Creativity comes from a place, and we get to participate in it. Storyjamming provides a style of play and some techniques for engaging the creativity in a place, and ultimately regenerating the kind of rich oral tradition that creates the kind of kinship, rooted in a particular place, that can help us become native.

1. Storyjamming
Tips & Techniques for
Regenerating Oral Tradition

2. Where does
creativity come
from?

3. The mind is embodied, not just embrained.
Neuroscientist Antonio D’amasio

4. It may be far more parsimonious, today, to
suggest that mind is not at all a human
possession, but is rather a property of the
earthly biosphere—a property in which we,
along with the other animals and the plants,
all participate.
David Abram, “The Air Aware,” Orion Magazine, Sep/Oct 2009

5. Creativity comes
from a place...

6. ...and we get to
participate in it!

7. I am interested in the way that a man looks
at a given landscape and takes possession of
it in his blood and brain.
Scott Momaday, The Man Made of Words

8. What does Australia
look like?

9. The Mighty Thor!

10. [Viola Spolin] saw how these kids who
could not get along on the street, who could
not communicate, who could not connect
with one another, who could not find the
means to see the worth of one another as
individuals would all of a sudden get it
together around the playing of games.
Mike Bonifer

11. When we Story-jam, we share the same vivid
waking Dream.
Willem Larsen

12. Play!

13. Yes, and!

14. I’m gonna make you
look awesome.

15. Be a little boring.

16. Warm up and cool
down whenever
you exercise.

17. Polaris

18. A Penny For
My Thoughts

19. Primetime
Adventures

20. In a Wicked Age

21. Mouse Guard

22. The Fifth World

23. Storyjamming can
save the world.

24. Play!