Morning Exercise

When I start a workshop, I often start with morning exercise.
In a circle, max. 250 people, needs an equal number.

1. 2 and 2. Tell about this morning.
2. Get feed back from listener.
a. Clarest Picture in story
b. Say something about the way the story was told.

You can extrapolate the exercise, so you let participants turn around and then retell the story they just heard. Now with power, (some say lie, I never use that word!) and let the stories flow.
Same feed back + what was the story about?

End: Let the participants turn back to first partner and retell what they just heard, now like a tale. A king, a princess, a troll, a dragon - whatever make a good fairy tale.

I have used this exercise for years and it never fails.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

At give respons på en historie

Et menneske fortæller en historie til et andet menneske. Lytteren bliver ikke helt fanget, historien er for lang, det er ikke helt til at finde ud af, hvorfor lytteren skal høre den historie lige nu, fortælleren bliver i tvivl undervejs og ledes på afveje. Når historien er slut, er det sin sag at påpege de fejl og mangler, der var ved historien. Mange oplever det meget personligt og sårende at få respons på en fortalt historie. Derfor er det vigtigt at give folk redskaber til respons. I min bog, "Fortæl en historie" angiver jeg en måde, hvorpå en sådan respons kan gives: 1. angiv det klareste billede. 2. fortæl om en ting ved fortælleren, som du godt kunne lide 3. fortæl hvad du lærte af historien 4. giv et godt råd til fortællerens måde at fortælle historien på 5. giv et godt råd til hvordan historiens effekt kan blive bedre Jeg har brugt metoden, bl.a. på Ollerup-kurset i foråret. Den har fungeret OK, men ikke optimalt. Der er noget med opdelingen i positiv (de tre første)
Read more

Storytelling is a modern thing - internet and the rest is so oldfashion

Two-Way Communication Imagine a group of managers discussing what to do about communication. One says: “Why don´t we try with storytelling?” and starts explain that stories can make complex messages understandable. The other managers are sceptical. They don´t understand, it sounds a little strange and very modern. The managers are right. Storytelling (oral!) is strange and very modern. Old fashion medias - books, Radio, TV, Movies and in many ways also the Internet (even though it is a more active from of communication it is still based on dead computers) - have one thing in common: They are based on one way communication. So in one sense it gives meaning to say that they don´t really care about you. You can fall in love, you can change your life, you can spend your time eating water melon or fish budding, you can die - they don´t care, because they can´t feel you. It is the same with power point presentations: The speaker doesn´t really care about you. The whole set up is finis
Read more