Category Archives: Storytelling

The Social Punks Podcast: Update

Posted on July 16, 2018 by

I wrote the other week about a series of six podcasts that i’m working on: they each explore a broad aspect of the Social Age, but with a punk perspective. In other words, they look at broadly what is happening, … Continue reading →

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The Violence of Stories

Posted on June 27, 2018 by

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words are, allegedly, harmless. Or maybe not. There can be a violence in communication, not an act of physical aggression, but aggression nonetheless. The violence of vitriol, carefully constructed to cause pain. I … Continue reading →

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Social Leadership Storytelling Certification: Technique #1 – Diagonal Storytelling

Posted on June 20, 2018 by

Today i am #WorkingOutLoud and sharing one of the techniques i’m using for the Social Leadership Storytelling certification. This one concerns ‘Diagonal Storytelling’, which is an activity intended to stretch storytellers out of their comfort zone, and help to connect … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on the Storytelling Certification: Running Experiments

Posted on June 18, 2018 by

Sharing a quick update on this work: i’m designing a twelve week certification around Storytelling for Social Leaders, and today have finalised the structure. It will be a twelve week journey, split between two sections: the first covers ‘Ideas and … Continue reading →

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The Mechanisms of Storytelling Certification

Posted on June 7, 2018 by

A short #WorkingOutLoud post, following yesterday’s introduction of the draft content for the Social Leadership Storytelling Certification that i’m developing throughout June. The image below is intended to illustrate the design approach: introducing key ideas, to provide a framework of … Continue reading →

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Storytelling to Power

Posted on May 8, 2018 by

I used this phrase in a document today, discussing ‘innovation’, and the way that our challenge may not be around ideas, but rather in finding power behind our voice, to create the social movement to allow those ideas to be … Continue reading →

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What Would Help You To Tell A Story?

Posted on February 19, 2018 by

I’m writing the research report from the Communities of Practice research project today: this is exploring how people engage in CoPs, and the barriers that may prevent them from doing so. The output will be a series of guidelines and … Continue reading →

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