The power of storytelling
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Storytelling has its own importance when it comes to presentation. Following is an wonderful experience shared for all to see.
The power of storytelling
- 1. THE POWER OF STORY Based On a TEDTalk By Susan Conley
- 2. THERE ARE 3 AMAZING THINGS ABOUT STORYTELLING.
- 3. Children have amazingly rich imaginations, deep fantasy. Story gives them access to their lives.
- 4. There are amazing people who dedicate their lives to writings. They spend miraculous hours in isolations, taking risks on the pages. They influences others.
- 5. We get this magical alchemy of this living writer, teaching the child. They discover them and their potentials.
- 6. LIFE CAN BE CHANGED BY STORYTELLING .
- 7. Susan Conley was asked to write stories in her childhood. She was diagramming sentences all week.
- 8. Susan Conley was asked to write stories in her childhood. She was diagramming sentences all week. She got a place for her daydreaming she had when she was 13 through her writings.
- 9. Susan Conley was asked to write stories in her childhood. She was diagramming sentences all week. She got a place for her daydreaming she had when she was 13 through her writings. Her teacher once told that poetry will change her life. It says the unsay able in the world . All she did was nod her head. She worked hard after that.
- 10. After 25 years she got her poetry degree in California. She is now a writer.
- 11. She now takes poetry workshop in various places.
- 12. One such workshop was in the Long Creek Youth Prison.
- 13. She asked them to take one of the object she bought with her and leave the jail from their mind and go back in time. She asked them to write.
- 14. The boys wrote. They took great pride in their writing that night.
- 15. Later Susan thought about opening a writing centre where she could teach the kids the magic of story before they get into trouble.
- 16. During her workshop in Portland she met Oliver.
- 17. He wrote a fantastic piece called, ¡°My house is a rotting Snake pit¡±. Here he talked about a snake which lodges itself on the wall of his house and then he uses this basis as a long argument with his Mom why they should move.
- 18. Later Oliver read this piece to all his families when they came to the work shop on the last day.
- 19. Later Oliver read this piece to all his families when they came to the work shop on the last day. He did a significant job. He had a significant speed impediment. He had so significant impact that his father was deeply moved to hear him read. His father had never heard him read like that.
- 20. Here was a kid who was struggling to find the speaking voice and he was telling his story.
- 21. Susan met Jackson in the House Project 15. It was mainly a house project where many high school students came.
- 22. ¡°Jackson you have got 15 minutes. Tell me about the last day of you in Sudan.¡±
- 23. Jackson wrote. He wrote that when he touched the airport, it was like a crazy soccer arena and he had never seen more white people in a room in his life before. He was so scared that he sat down in the terminal.
- 24. Susan learnt that Teenagers love to be timed. They love the beginning, the middle, the end.
- 25. Susan learnt that Teenagers love to be timed. They love the beginning, the middle, the end. We all have been moved by some incidents in our life.
- 26. Susan learnt that Teenagers love to be timed. They love the beginning, the middle, the end. We all have been moved by some incidents in our life. There is no wrong way to writing. Just put your heart in your writing
- 27. Lot of good researches have been done about power of story telling.
- 28. It is found that if kids can just get 15 minutes of writing time, great things can happen. They graduate from high schools. They go to colleges. They keep jobs.
- 29. It is found that if kids can just get 15 minutes of writing time, great things can happen. They graduate from high schools. They go to colleges. They keep jobs. It is seen that kids particularly from war torn countries or from hard homes have some emotional literacy.
- 30. It is found that if kids can just get 15 minutes of writing time, great things can happen. They graduate from high schools. They go to colleges. They keep jobs. It is seen that kids particularly from war torn countries or from hard homes have some emotional literacy. It¡¯s this ability for the kid to say what they mean and who they are.
- 31. SO...
- 33. Express yourself. Who am I ? Why do I matter?
- 34. Power of story changes lives.
- 35. Power of story changes lives. It offers permission to access your lives, your hopes, your fears and your passion. It creates connectivity.
- 36. Power of story changes lives. It offers permission to access your lives, your hopes, your fears and your passion. It creates connectivity. It changes a students life. It changes school community. And it also have the power to change a town or a city.
- 37. Power of story changes lives. It offers permission to access your lives, your hopes, your fears and your passion. It creates connectivity. It changes a students life. It changes school community. And it also have the power to change a town or a city. If we understand the power of story telling to it¡¯s simplest level then we might begin to help kids understand their place in the world.
- 38. IMAGINE YOUR HEAD TO BE A BIG WHITE POST CARD.
- 39. Give yourself 20 minutes.
- 40. Give yourself 20 minutes. Write what you think, what you feel, what you want.
- 41. Give yourself 20 minutes. Write what you think, what you feel, what you want. When we ask you to read, we all will be leaning closer and listening. We all love good stories !!
- 42. We will be saying, ¡°TELL US MORE!!¡±
- 43. Created By- Biswajit Biswas IIT(BHU), Varanasi During an Internship by Prof. Sameer Mathur IIM(Lucknow) www.IIMInternship.com