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What’s Your Story? The Power of Storytelling. Today’s Agenda. Introductions Part One: What’s Storytelling The 4 Planks of Effective Storytelling Part Two: Review Story Checklist What’s Your Story? Group Exercise . Storytelling. W hat exactly is "storytelling"?
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Today’s Agenda Introductions Part One: • What’s Storytelling • The 4 Planks of Effective Storytelling Part Two: • Review Story Checklist • What’s Your Story? Group Exercise
Storytelling • What exactly is "storytelling"? • What are the elements of a good story? • How many of you routinely gather and use stories?
A Long and Strong Tradition • Griot. Raconteur. Bard. Jongleur. Spinner of yarns. Named by a thousand words, storytellers have shaped our societies and the way we think for centuries. • In certain Native American cultures, stories are so important that every question is answered by a story.
Stories Connect us to Others • Storytelling is a way to reach out, connect and share something with others. • Stories have to come from your heart before they will go to people’s heads. • Stories need to carry your key messages and inspire people to take action.
The 4 Planks of Effective Storytelling • You need a heroyour audience can both root for and relate to. • Your hero must face conflict and overcome challenges. • You need to use the right pictures and words to make your story compelling. • Forget about the facts and figures to avoid “Literal Sclerosis.” Too many facts will put your audience to sleep!!!
Message: There’s No Place Like Home • Dorothy Gale leaves home against her will, gets lost, finds many obstacles, overcomes every challenge and eventually achieves her goal of getting back home.
1. A Hero Your Audience Can Relate to • Your story needs a “hero” who is relatable and made more human and compelling through the effective use of pictures and words. • Love’s Story...
2. The Use of Conflict • You need a hero who has a goal and faces challenges reaching their goal – it's called “conflict.” • You need stories where the hero has to climb mountains and fight dragons to rescue the princess. • So when you tell stories, enliven them by saying what the hero is trying to achieve and what is standing in the way.
3. The Right Use of Pictures The Crisis of Childhood Hunger
The Right Use of Words: Friday Panic! • Hunger has an emotional impact on children. Feelings of anxiety and hostility toward others can result from chronic hunger. • Teachers have a name for the anxiety that surrounds weekendsand summer: “Friday panic!” • It’s the time, late in the day, when they see their students hoarding and hiding food for the weekends. • “They feel desperate because they’re afraid they’re not going to have enough to eat,” said Lorena Cabello, a former kindergarten teacher. “Imagine the fear of going all summer long without enough to eat.”
Beam Me Up, Scottie! The right picture and words help your audience visualize the setting and become immersed in the story. They become transportedto a new reality through the hero's eyes. Powerful stories take donors on journeys and they tend to carry that story around inside of them. It becomes part of who they are and cause the to take action.
Rewadia’s Story • A hero you can relate to – a story with compelling words and images.
What’s your story • Checklist for identifying a good story: • Is this a story I want to tell? • Does it have the right hero – is he/she relatable? • Does the story have a heartbeat? • Is the story transformative? • Does it transport us? • Does it sound like us? • Does it have the right mix of pictures and words? • Will it make the listener want to do something?
