storytelling week 1 guide

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Appreciate why storytelling is such a valuable tool in helping you todrive your change initiatives

Be clearer in your own mind about what you do and why you do it Have begun building important relationships with your Story Team thatwill enhance your learning experience

WELCOME TOSTORYTELLING FOR CHANGE:By Greta Cowan and Richard Richards, The Ariel GroupThis document contains the below materials you will need for Week 1:

MaterialsChecklistRead through this on your ownbefore working on yourassignments and meeting withyour Story Team.

Estimated time: 1.5-2.0 hoursdepending on your reading speed

Every week, you will be given acheck list. Please use this to see ifyou are on track for this course.

Learning activities for Week 1

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ChecklistsWelcome! Please make sure you have.

Reviewed the Home page on the Course website for this courseThe page (http://bit.ly/19t7iob) includes the following:(1) Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen, 2005 TED Talk

(http://bit.ly/19QuhYi)(2) Learning Outcomes of this course(3) Course Logistics of this course

STORYTELLING FOR CHANGE Week 1 |Introduction to the Course

This week you should.. (individually)Familiarize yourself with the Key Concepts of the week- Please see Page 3Complete the assignments (due Jan 19th)- Please see Page 4

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ScheduleRecommended- Complete the individual pre-assignment by January 19th- Attend your Story Team session during the week starting January 19th(Sun)

Watched the short video on Introduction to Storytelling- The video can be found on the Lecture 1 page where this PDF was placed athttps://novoed.com/storytelling-change/lecture_pages/610Filled out your prole on Novoed-Your prole (location, primary language, bio, etc) can be updated at:https://novoed.com/storytelling-change/proles/edit.

Filled out your pre-course Survey-The link to the survey is here (https://novoed.com/storytelling-change/surveys/360)

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Why Storytelling is Important

For over 27,000 years, since the rst cave paintingwere discovered, telling stories has been one ofour most fundamental communication methodsand researchers have said that our brains arehard-wired to listen to and tell stories. Moreover,storytelling is a skill that transcends language,

culture and geographical boundaries. It isuniversal and relevant in almost everycommunication situation.

Stories, Important to You and Your ChangeInitiatives

Personal stories allow you to share something ofyourself with others and in so doing you:

Create a connection with your listeners byshowing you have things in common

Give others an insight into who you are andyour personal experiences

Demonstrate your vulnerability (chinks inyour armor) that make you more human its difcult to form a relationship with aperfect person!

Capture the essence of your message in away that is personal to you and more easilyunderstood by your audience

What Sorts of Stories Can You Tell?

Tell Who I AmStories about moments that made you who youare or that claried your values, i.e. what othersneed to know to believe in you, follow your ideasand/or work enthusiastically with you

Tell Who We AreStories about values of your organization orcommunity, i.e. what makes up the DNA of yourorganization or community?

Teach a LessonStories that show how you learned somethingthrough failure or success, how you mastered asocial or work skill, or how you overcame

resistance to change

Motivate ChangeStories that shed light on whats wrong with thepresent situation, i.e. share dangerous mistakesfrom the past, establish the case for change,create a vision for the future

Change the FrameStories that allow your audience to see a problemthrough a different lens or from a differentperspective, that help to diffuse or change the

emotional climate of a situation

We will begin this course by exploring how to tell

personal stories your own stories of successand/or failure, of triumph and/or despair.

Key Concepts

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Stories are how we think. They are how we makemeaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts,cognitive maps, mental models, metaphors, ornarratives. Stories are how we explain how thingswork, how we make decisions, how we persuadeothers, how we understand our place in the world,create identities, and dene and teach socialvalues. Dr. Pamela Rutledge

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1: Create/submit Your Life Map

Please follow the instruction on this pagehttp://bit.ly/1hTZvlZon the NovoEd platformunder Assignment tab. Estimated time for thisassignment is 15-30 minutes. Submissiondeadline: Jan 19th.

2: Prepare yourself to lead or join a StoryTeam

You will be expected to form a Story Team aspart of this course. If you joined this course witha team in mind you could have them as your

story Team Member. If you have a good internetconnection, you could meet your potential teamonline as well. We highly recommend forming ateam with people you can meet with in personbut if you could meet them online, that is neas well.

Story Team meetings are an important and funpart of the course. This is where you will discussthe material, practice with a friendly audience,and learn from each other.

Please see P5-6 for more information on StoryTeam formation. Same instruction and a tab toCreate New Team can be found at this pagehttp://bit.ly/1dnYJdjon the NovoEd platformunder Assignment tab.

Deadline: Jan 19th

3: Identify a presentation you would like todevelop throughout this course

When learning any new skill, it is important topractice the skill soon after learning how to useit. Tomorrows success is todays practice! Soplease take this course prepared by following thebelow:

Identify a presentation you need to make inthe near future (ideally in the next 1-6 weeks)

Who would be the audience? It could be anaudience of one or of many people. Why

would they be listening to you and whatwould they want to hear?

What is the key message of yourpresentation that you could support with apersonal story?

What is the outcome you would like toachieve as a result of this presentation?What would your audience think, feel or dodifferently as a result of your presentation?

You will revisit this and will be asked to haveyour presentation materials (PowerPoint, ipcharts, visual aids or props) ready for Week 5 ofthis course.

For this week, identifying the above and havinganswers ready for the above questions would besufcient.

4: Schedule your rst Story Team Sessionand follow the guideline

Once your Story Team agrees on a date, pleaseuse the guide in P7-P12 to conduct your rst StoryTeam Session.

AssignmentPlease complete the assignments below and upload them on your own before meeting with your StoryTeam.


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Teams are self-formed on the Create aNew Team tab

Anyone may create a teamWhen you create a team you are the TeamLeader. Once you create a Team, a new menu

item will be added to your navigation bar at thetop of the page.

The Team Leader can add new members byentering their email address or by using theinvite button on their prole.

When creating a Team, use detailed descriptionsand information so that others will be able tothoughtfully consider whether your location andinterests may be a good match.

As mentioned above, this Team Leader couldalternate among your team members later.

If you started a Team and are looking formembers:Use the Students menu under Community torecruit your classmates to join your Team.

If you are looking for a Team to join:Use the contact button on the team page tocontact all team members or the team leader to

join the team. You can also use the Forums ofthis course athttps://novoed.com/storytelling-change/forumsThere is a discussion category titled Forming/

Joining a Story Team. Please feel free to initiate anew discussion thread.

Story Team Formation

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The instructions below describes how to form and join teams on the NovoEd platform. Although thereis one leader who manages the team through the system and throughout the course, you may chooseto assign a different team leader for each session, rotating through the team members each week. Thechoice is yours.


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Team Notication under ConversationsEvery time you get invited to a team, you willreceive a new invitation under yourConversations, Team notication tab. Theinvitation message contains links to accept orreject an invitation. Note the team leader will notbe able to invite you again if you reject theirinvitation

Open and dynamic structureTeam formation has a very open dynamicstructure. At any point of this course you candecide to leave a Team and join a new one,without penalty.

The Team Leader can decide to remove inactive

or uncooperative members from the Team. Inthat case the member will receive a teamnotication about this decision, and if you thinkthe Team Leader has made a mistake, you canappeal the Team Leaders decision. If half ofTeam Members agree with you; you will be addedback as a member of the Team.

If a Team Leader chooses to leave his/her Team,he/she can assign Team Leadership to anothermember.

You may only be a member of one Team at atime.

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Appreciate why storytelling is such a valuable tool in helping you todrive your change initiatives

Be clearer in your own mind about what you do and why you do it Have begun to build important relationships with your Story Team thatwill enhance your learning experience

WELCOME TOSTORYTELLING FOR CHANGE:By Greta Cowan and Richard Richards, The Ariel Group

Please use the following guide to conduct your Story Team SessionYour Session should be approximately 2 hours (depending on your team size)

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SESSION Approx.2 HOURSLab leader, please welcome everyoneto the very rst session meeting andguide the team through the followingactivity and discussion questions.

Appoint one of your team membersto be timekeeper for this session.

Agenda123

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Introductions and Course Logistics15 minutesShare Life Maps and Discussion40-60 minutes depending on the group sizeReviewing Your Presentation15 minutes depending on the group sizeAhas

10 minutes5Preparing for Week 25 minutes

Materials! A printed or electronic copy of this Guide! Something to keep time with! Access to a computer and monitor/projector, withsound and Internet access to watch videos online

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INTRODUCTIONS & COURSE LOGISTICS115 minutesBrief Introduction

Take a moment to do introductions by sharingyour name, organization, location, etc. You willlearn more about each other when you shareyour Life Maps in the later exercise during thissession.

Estimated time required for this course

You will have about one to two hours of workeach week to prepare for your lab group. Each labis scheduled to take about two hours.

Calendar

You should plot your lab group meetings on acalendar with your group. Can everyone committo attend all the sessions? If not, mark dates thatmembers might miss and plan accordingly orreschedule.

Below are our recommended schedule for hostingyour Story Team Sessions. The updates will bereected in the Google Calendar posted under thecourse Home page:https://novoed.com/storytelling-change/home

Session #1: Between Jan 19-Jan 25Session #2: Between Jan 26-Feb 1Session #3: Between Feb 2-Feb 8Session #4: Between Feb 9-Feb 15Session #5: Between Feb 16-Feb 22Session #6: Between Feb 23-March 1

Story Team Leader

Although there is one leader who manages theteam through the system and throughout theprogram, you may choose to assign a differentStory Team Leader for each session, rotatingthrough the team members each week. Thechoice is yours!

The team leader will be responsible for reviewing

the guide before the weekly session so that theycan lead the lab discussion and activities. Youshould coordinate with your team to schedulewho will be the leader for each week during thisrst session.

Your Team Norms

We recommend that your group takes a momentto set a few rules or norms for how you wouldlike the weekly meetups to function Here aresome questions to get you going:

. How can you structure the weekly meeting toensure that an environment of mutual trustand respect is created?

How should feedback (both positive andnegative) be communicated so that eachindividual and the team get the most out of it?

Are there other rules that you can think ofwhich will make the weekly meetups runmore smoothly?

There is a category on this in the Course Forumif you would like to share your team norms inthe Forum and learn from others.

The lab leader should guide the discussion. This course has a group-guided learning structure andwill be most successful if you follow as closely as possible to the guidelines below. Discuss each ofthese guidelines and determine if there will be any problems and map out potential solutions.

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Prepare to share (5)

Please have your submitted Life Map ready to share with your Team. Each personwill have 5 minutes to present the highlights of their Life Maps.

We encourage you to focus your description around the social cause that you arecurrently most passionate about. You are all taking this course because you areinterested in creating change via storytelling. What change are you interested increating and why? What part of your Life Map is related to your passion and whatother emotions/behaviors illustrated in your Life Map would you like to emphasizeto the Team?

Share (30-50)

Each person gets to go in turn to share . Make sure someone in your Team keepstrack of time so everyone has enough time to share their Life Map. Those who arelistening could reect back what they heard as values and strengths based on theindividuals life experiences and choices. (5 minutes per person to share + 3-5minutes for feedback from the Team)

Debrief exercise (5)

!How has this exercise changed the relationships in the group?!What was the most powerful/surprising/useful aspect of this exercise?!Was there any similarities you noticed among the Team members?

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Reecting on your Assignment 1 from P5..

When learning any new skill, it is important to practice the skill soon after learninghow to use it. Tomorrows success is todays practice! So please take this courseprepared by following the below:

Identify a presentation you need to make in the near future (ideally in the next1.-6 weeks)

Who would be the audience? It could be an audience of one of of many people.Why would they be listening to you and what would they want to hear?

What is the key message of your presentation that you could support with apersonal story?

What is the outcome you would like to achieve as a result of this presentation?What would your audience think, feel or do differently as a result of yourpresentation?

It is important to make sure you have a plan before you move on tothe following weeks. Please use this time to discuss and make surethat everyone has something to work with.

Please share your responses to below briey to your Team.

1) When you are planning to make the presentation,2) To whom that presentation would be for3) The key message you wish to convey4) The outcome you would like to achieve as a result of this presentationIf someone from your team is struggling to come up with one, please help each otherto brainstorm ideas!

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Reect on your AHAS, then Share

At Acumen, we have a practice of sharing ahas on a regular basis. It is a way toreect on an experience and to gain more insight into the world and yourself. Take 1-2minutes to think and write down your aha: a key take-away, a new perspective, amemorable comment or questions, or a parting thought from this lab.

Then share your aha with the group. If you are struggling to come up with an aha,heres a question to help you: If you were to tell your friend about this experiencetomorrow, what would you tell them?

Please feel share to post your ahas on the Course Forum after your Story TeamSession at: https://novoed.com/storytelling-change/forums/713(Forum>Topics>Week1)

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AHAS410 minutesPREPARING FOR SESSION #255 minutes

Conrm with your Story Team

Conrmwhen you are holding your next session and who the lab leader is going to be.

Have a great week!Materials for Week 2 will be posted under Lecture on January 21st

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