1. Lee-Sean Huang / ls@foossa.com / @leesean
Transformative Storytelling
From Data to Delivery
ABC & the Elephant
New York Association for Volunteer Administration
Lee-Sean Huang - ls@foossa.com
November 2015
FOOSSA @foossa_com / @leesean
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Lee-Sean Huang / ls@foossa.com / @leesean
Lee Sean
@leeseanFOOSSA @foossa_com / @leesean
4. @leeseanFOOSSA
Why are you here today?
Why are you here today?
Why are you here today?
Why are you here today?
Why are you here today?
@foossa_com / @leesean
7. @leeseanFOOSSA
“The #1 business skills for the next 5 years”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130802112108-7374576-this-will-be-the-1-business-skill-of-the-next-5-years
- LinkedIn
“A strategic tool with ‘irresistible power’”
https://hbr.org/2014/03/the-irresistible-power-of-storytelling-as-a-strategic-business-tool/
- Harvard Business Review
“The major business lesson of 2014”
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239142
- Entrepreneur Magazine
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8. Stories
help us make sense of the world
help us define our identity
help us connect with each other
are the building blocks of culture
{http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/the-power-stories/direct-hit
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9. http://www.journeyofhearts.org/kirstimd/tellstory.htmLee-Sean Huang / ls@foossa.com / @leesean
Clay Shirky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyeihMTB2mE feature=share t=19m35s
“Stories organize our sense of reality.
Stories are how we process facts.
Stories are like food we consume that
helps us turn into who we are.”
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10. Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer
http://www.journeyofhearts.org/kirstimd/tellstory.htm
“Storytelling is a part of life, intrinsic
to most cultures. They help people
make sense of the world--life's
experiences, dilemmas and hardships.
Stories can educate, inspire and build
rapport. They are a means of
communicating, recreating, and
helping preserve cultures by
translating memories into a more
concrete manner that can be handed
down verbally or in written form.
Telling the story can provide the
opportunity to gain a deeper
understanding of one's experiences
and oneself. “
http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/the-power-stories/direct-hit
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http://www.journeyofhearts.org/kirstimd/tellstory.htm
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11. @leeseanFOOSSA
“Storytelling comes naturally
to humans, but since we live
in an unnatural world, we
sometimes need a little help
doing what we’d naturally do.”
- Dan Harmon, Writer
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12. @leeseanFOOSSA
What is the story behind
an artifact you have?
Jewelry, clothing, photo,
item in pocket/purse, etc.
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Action - Benefits - Champions
Your mission in action
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Action - Benefits - Champions
Who benefits from your mission?
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Action - Benefits - Champions
Who makes your work happen?
40. Lee-Sean Huang / ls@foossa.com / @leesean@leeseanFOOSSA @foossa_com / @leesean
+ Impact
Call to Action: how can we help?
Provide a full capoeira uniform
for a student on scholarship
$50
Sponsor capoeira classes for a
month for a student on
scholarship
$100
Sponsor capoeira classes for a
semester for a student on
scholarship
$500
Provide capoeira classes for a
school year for a student on
scholarship
$1,000
Enable 2 teaching artists to
provide 1 semester of classes at
a school
$10,000
Underwrite 2 teaching artists to
provide 1 year of classes at a
school
$25,000
58. The Inzovu Curve maps a
prototypical journey of a
person going through the
transformative experience of
a museum reaching a state of
motivation and action.
62. MAPPING THE JOURNEY TO ACTION
PAIN PAIN ACTION
At the beginning
there’s a neutral state
before being slowly
introduced to the
context.
If the beginning is too
brutal, people could
feel disoriented and
unable to establish
an emotional
connection.
63. MAPPING THE JOURNEY TO ACTION
PAIN PAIN ACTION
A genocide memorial
is meant to trigger a
profound personal
reaction.
This is a moment of
suffering and creates
a strong emotional
connection to what
happened.
At the beginning
there’s a neutral state
before being slowly
introduced to the
context.
If the beginning is too
brutal, people could
feel disoriented and
unable to establish
an emotional
connection.
64. MAPPING THE JOURNEY TO ACTION
PAIN PAIN ACTION
A genocide memorial
is meant to trigger a
profound personal
reaction.
This is a moment of
suffering and creates
a strong emotional
connection to what
happened.
At the beginning
there’s a neutral state
before being slowly
introduced to the
context.
If the beginning is too
brutal, people could
feel disoriented and
unable to establish
an emotional
connection.
This moment should
happen multiple times
during the experience
itself.
It’s meant as a way to
decompress for
sensible people, and a
space to
think for everyone.
65. MAPPING THE JOURNEY TO ACTION
PAIN PAIN ACTION
A genocide memorial
is meant to trigger a
profound personal
reaction.
This is a moment of
suffering and creates
a strong emotional
connection to what
happened.
At the beginning
there’s a neutral state
before being slowly
introduced to the
context.
If the beginning is too
brutal, people could
feel disoriented and
unable to establish
an emotional
connection.
This moment should
happen multiple times
during the experience
itself.
It’s meant as a way to
decompress for
sensible people, and a
space to
think for everyone.
While genocides are
terrible events, there
are always heroes
that shine through.
These people are
often highly relatable
because are normal
people that do
positive acts.
66. MAPPING THE JOURNEY TO ACTION
PAIN PAIN ACTION
A genocide memorial
is meant to trigger a
profound personal
reaction.
This is a moment of
suffering and creates
a strong emotional
connection to what
happened.
While it’s difficult to
generate action in
each and every
person, this moment
is made possible by
the ones before.
Hope gives examples
to follow and show
how others acted
positively.
At the beginning
there’s a neutral state
before being slowly
introduced to the
context.
If the beginning is too
brutal, people could
feel disoriented and
unable to establish
an emotional
connection.
This moment should
happen multiple times
during the experience
itself.
It’s meant as a way to
decompress for
sensible people, and a
space to
think for everyone.
While genocides are
terrible events, there
are always heroes
that shine through.
These people are
often highly relatable
because are normal
people that do
positive acts.
68. 68
How do you want visitors
to tell your story?
WE ASKED GENOCIDE SURVIVORS AND AEGIS / KGM STAFF
69. 69
“The people of Rwanda died
but the struggle for the spirit
of a dignified and peaceful country
is now promoted, sustained, encouraged.”
SURVIVOR
76. PAVILION &
REFLECTION GARDEN
Give Survivors a
dedicated place for
remembrance and
reflection. A private space
for fellowship and a place
to share messages of
hope and love.
77. COUNSELING &
SUPPORT SYSTEM
AND INTEGRATED
FACILITIES
The Counseling Support
Program will provide Survivors
with much needed services
and facilities necessary for
continued recovery and
guidance.
78. REST POD
A private space that provides
grief recovery, comfort and
respite for those Survivors
overcome by the emotional
strains of their visit.
81. EXPERIMENTS
ANATOMY OF AN EXPERIMENT
EVOLVING THE KGM EXPERIENCE 81
1. HYPOTHESIS
• A hypothesis is a question
and a possible idea for
solving that question.
• “What if we changed X to
improve Y?”
2. TEST
• What are metrics for
success?
• Test the hypothesis for a
set period of time. One
week, one month.
• Observe what happens and
gather data.
3. EVALUATE
• What worked? What didn’t?
• What should we start
doing?
• What should we continuing
doing?
• What should we stop
doing?
4. ITERATE
• How can we refine the
hypothesis?
• What happens if we try
something different?
86. Dear Friend,
We are all angered by what happened in Rwanda, but we can channel our energy into
action and prevent it from ever happening again.
Be heroic. Help save lives by taking action. Injustice happens around the world. The
Central African Republic has been descending into ethno-religious violence, with thousands
of people fleeing their homes. The UN is warning that the country is at high risk of genocide.
Learn how you can raise awareness about this issue. Volunteer to spread the word in your
community, on campus, or at events.
Be a partner. Pledge your support and helps us fund our life sustaining social programs,
youth and teacher education programs and commemoration work. Our youth programs teach
the new generation about Rwanda’s history and how to move forward in peace and unity.
Be a resident artist. Create work to tell the story of Rwanda through artistic expression.
Visit our website at www.globalumuganda.com/toolkit to learn more.
Together we can build and sustain peace.
Amahoro,
The Aegis Trust team
94. Lee-Sean Huang / ls@foossa.com / @leesean
Transformative Storytelling
From Data to Delivery
ABC & the Elephant
New York Association for Volunteer Administration
Lee-Sean Huang - ls@foossa.com
November 2015
FOOSSA @foossa_com / @leesean