Special Interest Group (SIG)
Pre-Conference
Sessions
Wednesday, July
7th
Lessons from the
Field: Exploring the Emergence of Organizational Storytelling
Produced by
Storytelling in Organizations, A Special Interest Group of NSN
Track 1 - 8:00
AM -5:00 PM
The Storytelling
in Organizations (SIO) Special Interest Group is designed to bring
together individuals, practitioners, and organizations interested in
using storytelling in organizations. Members include organizational
leaders and psychologists, business managers and consultants,
facilitators, scientists, engineers, performing storytellers, and
story coaches. We seek to continually learn from and support each
other across application domains, technologies, and cultures.
Our pre-conference
program will be exploring the business applications of this year's
overall theme Embracing the Power of Storytelling. The use of
narrative storytelling in an organizational setting is a new and
developing field. We intend to bring together thought leaders and
trendsetters in the field, as well as offer a framework that
facilitates participants meeting, collaborating, and sharing new ideas
and discoveries.
Wednesday's
program will offer a highly interactive series of sessions including
world café-style full group interactions, keynote speakers, a panel on
storytelling and technology, and an offering of practical applications
workshops. The day has been designed to offer participants an
overview of the field, practical applications, and an opportunity to
create a network of supportive and stimulating colleagues.
For more information
go to:
http://www.storytellinginorganizations.com/ext-2004-pre-conf.shtml
Ease Your Financial Worries and More
Produced by Organizers,
A Special Interest Group of NSN
Track 2 -
8:30AM -5:00PM
In today's economic
climate, we are all worried about raising enough money to produce our
next storytelling event, whether it's an evening cabaret for adults or
a four-day festival. During this one-day pre-conference, learn the
basics of developing a fundraising plan to meet your financial goals.
The fundraising plan will include diversified income sources,
fundraising strategies, and how to use a fund gift range chart. Along
with developing a fundraising plan, participants will learn how to
develop a feasible budget that is an essential tool throughout the
planning and implementation process of a storytelling event.
In most cases, to meet the
goals of your budget and to achieve a certain level of success, one
must also use a marketing plan. Participants will learn how to develop
a marketing plan that includes strategies to build audiences and
promote the art of storytelling. Finally, participants will learn how
to develop specific evaluation tools and a documentation manual for
each event, program, or activity.
Join Ellen Munds, executive
director of Storytelling Arts of Indiana; Karen Morgan, executive
director of the Tejas Storytelling Association; and Steve Kardaleff,
the past executive director of the National Storytelling Network to
learn about these essential tools for planning a storytelling event.
The first half of the day
will be spent on fundraising utilizing a large group format of lecture
and discussion. During small breakout sessions after lunch,
participants will have the chance to discuss and develop a budget,
marketing, and evaluation plan that will ensure success when arranging
a public event.
For more information go to:
http://www.organizersig.org/
The Healing Voice of Story:
Transforming Lives and Communities
Produced by
Healing Story
Alliance,
A Special Interest Group of NSN
Track 3 - 8:30AM
-5:00PM
Within each of
us is a storyteller waiting for the call to transform and empower
ourselves and others, according to British story healer Alexander
MacKenzie. This invaluable pre-conference program will explore
innovative techniques designed to bring forth our “inner storyteller.”
First, the
Tuesday evening concert will feature stories by our distinguished
pre-conference workshop presenters, storytellers Nancy Duncan and
Alexander MacKenzie. Along with honored Healing Story Alliance (HSA)
chair Gail Rosen, they will tell tales that encourage
self-empowerment, peace, and community building.
On Wednesday,
after a brief general session, participants will select one of two
highly experiential workshop intensives. This is a unique opportunity
to work in a concentrated format with a master in the field of healing
story. We will discover and explore the healing aspects of personal
stories in Nancy Duncan’s “Power Stories: The Roots of Healing.” In
Alexander MacKenzie’s “Risking the Heart,” we will experience
“spontaneous storytelling” as an "emergent language of the heart.”
When the workshops draw to a close in the afternoon, we will gather in
Story Circles to exchange tales we have found useful in specific
healing applications, and to share practical methods for working with
transformational stories in various contexts. In order to give
participants sufficient time to prepare, Story Circle themes and
guidelines will appear in the HSA newsletter and on the website,
www.healingstory.org.
For complete
pre-conference details:
http://www.healingstory.org/events/precon/hsa_preconference_july_2004.html
For more information on this SIG, go to:
http://www.healingstory.org/
The New Horizon: Hearing
Young Voices
Produced by Youth Storytelling, A Special Interest Group of NSN
Track 4 - 8:00 AM -5:00 PM
This
pre-conference program includes an all-day, 2-track schedule stuffed
to bursting with nine great idea-packed workshops, a featured speaker,
live coaching sessions and a "Review, Reflect, and Retain" session to
bring it all home!
To
start off, nationally renowned story educator and co-author of
Raising Voices: Youth Storytelling Groups and Troupes, Kevin
Cordi, will tell us about "The Next Step and How to Take It." Then
we'll start our journey with guidepost workshops including Lyn Ford's
"Story Partners: Writing with Young Storytellers K-3;" Debi Richan's
"Teaching Teachers to Teach Storytelling;" Naomi Leitham and Mary Jo
Huff's "Telling for the Littlest Listeners;" and Granny Sue Holstein's
"Participation Stories for Teen Tellers." After lunch we'll continue
down our storytelling path with Alton Chung's "Connections of
Storytelling;" Nannette Watts' "All in the Family Storytelling;" Thom
Bristow's "A Time and a Place for Stories;" and Elizabeth Rose's
"Youth Tellers: A Springboard to Literacy."
But
wait, there's more! Story coach and author Judy Sima, along with other
expert coaches, will fascinate us with a demonstration of coaching
young storytellers. Live and in person, they will show us how to
encourage, enliven, and excite young tellers to their own
possibilities. To bring the whole day home, we'll finish it off with a
session to "Review, Reflect, and Retain," a brief follow-up with each
of the workshop leaders and the opportunity for last minute questions
and comments.
For more information go to:
http://www.storynet-youthsig.org/
O Brave New
World!
Storytelling and the Academy in Transition
Produced by Storytelling in Higher Education,
A Special Interest Group of NSN
Track 5 - 8:30 AM -4:30 PM
In the fifth century B.C., Plato evicted the epic
storytellers from the Academy of his ideal Republic. He saw them as
primitive, emotional beings, incapable of the higher education he
envisioned for his Philosopher-Kings. This great divide between
storytellers and the
Academy has persisted and hardened in western
society, as cultures of the book have tended to value abstract theory
over the sensuous, imaginative, and playful worlds of story. The
recent revival of storytelling has gathered its force within a new
global village, linked by electronic media, of which the computer is
the latest and most potent incarnation. In this transforming
environment, can Storytelling be a medium of reconciliation between
the current Philosopher-Kings of Academe and the new democratic
populace?
The SHE SIG presents a special pre-conference
which brings a broad historical context to the expanding roles of
storytelling in colleges and universities, as well as offering lively
debate and practical guidance on storytelling in the traditional
classroom and the Brave New VirtualWorld. The pre-conference will
feature Kieran Egan, Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University
in British Columbia; Leland Zahner Roloff, Jungian analyst and
Professor Emeritus of Performance Studies at Northwestern University
in Evanston, Illinois; Elizabeth Figa, Assistant Professor in the
School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North
Texas, and Janice Del Negro, Director of the Center for Children’s
Books in the School of Library and Information Science at University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and several other leading advocates
of Storytelling in Higher Education.
For more information go to:
http://courses.unt.edu/efiga/SHESIG/SHESIG.htm
Stories
for Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Environmental Storytelling
Produced by NSN
Track 6 - 8:30 AM -5:00 PM
This daylong, experiential workshop offers
participants the joys and challenges of sharing environmentally themed
stories, information and creative ideas on anthropomorphism,
scientific accuracy, multiple-intelligence theory, and sources for
environmental tales.
Beginning with a few indoor activities,
participants can then choose between two outdoor tracks: Track one is
a crash course in the natural history of all manner of the earth’s
flora, fauna and natural phenomena. Track two offers activities
designed for naturalists/environmental educators/interpreters to
combine their knowledge of nature with storytelling techniques
including imagery, character development, and creating/learning a
story. Sharing our experiences will complete the day.
An array of professionals will lead this
adventure. Linda Yemoto, a professional naturalist with the East Bay
Regional Park District in California, has worked more than thirty
years in natural and cultural history interpretation. Naturalist and
herbalist, Doug Elliott is an author and nationally known storyteller,
who has performed from Canada to the Caribbean. Fran Stallings has
taught biology, plant physiology, and field botany at University of
Wisconsin and other universities. Kevin Strauss is a professional
storyteller, naturalist, and adjunct faculty member of University of
St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN. Bev Twillmann has received high acclaim
for her workshops and keynotes in the creative use of story techniques
to enhance educational and interpretive programming.
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