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Blank Stares and Glittering Eyes: Adventures with Audiences

Articles, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog / July 30, 2013 / By Danni

By Cassandra Cushing Cassie is a Next Generation Scholarship recipient for attending the 2013 National Storytelling Conference, August 1-4 in Richmond, VA. My storytelling teachers and mentors told me that sometimes a synergy between the teller, the tale and the audience can emerge in an almost tangible relationship—an unseen but nonetheless palpable energy becomes present […]

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Businesses Can Connect Through Storytelling

Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, Business, National Storytelling Network, NSN Resources, Storytelling It's News! / July 29, 2013 / By Danni

Businesses Can Connect Through Storytelling The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT), July 29, 2013 Summary: Ty Bennett, the author of “The Power of Storytelling,” says stories are a big way to connect with audiences and customers. Storytelling works in a business presentation because stories make every presentation more engaging, dynamic, compelling and memorable.

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A Twist in the Tale

Business, Digital Storytelling, Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / July 6, 2013 / By Kathryn Dudding

The Hindu (Chennai, India), July 6, 2013 Summary: Indians are big on stories. This is a land of myths and mythologies; of tales with pious men and brave gods; of stories with carefully masked do’s and don’ts; of tickling anecdotes and gruesome monsters. We have always loved a good story, and we’ve always had storytellers.

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A Twist in the Tale

Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, Business, National Storytelling Network, NSN Resources, Storytelling It's News! / July 6, 2013 / By Danni

A Twist in the Tale The Hindu (Chennai, India), July 6, 2013 Summary: Indians are big on stories. This is a land of myths and mythologies; of tales with pious men and brave gods; of stories with carefully masked do’s and don’ts; of tickling anecdotes and gruesome monsters. We have always loved a good story,

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A Twist in the Tale

Business, Digital Storytelling, Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / July 6, 2013 / By Kathryn Dudding

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A Twist in the Tale

Business, Digital Storytelling, Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / July 6, 2013 / By Kathryn Dudding

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Stepping Into the Story Through Character Interpretation

Articles, National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog / July 2, 2013 / By Danni

by Darci Tucker “I suppose there was folks worse hurt than a bullet to the leg, for the surgeon left that part of the tent. And when he did, I saw, on a table nearby, a pile of bandages. So I grabbed as many of those bandages as I could hold, and I slid out

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Taking Story into Prison

Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, HSA, HSA Articles / July 1, 2013 / By Healing Stories SIG

by Katie Green. Once in a while, when someone leams that I tell stories in prison, they say “What?Are you crazy?” or they quip, “Well, at least you have a captive audience there!” Like many storytellers, most of my work is in schools, but taking storytelling into prison is one of the most rewarding things

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Circles Within Circles; Volunteer Storytelling Programs

Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, HSA, HSA Articles / July 1, 2013 / By Healing Stories SIG

by Gene and Peggy Helmick-Richardson. Why do we present volunteer storytelling programs at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and women’s shelter? That answer is both easy and complex; circles, circles within circles, circles above, circles below, circles overlapping. We try to do our storytelling programs in circles as much as possible. This cannot always

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Truth Telling and Forgiveness: Story, Culture and Change

Articles, Magazines, Newsletters, HSA, HSA Articles / July 1, 2013 / By Healing Stories SIG

by Loren Niemi. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville Telling your own story helps illuminate the universal in the specific. It lets you own your experience, emotions, pain and hope. Telling the story of the “Other” is an act of compassion that lets you recognize their humanity

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