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Storytelling group working together to tell a story with a poem.
Posted: September 3rd, 2009 Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman
On Sept. 1 more than 30 community members gathered in Freedom Park's Mahlon Adams Center to learn how to become better storytellers.
The group, lead by Gita Gulati-Partee and Evangeline Weiss of OpenSource Leadership Strategies of Durham, focused on three goals:
* Community Building: Learning how to engage people across lines of difference
* Exploring creative options – like poetry and art – as storytelling methods
* Contributing: Adding their vision, their story, to the community
Why teach storytelling? Gulati-Partee says storytelling is important because it is a way to deepen connections and relationships.
Stories can be told at work, within teams, at home and as part of daily correspondence. They can be told to share an experience, solve a problem or offer guidance.
"They don't always have to be happy stories, either," added Weiss.
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