The document provides tips and activities for practicing storytelling at home or in an organization. It suggests writing a six-word memoir, free-writing, and practicing interviews. It also recommends crowd-sourcing stories by collecting six-word memoirs via SMS, monitoring bus stops, or documenting local murals. Finally, it outlines how to hold a storytelling event by picking a theme, finding a venue, spreading the word, and including activities like ice-breakers and storytelling workshops.

1. Storytelling Activities
to Try at Home
http://floodlightproject.org

2. There’s never just one story.
By being deliberate about the elements of storytelling, you can
emphasize the same events in a different way to
communicate a different meaning.

3. Grow a Culture of
Storytelling in Your
Organization

4. 1. Write a six-word memoir
2. Free-write
3. Practice interviewing and audio storytelling
http://floodlightproject.org/stories/six-word-memoirs
http://oneword.com
http://bit.ly/13rI5Al

5. Crowd-Source a Story

6. 1. Collect six-word memoirs using SMS
2. Monitoring bus-stops
3. Documenting local murals
http://bit.ly/18lVjaB

7. Hold Your Own
Story-Raising

8. Whether you have
one hour, one day, or
one week…
1. Pick a theme/topic/interest area
2. Find a date and venue
3. Spread the word
4. Bring food
1. Ice-breaker / warm-up activity
2. Building skills
3. Storytelling work sessions
4. Sharing and feedback

9. Wendy Norris
wendy@tekhne.co
Jon Denzler
denzl480@gmail.com
Here to help!
http://floodlightproject.com/skills
http://floodlightproject.org/explore/?topics=36
https://github.com/PitonFoundation/atlas/wiki