Storytelling to Connect & Persuade Workshop: The Original Tool For Human Connection
Touch your listeners with stories
Storytelling to Connect & Persuade Workshop
aka The Original Tool For Human Connection
Need to be succinct at work? Or simply stay on topic? Want to pique a customer’s interest? Instruct or amuse someone or some people? Want to share your point of view? Going for a job interview? Meeting new friends? Illustrate an abstract idea or concept. Resolve a conflict? Want to be heard? Tell a story.
What you get
- A foolproof 5-step fill in the blank process to tell a compelling five-sentence story on the fly, a framework for all your storytelling needs.
- Learn to connect with your inner self and with others.
- Learn to use your voice to persuade and influence listeners.
- Develop the skill of seeing your past with today’s lens, and reimagine your present, which opens you to change and the future.
What you learn
- why stories are powerful/ your brain on story
- how to design a story/ the 3 elements
- how to tell a story that connects and persuades/the 5 steps
- extra sauce: show don’t tell, dialog, time, sensory details
Who should attend
Women and men who want to use the power of stories to connect with themselves and with others. To persuade clients, customers, colleagues, friends, family. This online workshop is for 1 to 5 participants, every Friday from Noon to 2PM. Email mahani@storyheartschool.com for other dates and times.
The program
The science behind stories. Your brain not on story and your brain on story. Dr. Uri Hasson’s experiment and the connection between storyteller’s and story listeners’ brain activities during storytelling, and why storytelling is powerful.
The 3 elements of purposeful storytelling.
The 5-step storytelling process and how to use each step.
Fill in the blanks/Tell a 5-sentence story on the fly.
Show don’t tell—how show don’t tell taps into the senses and powers your story. Checking in with your body and using your senses.
Using time—to ground the story, to move the story, to enrich the story by standing still.
Voice—accents, dialog, sound, rhythm, humor
Taking care of you, and your listeners—determining if you are scratching a wound, scab, or scar.
Tell your 5-sentence story using one or more of the following: show don’t tell, sensory detail, time, voice.
