Telling stories

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Telling stories

• In one minute

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Good stories have -

• Purpose, they -
• Instruct
• Inspire
• Inform
• A person
• This is a story about
• Let me tell you about
• It started when

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Stories have -

• A beginning
• Introduces the person and the issue
• A middle
• What happened,
• What did people do to address the issue
• An end
• The outcome

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Getting started

• Get into groups of 4
• See who has thought of a story
• Each of you will have 1 minute to tell your story
  to the other 3 people.
• Then all of you have 1 minute to discuss the
  story
• And then it is the next persons turn

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Each group, after each story, gently asks -

• How did the story
• Instruct
• Inspire
• Inform
• Did it have a good beginning, middle and end?
• Was there a person, with a name, in the story?
• Did the story teller use ordinary language or was
  there human service language?

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Sharing with the larger group

• Each group, please pick the story that you would
  like to share
• Someone other than the original story teller
  should tell the story pick that person
• New story teller take a minute to make sure you
  can tell the beginning, middle, and the end

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Which stories do you remember and why -

• What makes a story stick?