Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL), October 25, 2016 Summary: As part of CEO Oscar Munoz’s revamping of United Airlines, a new position has been created and filled: Chief Storyteller Dana Brooks Reinglass. Jim Olsen, United’s senior vice president of corporate communications, explained: “The idea is using stories to give employees and customers a window seat to how we’re doing […]
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The Chronicle – the online student newspaper at Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, May 27, 2016 Summary: Los Angeles, CA — Students from the HW Go! Vietnam trip exhibited their film and photography projects at Harvard-Westlake School on May 18. A total of 10 photographic pieces and nine student films were displayed. The subject of the projects,
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By Danni Altman-Newell, Marketing & Membership Manager Happy Holidays! Can you believe 2017 is already coming to a close? I can’t! The last five months have been a whirlwind of activity for the Kansas City office staff. The year-end message from the Board of Directors gave you a peek behind the curtain of some of
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Shreveport Times (part of the USA Today Network), December 19, 2017 By Henrietta Wildsmith When Amy Lynn Treme stepped out on stage to tell her story at a recent All Y’all Live event, she was nervous. She felt her thoughts were all over the place. She told about her job at a pet shop in Bossier
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The Oklahoman (NewsOK.com), December 17, 2017 By Mary Mélon | The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools Summary: Every student deserves to feel like a hero. That was the message for 177 graduating teachers at the University of Central Oklahoma, along with various education and community leaders at last week’s annual luncheon, Honoring a Noble
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sung by Mike Agranoff Click to listen agranoff-song I’ve always loved self-referential humor. Monty Python, Max Fleischer, and Warner Brothers cartoons used the device of a conflict between the author and his character to great effect. This one was written by Andy Breckman, whom I first saw performing at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. But he’s
By Pam Faro I was about to hit “Send” on the blog piece I’d finally completed, inviting readers on a little trip down my memory lane about how this girl who was raised in White, Christian, middle-class, 1960s-70s Midwestern America came to be offering a 3-hour intensive on “Interfaith Storytelling” at this month’s National Storytelling
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NSN members bring together a remarkable depth and breadth of storytelling experience in individual, organizational and professional development. They share this expertise through workshops, master classes, conferences and teleconferences, special interest and discussion groups, list serves and forums, as well as one-on-one and group mentoring. They share among NSN members, as well as bringing storytelling’s
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by Anne Tezon “When you are young, your grandparents try to tell you their history, and you don’t care because it doesn’t interest you at the time. Later on, you wish you had written down what they said.” A good friend shared that message on my Facebook timeline more than a year ago. I use
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by Heather Forest Ancient and epic tales have migrated with people wherever people have traveled the globe. Carried in the heart rather than the hand, these ancient narratives are humanity’s heirlooms. They have been preserved over time by the tongues of tellers and have migrated into literature, captured by scribes. In my workshop intensive at
