Heart and Soul Storytelling Workshop Agenda

Pre-workshop Preparation

Reading:

• One-page Overview of Storytelling and Land-use Planning

• Explore sheet of links about the role of storytelling in community action

Writing/Gathering:

• Story Preparation Assignment

Friday

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Introduction

Exercise One: Object Stories

Taking the plunge by telling one-minute stories based on the object brought to the workshop and its relationship to our connection to the town

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Presentation/Conversation on the Role of Storytelling in H & S

Topics:

* Considering the larger context of the role stories and storytelling can play in community engagement/participatory action efforts around land use

* Integrating storytelling into the two-year H & S process (cycles or waves of stories, moving from past-based to present to future stories)

* Narrowing the thematic focus: What kinds of stories do we need to hear?

* Being inclusive and honoring the spectrum of voices while achieving results

* Taking A Tour of Media Options: Print-based, conversation-based, audio capture, image-based and multimedia

* Exploring guidelines for capturing, sharing and using stories (permissions, sensitivity issues)

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Telling One’s Own Story about Place/Land Use

Exercise Two: Sharing story drafts/Learning to facilitate oral storytelling events

6:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Break

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Catching Other People’s Stories about Place, Part One

Exercise Three: Asking good questions, getting great answer

Exercise Four: Recording the interview

Saturday

*Note: I have revised this agenda based on the answers to the survey.

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Exercise Five: Editing the Audio Story

9:00– 9:20 a.m.

Presentation/Demonstration: Telling a Land-use Story through Multiple Media

Audio/Image or Text/Image

9:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Exercise Six: Creating a Two-media Story as Argument

11:00- noon

Discussion

Planning for participation, waves of storytelling, and land-use action

Conclusion