People often ask me why I love history - I said that History is the same as Theatre.  It is all about telling a story.  This is what part of the arts is all about.  Telling a story and making connections.  Often students take the Arts as a " easier" optoption or because parent's don't see the value of it.   Daniel Pink highlights the importance of the story.  It also makes me think about what we have all lost in the drive for money and so called success.

P102 – Joesph Campbell – 1949 – book The Hero with a thousand Faces – all myths – across time and culture – contain the basic ingredients and follow the same recipes – there are no new stories – just the same stories retold

Hero’s journey – Departure – hears the call refuses and then accepts crosses into a new world, Initiation – faces still challenges – gets a mentor – be transforms and return – master of two worlds

Robert McKee – book – Story: Substance, structure, Style and principles of screenwriting

Advertising – story writing – big business

P 106 Steve Denning – World Bank story – story telling doesn’t replace analytical thinking – it supplements it by enabling us to imagine new perspectives and new worlds  - abstract analysis is easier to understand when told through the lens of a well chosen story

P 106 – Richard Olivier – “ Mythodrama” – his clients read Shakespeare to elicit lessons in leadership and corporate governance

P107 - Alan Kay -  “ We are all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us a story”

Enable to distinguish goods and services in the market place – marketing – house sales; wine sales

Narrative medicine – stories – that is how people make sense of what is happening to them when they are sick

P112 – Barry Lopez – Arctic Dreams – if stories come to you, care for them.  And learn to give them away where they are needed.  Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

P117 – mini Sagas – 50 words beginning, middle and end

www.storycorps.net   www.storycentre.org Australian national Storytelling confest; www.dstory.com; www.lanes.org


P122 – Story is an ancient art – but like all art it can be enhances with modern tools


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