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Story Craft: Making Better Stories

You know good storytellers when you see them - but they are not all the same. What makes them good? How can you use your presence, power, and voice in service of telling your story?

Storytelling is about structure, but its more than that.

• Your presence in the room holds the container for the conversation.
• Your ability to listen lets you aim the conversation, avoid wandering, and bring everyone along to the same focal point.
• Your voice creates engagement and the emotional impact that influences others to action.
• Your power makes all the difference between dragging everyone through a muddy and rudderless discussion and holding a clear and compelling line for the audience to hear and understand.

Finding Your Storyteller will help you find your own storytelling style. Knowing your style lets you be comfortable and get your point across in a way that people hear and respond. You will also learn how to take control and aim the conversation when it gets uncomfortable in a way that is in service to everyone involved.

Supporting Content and Pre-work

This class is about where you meet storytelling. Together, you and stories combine for impact. Here are a few videos to get you thinking and practicing your journey to fining your storyteller.

Getting ready for your Storyteller TRIBE class? Watch these first:

• A Short lesson on Stories people like
• Clues to a great story
• Your body language shapes who you are (and how you tell a story)
• Power and Influence (is not what you say)

Next Up

We'll see you in our Toronto Space for the first iteration of Finding your Storyteller.

When you're done, you can give us feedback and made suggestion on how to make this class more useful to you on a link coming soon.

Next up? Bay Area in December. Check the main TRIBE Wiki for the sign up.

Trainers

• Dia Bondi- Head of Knowledge Cultivation working from the SF office. You can find her on Mozillians.org
• Rich Cox- Applied Improv, Innovation and Design Thinking, Coach and Leadership Communication expert. You can find him on Mozillians.org.

Future Facilitators:

• Matej Novak- Copy creator for Mozilla. Works in the Toronto space. Dedicated to telling the right story. He works on "words, words, words". You can find him on the Mozilla Phonebook.