Good storytelling is essential for life and for making people lean in and listen.

1. February 10, 2015
Why Storytelling Matters

2. Presenters
✤ Kara Andrade @newmaya
✤ Monica Brown
✤ Leah Lavern Jones
✤ Shayla Racquel

3. The Plan
Welcoming & Intro
What is a story and why stories matter
Group Work
Fireside Story Sharing
Closing

4. Throughout history, storytelling has been
used to share knowledge, wisdom and values.

5. All our lives we are telling stories
✤ To get a job, a scholarship, a visa, to create.
✤ About the experiences in your life.
✤ About your idea for your business.
✤ About political thoughts.
✤ About you witness crimes.
✤ About parking tickets.
✤ To create a more just and democratic
society where everyone feels entitled to
share and have their stories heard.

6. Whatever you do: Make People Lean In
When we’re listening to a good story people lean in to listen.

7. Digital storytelling is the
modern version of the
ancient art of storytelling

9. But SomeThings Never Change

11. Shakespeare’s Story Arcs....

12. And yet other story arcs

13. GroupWork: Finding the Story
✤ Divide into five groups.
✤ Each group gets an image.
✤ Within your group tell the story of that
image using the narrative arc.
✤ Assign a storyteller.
✤ Each group shares their story in 30
seconds to the large group.

14. #visualstoryts

15. Fireside Share