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Storytelling is not just entertainment. It’s a fundamental part of being human

Diversity, Education, Healing, Personal Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / March 30, 2020 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

CBC.CA March 29, 2020 Stories let us share information in a way that creates an emotional connection. They help us to understand that information and each other, and it makes the information memorable. Because stories create an emotional connection, we can gain a deeper understanding of other people’s experiences. That not only helps us to […]

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The Strong Women Project ~ Strengthening Our Communities through Storytelling

HSA, HSA Articles, HSA Move, Journal Archives / March 27, 2020 / By Danni

DIVING IN THE MOON HONORING STORY, FACILITATING HEALING ©Srebrenka Peregrin and Erika Katačić Kožić The storytelling scene in Croatia is still in its fledgling state, but thanks to several dedicated storytellers scattered throughout the country, it is slowly starting to spread its wings. The two of us met at a local storytelling event in 2014,

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Every Town Should have a Storyville

Applied Storytelling, Articles, Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, Member, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, NSN News, Personal Storytelling, Stories / March 3, 2020 / By Danni

It is close to 7:00 P.M, the library closes in two hours. People come in from the cold, some faces are familiar, there is older Flora and her daughter who consistently arrive before anyone else. Strangers find a seat in the back only to hear “the best seats are up front.” The new bright purple

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Story Now Interview: Living Proof Advocacy, Tim Cage and John Capecci

Applied Storytelling, Articles, Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, Become A Storyteller, Business, Diversity, Education, Member, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, NSN News, Personal Storytelling, Stories, Story Now! Interview Series, Storytelling in Organizations, Storytelling It's News! / March 3, 2020 / By Danni

At the National Storytelling Network, our mission is to advance all forms of storytelling within the community through promotion, advocacy, and education. STORY NOW! Interview Series The theme of our 2019 annual conference was Story Now! Now! From the boardroom to the classroom, and the page to the stage, personal stories and folktales are catalysts

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Our fiction addiction: why humans need stories

Diversity, Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / February 18, 2020 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

BBC.com May 3, 2018 Today, the average adult is still thought to spend at least 6% of the waking day engrossed in fictional stories on our various screens. From an evolutionary point of view, that would be an awful lot of time and energy to expend on pure escapism, but psychologists and literary theorists have

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Challenges to Those Who Respond with Story – A Call Out to Storytellers

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By Kevin Cordi Challenges to Those Who Respond with Story – A Call Out to Storytellers One must continually reflect when they chose to take on the ‘mantle of storyteller’ or decide to use stories in their work and daily life. For over 25 years, I work to honor this mantle. This includes not only

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Story Now Interview: Jackie & Papa Wright, Jr. – St. Louis, Missouri

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Special lunch connects refugees, Amish, and communities with storytelling

Diversity, Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / January 6, 2020 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

CBS 21 December 14, 2019 Lancaster City was named the 6th “Welcoming City” in the U.S. this past September. As part of the Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement program, 401 asylum seekers now call Lancaster home. And while Lancaster has many Amish families who have lived there for many generations, there’s not a lot of mixing between

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South Korea trains grandmothers to become professional storytellers

Education, Storytelling It's News! / January 6, 2020 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

ABC News December 28, 2019 To foster communication between generations and enhance social participation on the part of the elderly, The Korean Studies Institute started the storytelling granny program in 2009 to train female senior citizens to tell old tales to kindergartners. “I tell over 30 stories to children in a year. I hope they

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Story Now Interview: Karen Dietz – San Diego, California

Applied Storytelling, Articles, Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, Become A Storyteller, Business, Member, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, NSN News, Stories We Live, Story Now! Interview Series, Storytelling in Organizations, Storytelling It's News! / January 1, 2020 / By Danni

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