This presentation is about the power we have over our own life story and the power our life story has in changing the world.
Included:
How to transform personal and societal limiting narratives.
10 elements of great stories.
How to craft a visionary narrative
How to choose a story to tell
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Change your Story. Change the World.
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9. We need to IDENTIFY & CHANGE
the stories that are keeping us trapped
personally and systemically.
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14. WE HAVE P O W E R
OVER THE STORIES
OF OUR LIVES.
15. “We cannot think without
language, we cannot process
experience without story.”
-Christina Baldwin
16. S TO R I E S H O L D O U R I D E N T I T I E S TO G E T H E R .
17. S TO R I E S A L L O W U S TO C R E AT E
O R D E R O U T O F T H E C H A OT I C .
18. T H E Y D O T H I S B Y E D I T I N G O U T
I R R E L E V A N T D E TA I L S .
19. “Stories remain the invisible glue
through which people narrate the
meaning of their lives and inter-
weave their lives with other lives.”
-Michael Margolis, Believe Me.
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23. Name limiting narrative and the belief that’s in that story.
Cost of that belief. Consequence of that story.
How could it be instead?
What would that alternative look like? Compelling vision of
alternate reality.
T R A N S F O R M I N G P E R S O N A L
A N D S O C I E TA L S TO R I E S :
24. B E L I E V I N G Y O U C A N C H A N G E
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B E L I E V I N G T H E W O R L D C A N C H A N G E .
25. S TO R Y
-Event Unity
-The ‘who, what, when,
where, how’ of an event
that occured
-It has a begining, middle,
and end
N A R R AT I V E
-A system of stories: Two or
more stories that add up to
create a larger narrative
-Narrative: What do these
stories tell us about how the
world is?
-Open ended
V S
26. “The ability to dream up and spread
these solutions lives or dies on the
ability to tell great stories that inspire
people to think differently.”
-Jonah Sachs, Story Wars
27. N E W N A R R AT I V E F R A M E
D E L I V E R E D T H R O U G H P E R S O N A L S TO R I E S
=T H E B E S T W AY TO A W A K E N T H E W O R L D
28. Each character pursues some type
of goal in accordance with his or her
values, facing difficulty along the way
and either succeeds of fails according
to the storyteller’s view of how the
world works.
29. Stories are designed to persuade an
audience of a storyteller’s worldview.
How do they do this?
Stories express values.
30. T E N E L E M E N T S O F
G R E AT S TO R I E S
41. H O W T H I N G S U S E D TO B E :
“Once upon a time, there was _________.
Every day, ___________.”
42. T H E A C T I O N T H AT W I L L C H A N G E T H I N G S :
“One day, _________.
Because of that, ___________.
Because of that, ___________.”
43. T H E C H A N G E :
“_______________________.”
44. T H E B E G I N N I N G O F Y O U R S TO R Y
The hook: set the stage and introduce who, what,
when and where.
45. P R E S E N T Y O U R P R O B L E M
Set up what the character wants, so the listener
wonders how they will get it.
46. J O U R N E Y TO C H A N G E
Struggle of the journey makes the
character change.
47. T H E M O M E N T O F C H A N G E
The “A-Ha! Moment”.
48. F U T U R E
State what the future looks like for the
protagonist. Relate the moral of the
story back to the audience.
49. P I C K I N G A S TO R Y
Start with the end in mind
Audience
Choose the story that will get them to
take that action
Goal
(the action you want them to take)
50. Think about the shift in perspective
you want the audience to have.
Do you have a story of when you had
that shift in perspective yourself?
51. Q U E S T I O N S TO A S K
W H E N C H O O S I N G A S TO R Y:
Who is my audience?
What action do I want them to take?
What ‘A-ha! moment’ can I facilitate to get them to take
that action? What do they need to realize in order to
take that action?
52. C R E AT E
A W A R E N E S S
I N F L U E N C E
B E H A V I O R
C H A N G E AT T I T U D E S
53. H O W TO C R A F T A V I S I O N A R Y N A R R AT I V E
1. HOOK: A brief glimpse into what’s possible
2. Define the status quo.
3. Cost of the status quo.
4. Alternate reality.
Other Possibility.
5. How do you know this other future is possible?
6. Compelling details of the new reality.
7. How your audience is essential/needed in order for
this new future to come true.