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George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, Storytelling & Activism Symposium 2015
Getting our stories on the map
Stories as Constructed Objects
“Happenings become experiences when they are digested, when they are reflected on,related to general patterns, and synthesized.” Saul Alinsky (1971)
Stories as Codes– Problem Posing What is happening in
this story?
Why is it happening?
How can we relate to it?
What can we do
about it?
Peer Education – Voter Education
“I see that if I don’t vote, then other people are going to keep on making decisions for me. This gives me a chance to have a say in who’s going to be making those decisions.”Participant in Better Questions, Better Decisions Workshop
Stories as Tools for Change
“It (stories) can even teach, conserve memory, or alter the past.” Jerome Bruner, Acts of Meaning, 1990
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