We managed to pass the threshold. We had fifteen eight grade students in front of us, most of them boys. They were feeling uncomfortable still, shooting remarks at each other across the room. I moved forward and presented them Kevin’s two prompting requests “Tell us a story about being “boxed” in. Tell us a story [...]
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The StoryBox project – field report, Zichron Yaakov Israel, part two
Posted in Education, Narrative, Storytelling Blogs, The power of storytelling, World, storytelling, tagged Israel, Limor Shiponi, Storytalk, storytelling, The StoryBox Project, thought process, Zichron Yaakov on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who will benefit from the existence of great storytellers?
Posted in Around the World, Narrative, Storytelling Blogs, Storytelling coach, The art of storytelling, The power of storytelling, World, storytelling, tagged Storytalk, storytelling, thought process, World on March 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m pondering this question lately. Before you continue reading it is important to emphasize – this post is an attempt to raise an honest discussion, without excluding anyone, without passing judgment or classifying.
The word ’storytelling’ has become common. It is used by many to describe what they do – storytellers. Who? This is a very [...]
Powerful Storytelling
Posted in Digital, Narrative, The power of storytelling, World, tagged storytelling, World on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Proverb generated stories
Posted in Coaching, Education, Entertainment, Narrative, The art of storytelling on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new excercise on Storytelling Coach.
Storytelling, engineering, decision making and teams
Posted in Around the World, Business, Coaching, Education, Fantasy, Multimedia, Narrative, Politics, The art of storytelling, The power of storytelling, Virtual worlds, World, gaming, storytelling, storytelling in organizations, tagged decision making, engineering, learning, simulation, The Quest Master, thought process on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Quest Master I’ve attached a new article written for a presentation in an upcoming conference – the 15th industrial engineering and management conference, Tel Aviv. Except from the description of the idea and facility I’m suggesting a glance into a storyteller’s brain trying to put the complicated wiring into simpler words. Hope it will make sense to the readers [...]
Games and Storytelling series – the elements of Storytelling Part two
Posted in Digital, Entertainment, Media, Multimedia, Narrative, The power of storytelling, Virtual worlds, gaming, storytelling on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last time I wrote about Story, Storyteller and Audience. Let’s continue…
Narrative – big word with many meanings attached to it. For me it represents everything which is part of the world of the storytelling act. Bits of information, some of them big some small, which present part of the world all this happens in. Things [...]
The Story Telling Company Inc.
Posted in Around the World, Business, Coaching, Education, Multimedia, Narrative, Storytelling Blogs, The art of storytelling, World, gaming, storytelling, storytelling in organizations on January 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A new company is born. What is special about it? It’s about storytelling – the ancient art and it’s modern reincarnations. The second thing special about it - it’s been founded as a start-up.Who are we? you’ll find out rather soon but what I can tell you now is that the team is an assembly of storytellers. [...]
About place, characters and interaction
Posted in Coaching, Fantasy, Narrative, Storytelling Blogs, The art of storytelling, gaming, storytelling, tagged Coaching, storytelling, World on January 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A new post on ’storytelling coach’ page. Enjoy!
Games and Storytelling series overture
Posted in Digital, Entertainment, Media, Multimedia, Narrative, The art of storytelling, Virtual worlds, gaming, storytelling on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been tracking the games and storytelling issue on the web and on other resources for a while now. Games as in video games, virtual worlds, board games, games. So let me open with a modest statement – games are not a form of storytelling. Yes, I know many readers will not like this but [...]
