Storytelling ideas and resources

We live in story like fish live in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

A good story holds the moral dimension to capture heart and minds. Good storytelling sparks innovation. From Ovid to Shakespeare, writers have used their creative power to engage the audience. Today social entrepreneurs all over the world are realizing that effective storytelling can inspire a happy ending.

Storytelling can indeed influence social change. And the time is now. Thanks to the social Web, the creative pen comes in many shapes and sizes and we have massive distribution channels right at our fingertips. Today, each of us has the opportunity, and the platform, to not only share our [...]

Inside your head and mine, there is a narrator. He or she is constantly telling us stories. These stories shape how we perceive reality. In fact, if we don't intervene, these stories can shape our destiny for the worse. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/1001nights

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Ernest Hemingway. If you think Twitter is abbreviated communication, how about this one: can you tell your entire life story in exactly six words? Welcome to the Six Word Memoir Project, birthed from the brain and heart of Larry Smith, founder and editor of SMITH magazine, an online repository for people's personal stories.

Learn to tell stories that advocate your ideas and bring others along with you Studies show that we are wired to remember stories much more than data, facts, and figures. However, when data and story are used together, audiences are moved both emotionally and intellectually.