WWS
These posts are about Working with Stories, the textbook (series) I started working on in 2008.
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Eight observations – 4th – making
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) (And then, in the fourth of the series of eight, this is the second in a… Read more
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Eight observations – 4th – telling
(This is the fourth in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) Let’s say you have something you want to do in the world. You want to make… Read more
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Eight observations – Leftovers from 123
These are some thoughts “left over” from the first three posts in this series of eight observations. This blog post, on ultra-compact stories and narrative waves, was included in (and revised for) Working with Stories. Look for it as the sections “Extreme compression” in Chapter 3 and (the last part of) “Ecological and narrative cycles”… Read more
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Eight observations – 3rd
(This is the third in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) This blog post, on how stories run in cycles, was included in (and revised for) Working… Read more
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Eight observations – 2nd
(This is the second in a series of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. See the first post for more information about the origin of the “eight things.”) This blog post, on how stories have stories, was included in (and revised for) Working with… Read more
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Eight observations – 1st
Several years ago I gave a presentation made up of eight observations about stories and storytelling in groups, and about helping people tell and work with stories. These were not scientific findings; they were just things I had encountered that had surprised me and that gave me food for thought. (Nor were they original thoughts,… Read more