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The Power of Storytelling by Nereyda Martinez
On September 10th, 2019, my husband forced me to get out of the house to attend a workshop. It was a workshop held by a nonprofit for its sponsors. My husband had become a Sponsor by providing photography and videography for this nonprofit, so we were invited. At that point in my life, I couldn’t…
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Mind Your Ps and Cs by Diana Dinshaw
School was a struggle for me. Science, history, literature, geography – you name the subject I struggled. The only subject I did well in was math. I loved theorems. They were logical and there was structure to it. So, when I signed up for fact-based storytelling, I was having flashbacks to history class in school…
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Gwion Tells
I had a dream last night about the Welsh cauldron goddess, Cerridwen, and her two sons. It reminded me of this poem I wrote several years ago about the son who became Taliesin, the greatest of the Welsh bards. Gwion Tells Cerridwen had a daughter A beauty from the start But her son was so…
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It’s the Storytellers Who Will Save the World By Karen Burns
“Everyone wants to know that their life has meaning.” Andrew Stanton Immediately after the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11, 2001, the horror of the images and the stories that emerged were either devastating or inspiring. There wasn’t time to mourn immediately, there was too much need. The world rushed to offer help…
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Step Out On A Cliff by Louis Soto
Stories for millennia have imparted something special to their listeners. Some call this wisdom, some call it history, while others call it archetypes. Archetypes are small pieces of information that our brain absorbs through the use of symbols. This is done by listening to a story and visually painting images that create scenarios that inform…
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Rules of Thumb Aren’t Rules by Matthew Knotts
When I worked in corporate learning, the rule of thumb was that each 23 minute module took an average of 67 hours to develop (td.org) when you factor in research, interview, development, editing, reviews and production. A Facebook livestream group revealed that each 30 to 45 minute episode takes a month to prepare (brianhonigman.com). So…
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Telling Stories Ethically by Liz Warren
How do you go about finding a story to craft and tell that is both right for you as a storyteller and ethical for you as a person in this time and place? Selecting the story is the first and most important step in telling a story. The bottom line is this: Choose stories that you…
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How to Create a Story by Liz Warren
Stories are things we make. Most of us don’t have stories. We have memories and experiences that we shape into stories. It’s similar to how home-made baked goods don’t just spontaneously appear on our kitchen counters. We have to assemble the ingredients, follow a recipe, and bake them ourselves. Same with stories. The questions below…
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Liz Weir visits Study Abroad Ireland!
The participants in Study Abroad Ireland had the pleasure and privilege of hearing Liz Weir in class on Monday, June 27th. Liz stayed with us for the whole morning, and during that time she told us 18 stories, provided us with her wisdom on the art and practice of storytelling, responded to questions, and gave…
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Orla McGovern visits Study Abroad Ireland!
Orla McGovern visited Study Abroad Ireland in Athlone on Wednesday, June 23, 2022. Orla is an actor, writer, event organizer, and storyteller based in Galway. The participants were captivated by her compelling style of storytelling and how they felt pulled into her stories. Here are some of their comments: Isabel Abadia: I observed the way…
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Organizing Stories by Rhonda Brewer
We all spend so much time working on our stories. We all have our own process that includes some variation of the following.. A story must be chosen (or it chooses us); multiple versions must be researched; an organizer has to be created; the story needs to be crafted; multiple dry runs to family and…
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Practicum by Mindy Tarquini
prac·ti·cum /ˈpraktəkəm/ noun NORTH AMERICAN noun: practicum; plural noun: practicums a practical section of a course of study. Practicum, from the Latin practicus is a practical training or application of a skill learned over time. I went to school to become an ultrasound technologist, with plenty of practice and learning on my fellow students, but the real test…