Once upon a time I was jealous of English speaking storytellers for having the word ‘storytelling’ to describe their art – a single word which is both a noun and a verb, concise with movement and flair, elegant. In Hebrew we had a combination of two words – ‘Sipur Sipurim’ – meaning telling stories or [...]
Eric James Wolf asked “If theater uses the word storytelling to sell really good theatrical performances… are you comfortable using the word theater to sell really good storytelling?” Let’s look at some of the answers he received. I’m grouping them by nature without directly quoting anyone: Definitions are not important/ definitions are not important – [...]
The connection between leadership and storytelling is presented in many places as the connection between a position & a required skill. My take on this issue is somewhat different and it focuses first of all on defining leadership and where it appears, under what circumstances and pre-conditions. What are leaders made of? This question has [...]
The most miserable storytelling misconception is thinking storytelling is another story-delivery channel. Look at this comment: Hi Limor, Storytelling as practiced as an art form by some does not encompass all possible kinds of storytelling. In fact all you have to do to be a storyteller is to tell or write stories The person who [...]
Surfing Sean Buvala’s blog I came across two new posts about what he calls the mythology of business storytelling. He’s breaking down some of the frequent statements flying around these days to demonstrate in a way, what’s really wrong about them. Yes, people are being told and being telling themselves quite a lot of misleading [...]
Back to the core model of storytelling, starting to examine its components. Remember this entire search was initiated in order to find possible common ground between various practices whose members state they are connected to storytelling one way or another. As usual, you are welcome to make any comment. Utterance is a spoken expression, something [...]
‘Grid’ is now in inverted commas since it’s obvious the final form cannot be 2D and most probably not 3D either. It’s only a matter of convenience to keep presenting them that way (creating illustration 4 was already quite a challenge for me; please forgive any imprecision). By now I have on the ‘grid’ the [...]
Continuing the search for a storytelling grid it is getting obvious that eventually it will not be a grid i.e. 2D net. It can’t be a 3D form either since elements of time and change are involved (any suggestions for a form?). In the meanwhile I’m looking at the inner threefold of storytelling – the [...]
This search is going to take several posts to complete and I hope it provokes a good conversation. The idea: to create a frame of reference for many story-work forms that represent truly good intentions and work, while helping everybody realize what part of storytelling they are actually referring to. I also intend to clear [...]
Storytelling is getting into the hands of demagogues tapping into individual’s dreams for success, power, riches and happiness. Here are two examples I’ve cropped off twitter today: ‘Power to the people’ attached to ‘how we will control’ with the following hashtags makes one think that [...]
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