The Heart of Biddeford Storytelling Workshop, Match 9 2009
March 9 Workshop Planning the Heart and Soul Storytelling Project
AGENDA TOPICS
HOUR ONE
1. Introductions: Nametags, An Exercise in Describing Biddeford (Write your name and five words you would have to use to describe the heart of Biddeford)
2. Agenda Overview
4. Looking at the Project as a Whole
5. Heart & Soul Goals: a Review
6. Understanding the Community
7. Balancing the Past, Present and Future
HOUR TWO
9. Story Kinds and Their Impact
10. Exercise B
13. Exercise C: Harvest Values from the Stories Told in Exercise B (Value Mapping)
14. Then What?
HOUR THREE
15. Assessment: Ongoing touch points--how will we recognize success aloong the way? How do we avoid vounteer burn-out?
16. Mapping
17. Exercise D: Mapping the Community
HOUR FOUR
18. Putting the Pieces Together: A Plan
19. Final Exercise (Look at the words you wrote on your nametag. Change three of them. Everyone read the old and then the new words aloud. Observation?--The changes illustrated the building of common ground, of moving from personal image to community value, from concrete noun to action verb or abstract noun demoting a feeling or a value. So interesting.)
More inspirations:
"Storytelling is central to the well-being, the confidence and sustainability of communities. It allows communities to generate and sustain a sense of belonging and cohesion and purpose even through periods of tumultuous change--especially through periods of tumultuous change. It allows them to constantly define who they are and who they want to be." K. Longley, 2002, Stories for Sustainability, Sustainability Forum, Perth
II. Digital Explorations and Barbara Ganley, A Quick Summary
To read more, go to bgblogging
Some influences:
The Center for Digital Storytelling
Original Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngdoo/270155863