Tool
With the explosion of cheap, accessible digital production technologies, everyone and his dog is publishing and podcasting. But research by experts in audience engagement (including Disney) shows that it's content - not whiz bang technology - that gets and holds people's attention.
This workshop explores strengths and weaknesses of popular technologies for producing stories to create change. In particular, we look at the importance of usability for making or breaking a technology-based campaign. We also review the role of story structure in generating engagement and learning (covered in-depth in the Change Through Story workshop).
Finally, we discuss strategies for inviting your audience to share their digital story materials in your change initiatives.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Designing for Engagement: Strategies & Process
Engagement is an essential element of any change strategy. Yet, few practical resources exist to help you design activities and materials explicitly to engage your audience in your change initiatives.
This workshop tackles this tough topic as an Appreciative Inquiry by building on the experience of the participants as change agents. Over the course of the session, participants:
• Discover what engagement means to them, within the context of their work.
• Explore recent research into engagement design.
• Envision what engagement would look like within their change process.
• Describe how enhanceD audience engagement would affect change outcomes, and;
• Design and try out practical techniques for engagement that support their change goals.
At the end of the session, participants take away tips, tools and a deeper understanding of how they can put engagement design to work to achieve their change goals.
