#152 – How to Have a Magical Season
AKA The man that made me cry in a workshop
This is Adventures in Storytelling your weekly note with resources, insights, and actionable tools for better communication through storytelling. Heavy on the insight this week. Enjoy.
As summer fades to crisp air and warm reds and yellow of fall (reluctantly here in Toronto) I have a simple message for you this week: share your stories. Be vulnerable and generous with them and never forget they are a piece of magic you offer the world.
I facilitated a storytelling workshop last week and one of my warm up exercises was to have each person craft a short story using a framework I gave them based on an object they chose that represents them. One participant shared the story of a drafting pencil that has stayed with him throughout his career. No exaggeration, I teared up. I knew a little more about this man I’d never met before—part of his story, his tenderness, and what mattered to him. It was lovely. And made for an excellent start to the afternoon.
Do that for others with your story.
You can see the idyllic setting I was working in here.
A Story Well Told
To build on that, here is a fantastic article from the Atlantic that made the rounds of the internet a few weeks ago on kids’ friendships and what we as adults can learn from them. How they play together and what it does for them and could do for us.
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