1. Storytelling "Story" is a universal mirror that shows us the truth about ourselves--who and why we are. Norma Livo and Sandra Rietz, Storytelling: Process and Practice

2. Universal Mirror Livo and Rietz We see daily routine and mundane circumstance transformed into something profound "Story" takes the ordinary and binds it into all of human existence, revealing the significance of the trivial.

3. Universal Mirror Livo and Rietz Through "story" we can transcend the experience of daily living and know ourselves as more enduring than the little occurrences than mark our individual existences. Inside "story" we can accept pain,find justice, and experience exaltation.

4. Universal Mirror Livo and Rietz Inside"story" we can recognize and understand our own motivations, because we are the people in the stories When we enter into "story" we find the story inside ourselves. "Story" defines humanity.

5. Story Structure way of presenting that is different than information, description, illustration easier to remember because structured Personal--we identify commonality of experience extended –we are part of the group provides order and meaning

6. Understanding the human need for stories. Bill Johnson http://www.storyispromise.com/ A story is a world where every character, every action, every story element has meaning and purpose. fundamentally different from life, –life offers facts and ideas that don't necessarily have a clear meaning; –events that generate emotional states that have no clear resolution – events engage the senses, but not in a meaningful, fulfilling way. –Real life, then, can be chaotic, or appear to lack a desirable purpose and meaning

7. Understanding the human need for stories. Bill Johnson http://www.storyispromise.com/ we can never predict the outcome of any action or series of actions. Most people have a need for something that assigns a desirable, discernible meaning and purpose to life. This is what a story does. A story promises its audience a dramatic journey that offers resolution and fulfillment of life-like issues, events and human needs. We organize the chaos of life

8. Who Tells First person Narrator Authority Producer

9. Should Have Timeliness Proximity Significance Conflict Prominence human interest Make clear why it is worthwhile

10. Structure Beginning--set up Middle--conflict or problem End--resolution Hero--with whom audience can identify

11. Structure Conflict-- –with a nemesis –Self –society Plot-- the series of events Theme--moral of the story Denouement--order and harmony

12. How to tell it Showing is preferable to telling Begin powerfully unfold events –reflect the plot and the theme through behavior reveal the character and conflict Keep it simple Characters unique

13. How to tell it Modulate tempo, mood Emphasize relationships Unpredictable

14. What it’s about Bill Johnson http://www.storyispromise.com/ A storyteller should to be able to perceive what a story is about at its deepest level, and how to move that to a resolution that offers fulfillment to a story's audience. Understand what about the movement of a story engages the interest, the needs of an audience. Create a dramatic movement of a story toward its fulfillment. Every element of a story works together in its characters, plot, environment and ideas to make vivid and potent a story's world.

15. What it’s about Bill Johnson http://www.storyispromise.com/ At its heart, a story must have an issue at stake that is of consequence to the story's audience. Something the members of the audience will desire to experience in a state of resolution and fulfillment. Love. Courage. Redemption. Renewal. Some issue that revolves around the aching need of humans to feel they matter, that they have a place in the world.