transformation // Posts tagged as "transformation"
How to use stories to make learning stick
There is another untapped but extremely powerful way in which stories can make learning stick – not through their content, but through their structure. A story is designed to teach the hero lessons that will stick – can the same structure do the same for you and your team, client or audience?
Story Class 2.1: Stories for transformation
Once upon a time in the African Savannah there was a princess who was as beautiful as the landscape. Her eyes shone like the night stars, her hair was curly as the thorn trees and her skin as dark as the soil. She was beautiful, happy and friendly. Her father was a good king. Join the rest of the story class to learn how to harness the transformational power of story.
Story Class 1.8 – And they lived happily ever after?
Last night I talked for almost 2 hours on Skype with a Spanish PhD student who interviewed me for her thesis. She asked me how I know that the transformational shifts we noticed are lasting and did not just occur on a superficial cognitive level. How lasting is the happy ever after?
Personal Success Story Workshop – What’s your definition of success?
When I asked participants in the Personal Success Story workshop to form a continuum showing to what degree they are ready for transformation, most of them indicated that indicates they are sick of being where they are and in dire need of change. Their definition of success is transformation.
Story class 1.6 – Why Acting creates the shift that thinking can’t
There comes a point in everyone’s story, fictional or real, where a shift in perspective is crucial for successful transformation. Yet all the info and talk and thinking in the world do not bring them to the point of making that internal behavioural shift – that moment that causes them never to be the same again.
Story class 1.5 Why we miss you when you are not there
How does a facilitator respond to absenteeism? This question is crucial because life happens and you need to be adaptable. This does not mean there is no cost to all involved. I thought it may be useful for myself as well as for the participants and everyone else in similar circumstances to see why we miss absent people so much
Keep Them Safe – Introduction
Since September last year (2009) a handful of people including myself, started to dream about a mammoth project that will stretch across the entire Stellenbosch district during the Soccer World Cup. While many saw either dollar signs or red flags, we saw a great opportunity for transforming our communities...
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