storytelling – PlaceMakers

Storytelling Part II: Getting to Getting Things Done

By PlaceMakers | November 29, 2017 |

First a review: In a post last month, I made a pitch for organizing community storytelling around getting stuff done. I acknowledged how hard it is to do that in the current political environment, which is increasingly an arena of competing tribal identities and mutually exclusive convictions: A community that has struggled to identify and…

Plotting a Persuasive Story? Better have a happily ever after

By PlaceMakers | October 17, 2017 |

On my PlaceMakers business card, my job title is “Storyteller.” I figured a graduate degree in English and a two-decade career in journalism gave me a certain amount of credibility in that department. What I didn’t count on, however, was what the title seemed to imply to most folks. To them, I was the spin…