Storytelling & Communication
We see storytelling as a special form of communication that creates positive results and shift of view for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. Some of the outcomes of our work with clients include increased communication competency and an ability to tell stories that improve oneself as well as the whole system. This includes outcomes such as:
- Increased competence and satisfaction as a systems-thinking communicator
- Increased ability to deal with and leverage ambiguity, uncertainty and mystery
- Transformed relationships among stakeholders
- Intercultural competence
- Linear and non-linear styles of narrative
- Adaptive and resilient meaning making
- Developed trust and respect
- Enhanced sense of self, group morale and efficiency
- Increased capability for creative problem solving and creative visioning
- Committed buy-in from multiple stakeholders
- Diminished unproductive and destructive conflict, or mal-adaptive loops in communication
As part of our storytelling and communication services, we typically offer services that include:
- Storytelling 101
- Ritual Storytelling
- The Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM)
- CMM Organizational Facilitation
- Organizational and Community Visioning
- Cognitive Edge-Narrative Systems Mapping for Large-Group Process
- Dialogue facilitation and community engagement by way of a variety of modalities such as The World Cafe, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, CMM, Antenarrative Inquiry and others.
