Serving ‘bread and amusements storytelling’
‘Bread and amusements’ eventually enslaved the Romans to their barbarian invaders. ‘Bread and amusements storytelling’ can eventually enslave users to their brain invaders. I’m not telling you a new...
View ArticleIf story is X, storytelling is telling X, right?
Now, this post can get so philosophical it can loose contact so I’m going step by step with my arguments. The simple thought would be – if story is X storytelling is telling X. Along this line of...
View ArticleAvatar and the story in storytelling
No, haven’t seen Avatar yet. I will, I want to. Just mentioning it because it creates a perfect example for what I intended to write about in this post – story in storytelling. Going back to an earlier...
View ArticleTime to say bye-bye to the famous elevator speech
Observing many narratives for quite a while now, not much good has come out of those speeches, although I’m sure there are people who will swear by them. Sorry, the next time you meet me, save it for...
View ArticleMusic and Storytelling
Cleaning my Outlook I found an email from over a year ago sent to me by a colleague. It had a link in it and a short message “I think you will find this interesting”. Here is what I got … Continue...
View ArticleStorytelling feminine sufferings
Just had this thought that storytelling is a living feminine entity. Think about it. What triggered this thought was working around issues of the feminine and observing disorders created in a...
View ArticleSeeking mastery in Storytelling
Mastery is an ambiguous word raising the impulse of ownership and recognition, resonating something standing apart while representing a form of wholeness. What is it about mastery and mastery in...
View ArticleWhat I think about all the blah blah around the evolution of Storytelling
To tell you the truth, I think most people never really figured out what storytelling is made of and how it works. On a deeper level, I think many people have never heard good storytelling. This comes...
View ArticleAdagio 2000 by Garry Bardin
Not long ago I led a workshop at the Open University over here. The participants are lecturers working with students in many knowledge fields, one of them teaches strategy. He asked me if I have a...
View ArticleHamas ‘storytelling’
This post is not for the politically correct soul and not for those who insist on wearing earplugs or pink sunglasses. This is about the people who are so concerned about their own pleasures that they...
View ArticleHamas ‘storytelling’ continued
Previous part So what seems to be the dramatic peak has happened. You know that by now. As usual in Hamas ‘storytelling’ something ‘went wrong in the dark’ and it’s always the antagonist to blame....
View ArticleTo Derek Graham and the people on Rachel Corrie – a letter from the heart
I’m an Israeli citizen sitting at home and watching you coming close like many others around the world. Before they get what they are waiting for, before the drama starts, before they hold on to their...
View ArticleThe Art of Storytelling Show – space for discussion
Hi, I hope you’ve listened to the show on Brother Wolf’s blog and here I invite you to comment, argue, question or anything else, just jump in. Thanks Eric, it is a pleasure and eventually worked out...
View ArticleGaza Tel-Aviv Olympic Games 2020
The video contains the potential of a story not yet told. We believe it is possible. The more people who will support this idea, the more likely it is to happen. It has not yet been decided who will...
View ArticleFragments of Terboyo: The Mighty One.
Fragments of Terboyo: The Mighty One.. This story was translated for me to read by Arif, the owner of corat coret blog which usually writes in Bahasa Indonesia. The differences between languages...
View ArticleThe voice of a storyteller
“…once upon a time…” can you hear it even if no one speaks a word? Can you imagine those words’ effect like a tiny inner innocent shine joined by a sense of horror? I just love it. If I could …...
View ArticleBest tips for storytelling in branding and marketing?
After reading a lot of stuff about this issue I still have a question: what should one know? Many people use terms like narrative, story, storytelling, engagement, eliciting emotions, conversation...
View ArticleBeyond the Border Wales International Storytelling Festival
Whewww… work grabbed me away from this space for quite a while, but I’ll have to go back a month and tell you a little about the festival. I’m not going to write about the program, just about the...
View ArticleStorylistening and the ability to review performance
This year, my youngest daughter joined the trip to Beyond the Border storytelling festival. She is the youngest of three, almost 18 and her age is the age of my storytelling career. She attended my...
View ArticleStorytelling critique
This post follows the previous one – Storylistening and the ability to review performance. There it was mainly about my daughter’s thoughts, some remarks made by me and comments by other storytellers....
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