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Transcript of Storytelling Overview Workshop for Heart & Soul Communities
Planning a Heart & Soul Storytelling Project
An Overview
April 6, 2009
Digital Explorations for Orton Family Foundation
Map Your Connection
An Exercise in Storytelling
Why Storytelling?
"There is no change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Meg Wheatley
"Stories of place do not simply mirror reality; they are subjective accounts of personal interaction with, and perceptions of, the environment, society and economy. It is these interactions and perceptions that indicate past and present sustainable or unsustainable relationships, and thus provide the basis and means for analysis of future sustainable directions of change.
The many and diverse regional stories must be told and listened to before
they can be weaved and transformed into a new regional story, and before a region can imagine a new and sustainable way into the future.
Realising and celebrating a sense of place encourages active citizenship and builds social capital, which is essential for the sustainability of a region, and provides a secure foundation for approaching the future. It could also be a powerful vehicle for reconciliation, with differing groups realising that they are linked by the same sense of concern for and attachment to a region. "
K. Longley, 2002, Stories for Sustainability, Sustainability Forum, Perth
What Can Stories & Storytelling Do for Us?
Bonding & Bridging
*Engaging community*Reconciling rifts*Creating sense of belonging
Transmission of Culture
*Lessons of the past*Realities of the present*Hopes for the future
Refer also to Orton’s Document: Why Storytelling?
Bonding & Bridging
Engaging the Community
Top Diagram fromA Storytelling Model of Civic Engagement in a Multiethnic Urban Space Yong-Chan Kim http://tinyurl.com/c2mztu
The Story Spiral
Gathering Information:
Community Values&
How to Act on Them
Do the stories reveal:
what we should let go of?what we should hold onto?what we should add?
Asking good questions
Sense of PlaceSense of Place
PhysicalBuilt environment
Natural environmentsGeography
ClimateNatural resources
PhysicalBuilt environment
Natural environmentsGeography
ClimateNatural resources
Non-physicalCharacter
HistoryCultural heritage
Spirituality
Non-physicalCharacter
HistoryCultural heritage
Spirituality
Heart & SoulHeart & Soul
(Mapping of Community &Setting of H & Soul goalscompleted; Storytelling Options matched;Storytelling Capacity matched)
Challenges!
Outreach:Engaging theFullCommunity
Locating &Engaging theHubs
Matching story type& scenarioto least likelyparticipants
Moving beyond the past
Clear & Precise Articulation of Values, Themes & Issues
Clear & Precise Articulation of Values, Themes & Issues
Language
Active Participation
Is anyonelistening?
VolunteerBurn-out
Who is helping?
Vs.
Thorny Issues
Original Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattpettengill/2880947744/
Uncomfortable
Disruptive
Finding Common Ground
The Importance of an Inclusive Process
From Glasgow’sImagining the Future of the Cityhttp://www.demos.co.uk/themes/~community/view//pg/2
From a Workshop at Woods Hole
http://www.greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=268
Map & Set Goals
Consider StoryOptions: how theymatch community& goals
Get Realistic aboutResources & Capacity
Plan Waves:
Moving from bondingto harvesting toactivecivic participation
The Four Phases
Hour Two: Story Options
Scenariowhere & who & when
Mediamatching type to goals, sharers
& resources
Scenario
See wiki pages on neighborhood events & story ideas
Storytelling Options
Individual Alone“My Story”
One-on-One: “My story/Her story”
Story Circle:“Our story/stories”
WHO WHAT WHY HOW
Personal ExperiencePerspectiveInsight
To give story holderownershipTo invite free-flow
All media & formsP:Community AlmanacNewspapers, bulletin boards,etc.
Audio InterviewsDigital StoriesWritten StoriesP: All publishing outlets
&Layering ofInteraction Values harvest
To connect/bondTo draw story outTo make it easy on story holder
&Group perspectiveContrasting viewsCommon groundValues-to-themes
To bond & bridge To focus on the telling To celebrate in the moment & take action
NeighborhoodCity-wideCollaborative StoriesP: In-the-moment Collected on maps
Co-creation Events:Mosaic
&Facilitated DialogueValue/Theme/Issue Harvest Hybrid events w/data
To embed the storiesWithin the communityTo celebrate, to bridgeTo lead to action
TheaterMurals & PublicationsPodcast Tours & Kiosks
Text-based Stories
•Newsletter•Community Almanac•Website/Blog/wiki•Self-published book•Forum
•Community displays: bulletin boards, etc.•Contests: essays, postcard stories•In combination with visual media & with public readings- radio or live events
Minnesotahttp://ww2.startribune.com/news/variety/voices/flash/index.shtml
VermontYoung Writers Projecthttp://youngwritersproject.org/
Community Almanac
www.communityalmanac.org
Visual Stories
• Visual artwork (exhibitions, murals, posters, quilts etc)
• Slide stories (online or at events)
• Postcards & ecards• Comics • Calendars
Installations
MuralsVancouverhttp://www.cacv.ca/pages/
mural.html
Face Up: North Carolinahttp://cds.aas.duke.edu/faceup/
Exhibitions: Online and In Town
Minnesotahttp://www.mnhs.org/exhibits/
lakestreet/
Alaska: Making films & screening them
Audio Stories
• Personal narratives• Interviews/oral histories• Story circles• Audio theater stories
• Story booths & events• Story tours• Story klatches• Community Almanac• Community radio• Combined with visual media
Story Tours
Murmur Project http://murmurtoronto.ca/
ArtMobs http://mod.blogs.com/art_mobs/
JHKunstler’s Walking Tour of Paris http://kunstlercast.com/shows/KunstlerCast_56_Virtual_Tour_Paris.html
Multimedia Stories
Voicethread; Soundslide; Collage; Digital Stories; Hypertext
Digital Stories & MapsOnline Tours
Alberta Community Walk http://www.communitywalk.com/calgary/alberta/my_first_neighborhood/map/140666
Ukiah PlaceMeant http://www.storymapping.org/placemeant.html
Youth Engagement
Skowhegan, Maine http://www.msad54.org/district/placedbaseded/index.shtml
Voices: Arizona Youth http://www.voicesinc.org/
City-wide Story Circles
Using Stories in Facilitated Dialogue Events
Meadowlark Institute
Hour Three:Trying it Out
Using role play, harvesting techniques and facilitated dialogue, we’ll explore storytelling as an effective means of bringing people together to share stories, to harvest values, and to thread them into dialogue about the future of the community.
A. Story Circle Role Play: Victor Map and Story HotspotsFour participants (preferably four with little or no experience with story circles) will share 2-minute stories about a place on the map that they associate with stories.
B. Value Harvest Exercise: What did you hear? Stickies and Wordle.
C. Deepening the Harvest Exercise: Relationships, themes and Issues--Clustering and Sunray charts
D. Finding the Issue for a Facilitated Dialogue: Using a simple matrix , we’ll sort the issues, and select one to engage with in a short facilitated dialogue.
Story Circles Plus
HarvestingValues
First Round:Stickie Notes & Wordle
Second Round: Grouping & Getting Specific
Third Round:
Selecting an Issue&
Having a FacilitatedDialogue
Sorting the Issues
actionabledisruptive
urgent
less pressing
HOUR FOUR:
PLANNING
Mapping Informal & Formal Groups,
Identities, Storytelling Capacity
Matching Map to Goals
Other Heart & Soul Approaches
Planning the Waves
Questions?
Check the Envision Victor Storytelling Wiki
http://envisionvictorstorytelling.pbwiki.com/
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