March 9 Workshop Planning the Heart and Soul Storytelling Project
AGENDA TOPICS
HOUR ONE
1. Introductions: Nametags, An Exercise in Describing Biddeford (Write your name and five words you would have to use to describe the heart of Biddeford)
2. Agenda Overview
4. Looking at the Project as a Whole
5. Heart & Soul Goals: a Review
6. Understanding the Community
7. Balancing the Past, Present and Future
HOUR TWO
9. Story Kinds and Their Impact
10. Exercise B Collaborative Drawing
13. Exercise C: Harvest Values from the Stories Told in Exercise B (Value Mapping)
14. Then What?
HOUR THREE
15. Assessment:Ongoing touch points--how will we recognize success aloong the way? How do we avoid vounteer burn-out?
16. Mapping
17. Exercise D: Mapping the Community
HOUR FOUR
18. Putting the Pieces Together: A Plan
19. Final Exercise (Look at the words you wrote on your nametag. Change three of them. Everyone read the old and then the new words aloud. Observation?--The changes illustrated the building of common ground, of moving from personal image to community value, from concrete noun to action verb or abstract noun demoting a feeling or a value. So interesting.)
