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Storytelling

Insights, tips & tools from 30+ years of award-winning storytelling work.

Story Intel: The Scooby Doo Strategy

Story Intel: The Scooby Doo Strategy

Last week, I ran a conference session in Whistler for international educators at BCCIE on Story Intel – New Strategies for Academic Innovation. I designed the hands-on session to help attendees discover how intentionally collecting and analyzing stories about a specific topic can quickly generate rich intel that adds a human-centred

Sea to Sky StoryStorm

Sea to Sky StoryStorm

I love a good challenge. I’m also passionate about working with story and interesting people. And I think the Sea to Sky Corridor in BC is one of the most wonderous places on earth. So when Cheeying Ho, Executive Director of the Whistler Centre for Sustainability, asked me to

Climate Smart Office Smarts

Climate Smart Office Smarts

“Just by re-setting all our thermostats, we saved 2-4000 kilowatt hours per month”, Natasha told her audience. “The savings were there waiting for us – we just needed help to find them.” On Tuesday morning, she and 30 other Climate Smart members gathered at an alumni breakfast in downtown Vancouver. They

Want to improve your story skills? Write less.

Want to improve your story skills? Write less.

When I was at BiF8, the kind folks at SYPartners gave us all a prototype deck of cards to test out, as a way to help us each identify our unique “superpower”. (Superpowers are all the rage, BTW). According to the cards, mine is “distillation”. I’m not sure I’