Life is not about the big stuff. Everything that is important is quite small. We tend to think of a person’s life as a long and complex story. A biography shouldn’t be a short easy read right? It should be a complex narrative that examines a person’s loves, struggles, accomplishments and failures. What if I…
Where do your most meaningful stories come from? From your lived experience. They come from your childhood, your friends, travels or working life. How do you identify the stories that move you? You don’t forget them. You see or hear something and it reminds you of that event or time in your life. Take note…
How do you learn about someone? Listen to their story. In July this year I ran a workshop with Megan Spencer, Deep Storytelling : Creating A Culture of Connection. We assisted an amazing group of people's ability to refine their own story and create a community around their message. The focus of this project was…
I don’t know about you, but there seems to be a lot of endings and beginnings going on. Why do we tend to do similar things at about the same time? Is it the collective consciousness? I would say it is the power of story. We tend to make decisions within similar time frames because…
One word is all you need to make a connection. One word can make people sit up, take notice and introduce themselves. We don’t need a lot of words to describe ourselves. We need one perfect word. What is your word? Mine is ‘story’. Discovering your word is not a simple task. It is an…
Telling the right stories to the right people can lead to connection.
What’s next? And then what happened? Two magical phrases every storyteller loves to hear. Your audience is on a journey with you until the end. How do you know if your story is good? Our collective experience of sharing life on this planet means if you think your story is good, most other people will…
Goal + Great Tools = Results!Focus is everything!Life can get overwhelming. How do we decide what is important at any one moment.Keep your business goals and social media goals aligned. This can be achieved with focus.We can’t be on every social media platform! Nor should we be. We have to decide where our energy is…
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.” - Bill Nye You are valuable. You have knowledge that other people do not. We all know something that someone else doesn’t. What do you want to share? This is the essence of blogging. In today’s world we are all educators. We are out there describing…
Next week at Laneway Learning I will be leading a class using Twitter to explore the concept of interactive storytelling. The class is Tuesday the 10th of June 2014 at 8 pm. It will be possible to join the live interactions by following #LLStory. I am very excited to see how the story unfolds and…
Storytelling Built For Innovation 