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PDFS READING AND SUMMARY 8

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Week1

Introduction: Story Telling Basics and Beyond

Looking at the past decades, storytelling has been created or invented as an art form as well as a professional tool. Today, people are acting stories in radio and in theaters as well as in televisions. Further, people are also acting for business luncheons, religious firms as well as schools. Other people are currently using the art of storytelling as a technique in their variety of tasks as community organizers, lawyers, teachers, public speakers as well as other professionals. In storytelling, the initial steps are normally easy. This is because everyone in their day to day lives is engaged in an element of storytelling. However, it becomes a difficult task when storytelling is taken into a more formal context. For this reason, a professional storyteller requires information which goes beyond the basics or fundamentals of storytelling.

Performance Anxiety

There are various things that show that fear has good news. First, it is argued that half of what people consider as performance anxiety is actually useful and the other half has not correlation to reality. Second, it is argued that some long term work can be used to diminish irrational part. Further, storytelling is not a dangerous occupation and for this reason the work of a storyteller is valuable. As a storyteller, you require not resist the felling of fear. It is argued that this feeling of fear may belong in your performance.

Part 1: A Communication Approach to Storytelling

It is argued that narrative becomes an important site of study as well as communication once the audiences congregate around storytellers. Since the storytelling is embedded in our day to day lives of both ordinary as well as extraordinary people, this art of living flourish. Storytelling is where people make sense of their life experiences, interact with each other, claim identities, as well as engage in cultural dialogue and conversations. Here, narrative of storytelling is made perfect everywhere. In business, for instance, advertisers or marketers tell stories concerning their stock or products.

Week 2

Power Active

This PDF talks about the conversation that General Eisenhower had with Winston Churchill in 1904.in this case, Eisenhower requested Churchill to consider looking over a speech that he had written. Churchill went through the speech as commented that the speech was a Dwight one in that it had too many zeds and to many passives. Here the aspect of passiveness is talked about. It is held that when liberty is given to buy a bit of temporal safety, then neither safety nor liberty is desired. Further, liberty can only be rewarded to those people who actually deserve it. These are the people who have worked hard to attain it.

Chapter 6

The recent scholarship in the aspect of identity development of college student has started to focus on the complexities of relationships among three basic domains of development. These include cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal relationships. There are also relationships between social identities and personal identities. This model of looking at the types of relationships this way does not look into the aspect of other domains like cognitive development. As such, Abes and Jones (2004) applied the model of multiple dimensions of identity development while studying the issue of identity development of lesbians. The authors applied a more complex conceptualization of the theory which looks at various dimensions of identity which looks into consideration the aspect of integrating intersecting domains of development.

Week 3

Power Pause

Here, all those people who aspire to become leaders, looks are a prime asset that needs to be considered. It is observed that the first president of Mexico to have elected democratically, Benito Juarez, was a bit less than five feet and was also literary ugly. This president is also described as the one who looked like a toad. That is, he was literary ugly personality who many would have guessed may make it to occupy the office of president. However, Benito was able to overcome all the prejudices and made it to the president in Mexico, the first to have elected democratically. Despite him being accused of being full-blooded Indian and for this reason he was ugly to the Spanish speaking people in Mexico. However, Benito rose to the highest position in Mexico.

Power Opener

The successful persuaders normally open texts with vigor without even offering appreciation words or praise. For instance, one of the former slaves opened his talk or speech to business firm of Atlanta. In this talk, the former slave, Booker T. Washington, did not start his talk by recognizing or thanking his white hosts for inviting him as a black man. In fact, Booker did to thank anyone for the opportunity to speak. On contrary, Booker opened or rather started his talk by saying that one-third of the people living in South are of Negro race. He did this with an intention of grabbing the attention of the audience. This is something that he was able to achieve quite comfortably since people paid a lot of attention of what the entire speech entailed.

Presentations are Performances

It is argued that each and every outstanding personality in history, whether famous or not famous, popular or unpopular, understood very well the power of drama. For instance, the speeches by Churchill which would be delivered word by word inspired the free word in the way the speaker or the owner would present them to the audience. For this reason drama has power to make the speeches inspiring and great. He was not showman but would move the cloud through his creativity in how he delivered his speeches. It is argued that a person may often face problems while facing others if he or she does not have drama qualities even if he or she has great idea to communicate.

Week 4

Discovering Meaning

How the story means to you as a storyteller is one important elements to arise as you deliver the story. It is therefore important that a storyteller remains clear about the interpretation of the story even if his job is not to impose the interpretation to the audiences. Lack of focus on the part of a storyteller will often result into lack of clarity and this will make the audience to have less attachment to their own diverse meanings of the story being narrated. Being clear about the story you are telling will help the audience to have many meanings out of the one meaning that the speaker has clarified. In other words, the audience will be able to have clear meaning which will help them derive other meanings in their own. This is to say that the storyteller is just giving the meaning to help the audience become creative in the way they interpret it.

Power of Parable

The issue of the parable of Jesus Christ is not just salvation. Jesus used parables in order to communicate the message that would be clear to His followers, He wanted the followers to be able to remember His teachings very well. Jesus would use the parables to explain abstract virtues. It is therefore important that the storyteller be able to be creative in the way he is delivering the story to the audience. The use of hyperboles as well as similes will help emphasize the story and that the audience will be able to remember the story with ease.

Kinesthetic Imagery and Characterization

There is lack of a single term which can exactly describe what kinesthetic imagery. In terms of storytelling, it is important that the storyteller try to expand his kinesthetic vocabulary. The use of kinesthetic imagery helps ensure that the concepts of this model in storytelling especially on the issue of characterization. For this reason, the term kinesthetic simply refers to tow kinds of sensations. These are internal tone and movement sensation. Further, it is explained that the three most useful kinesthetic concepts are body centers, open versus closed postures, and habitual muscular tensions.

Week 5

Content, Delivery, Audiences, and the Speaker

In storytelling, what one says and how says it equally counts. It is therefore assumed that the speaker must be able to be well organized and be sincere about what he is saying in order to have something good to say. The speaker must prove that he is sincere about what he desires to share with his audience. The enjoyment, acceptance and understanding of the story by the audience have to be determined by how the speaker is able to deliver the story. This means that poor delivery of the speech or story will highly affect chances that the audience will enjoy, accept, and understand the story.

Power of Parable

Kinesthetic Imagery and Characterization

Week 6

Imaging Fully

Imagination is a very important element in storytelling. The storyteller is supposed to be exceedingly imaginative in order to deliver something that it exciting telling stories is such an important task which the storyteller has to adapt various tactics of imagination to add flavor to the story. The various sensory modes will ensure that the audience will be able to enjoy the story fully.

Power Poetry

The once delivered speech by Winston Churchill incorporated the aspects such as “of’s” and “the’s” which made the speech look like poetry. It was obsession by Churchill which proved that a speech may not like an article to read aloud. The speech can be delivered as a verse and this sounds just like a poet. Presenting this speech as poetry ensures that the audience is able to remember the speech effectively. In other words, representing the speech as poetry gives a storyteller an opportunity to make sure that the audience is able to remember the speech well.

What you Think you Know may not be Slam

Slams are explained as very captivating poetry events which mainly focus on attractive the live attention of audience. In this case, the storyteller delivers the story in the way it appears as a poet. This is highly applied in a church-like set up where the people animate the listening and watching it. This will help the listeners be able to remember the events better. This will ensure that the storyteller is able to achieve the goal of communicating the message to the audience effectively.

Confronting Stage Fright-Overcoming the Fear

Fear is like a living being which stands the mind of a person. It looks for the weakest point in an individual and attacks it. It is very clever and even treacherous. In order to completely dominate an individual, fear starts attacking the mind. It should be remembered that when fear has already attacked the mind the body becomes aware that some has terribly gone wrong with an individual. This is because the mind is the center of our nervous system. When the mind is already attacked and weakened, this means that the nervous system becomes destabilized and that an individual will be confused and paralyzed. As such, the body organs feel like they are not functioning well. Further, fear diminishes trust and hope and destroys the foundation of an individual. In other words the fear brings an individual to him mortal situation. The fear attacks the mind and the body. It destroys the foundation of an individual and diminishes all the chances of hope or trust. However, the same fear can act as reason for overcoming it.

Pops Ideas and Newspaper Politics

We normally have the ideas about life on the aspects such as politics, celebrities, as well as other social things. There are many political poems which are serious in delivering stories to the audience. These issues also relate to war and suffering. A writer should be able to write from his own experience. For this reason, the writer looks for how to ensure that he delivers the story in the most captivating manner. Imagination is therefore a key thing in this case.

Week 7

Power Line

The speeches of Winston Churchill spelled the distinction between survival and defeat. In this case, his languages contained many memorable lines that may be referred as “power lines”. Winston Churchill was able to incorporate things such as alliteration, echo, rhyme, contrast and metaphor in his speeches. The power lines mean that he was able to incorporate all these things in her speeches in a manner that would ensure that give the audience a memorable moment.

Week 8

Five Minutes

Time management is very important in ensuring that a storyteller is able to deliver the ideas on time. This is to say that the storyteller has to have a plan on how to deliver all the points on time. The ideas that a speaker is delivering will mainly be determined by how well they have been organized. This is to say that a speaker will have to prioritize in the points that are to be delivered. This will help him be able to come up with ways to make the audience accept the pieces delivered.

The Flexible Shifting of Attention

A speaker normally does many things while telling a story. Here, the speaker uses all aspects of oral language such as gesture, as well as change your posture. Further, a speaker has to imagine of a story to tell. The aim here is for the speaker to respond to the audience. As a speaker, you normally have the feelings concerning the story as well as concerning the event. A speaker has also to tell the audience about how what is happening in the story. This will help create a mood where the attention of the audience is attracted. For this reason, the speaker will devise ways to overcome the obstacles that are emanating from distraction.

Power Quote

The words of JF Kennedy in 1960 are highly quoted by far. JF Kennedy as well as Abraham Lincoln were great leaders who fought for civil war through words. Their words were convincing to the audience so that they were able to see the sense of success. This is very important in ensuring that the people were able to understand what was happening. The words used have to be creative and convincing for the people to believe. This calls for imagination.

Week 9

Your Relationship to Your Self

Storytelling is easy, physically demanding, and emotionally demanding. All these statements are very true. When put in a context stage, it is true that storytelling is a universal and natural interaction which is much unrecognized. A storyteller may use voice and body as the physical instruments which will help him overcome the obstacles of public speaking. Since the storyteller has to stand before the audience delivers the story, he is faced with emotional challenge. In other words, the storyteller has to control his emotions in a way that will ensure he makes the audience like the story. Teaching storytelling may require one to develop his body, psyche, voice, as well as his support team. Further, a storyteller has to develop his relationship to his own self.

Matching Style to Material

Since no one wears the same suit for many occasions, then in storytelling, the speaker has to adapt various styles that suit various needs and occasions. It is important that the speaker present himself in a manner that will match specific circumstances. This will help the speaker to match the various circumstances with various themes. As such, the delivery of the story will be suitable on a certain situation. The audience will be able to relate the story with the suitable style used by the speaker. This will enhance memorability as well as proper delivery of the story.

Week 10

Coping with Special Knowledge and its Jargon

There is a story in the book of Genesis where the people abandoned the construction of Tower of Babel. This is very important for our modern era. The survivors of this tower began building a city aiming to get to the heaven. However, God confused their minds and languages and they were not able to continue with their mission. In fact, these people failed miserably because they did not address the fundamental things needed. The coordination as well as inspection of the project was something that these people did not perfect. For this reason, they were not able to complete their project effectively. This is something that also applies in storytelling. When the coordination of events is not good, then the failure is the result.

Power Word

Emphasis of words is very important to show the importance of the meaning of the word. In storytelling, the speaker may be required in most cases to stress some words in order to offer the required emphasis for the audience to note. This will help the audience pay attention to the main words in the story. The audience will be able to interpret the story in manner which is good for getting the intended message. Emphasis has to be noted when the speaker uses high tone while pronouncing some words. This will draw the attention of the audience. It will give the speaker time to pause so that the audience can reflect on the words mentioned. This will ensure that the audience is able to discuss on their own that is supposed to be in the future narration.

Week 11

Building to a Strong Finish

It is very important that the speaker thank the audience for the time to listen and examination of the idea presented. In this case, the most important thing is to ensure that the speaker ends up the narration of the story of a good note. He can interact with the audience to get their feedback. He should be grateful to the audience for having listened to him as well as participating to the examination of the concepts presented. This will ensure that the speaker will be able to get approval to have future interaction with the same audience. It will also offer an opportunity to get the feedback which may improve the future narration. This is very important in ensuring there is sustainability of good storytelling.

Power Closer

Power Audacity

This article starts by saying that people should dare to be different. This is what made Reagan, Lincoln, and Churchill to rise above the crowd. They were able to approach things in a different way. This ensured that they were able to offer exceptional leadership traits that convinced the crowd to believe them. They offer what was unexpected. For this reason, a speaker should be able to surprise his audience. This calls for the speaker of storytelling to be exceptionally creative and imaginative. This will set him apart as one of the exceptional speaker. This will make sure that the storytelling becomes a fun moment. It is difficult to choose one way or the other without valuing the way that there must be incorporation of the two sections previously landing at a conclusion. The greater part of the world's best leaders were conceived with certain exceptionally created qualities, for example, a remarkable abnormal state of desire, an uncommon sense and an ideal mystique. Moreover, leaders share a gathering of normal attributes that have an inseparable tie to identity and nothing to do with position. All things being equal, an individual can't bless him/herself a pioneer. Powerful leadership points a direction on how to benefit as much as possible from “knowing how to lead” either by being formal or by being cautious or by down to earth involvement. This is what is required at last for the accomplishment of any organization. Leadership turns out to be significantly more muddled when endeavoring to characterize the beginning of leaders.

Week 12

Appendix

This area looks at personal improvement after giving the story. It is important that the speaker strives to improve his weaknesses. This will ensure that he is able to offer a better presentation to the audience. As such, it is important that the speaker is able to examine himself internally. This will give an opportunity to jot the points that are important to ensuring the speaker will offer valuable presentation in future.

Development of Self-Authorship

The aspect of self-authorship is central in ensuring that college students have the ability to understand the meaning of the world they are living. This concept is holistic in that it encompasses such things such as interpersonal, cognitive, as well as psychological dimensions. Here, the speaker is engaged in the process of self-authoring himself so that he is able to deliver something that is exceptional.

Week 13

Sources of Ideas

It is argued that every human being posses creative potential. A person is able to do something in unique way and this is why people have the potential to be creative in the way they approach life. Individuals can be able to influence the development of their own self as well as the alterations of the environment that surround them. This is the reason that people can be able to approach the challenges in life in different ways. For this reason, it is important that the individuals are able to improve their situations in how they approach storytelling.

Power Wit

It is important that the speaker be creative on how he or she starts his story. For instance, there are those speakers who may start their story with a joke. However, it is vital that the humor used in story be backed with intelligence. In other words, the speaker has to offer a joke that is sensible so that the audience can find its relevance. It is therefore not the joke but a humor. A humor is something that is an ice breaker. It makes the audience to relax and be able to offer exceptional thing to the audience.

Week 14

Balancing the Details with the Goals

A person normally tells stories because they help him influence his audience. However, for the speaker to move the audience in his story, he has to speak words, make some movements, and get involved in explaining details as well as engaging in discussion of issues. For this reason, the speaker has to adapt various strategies to make the storytelling be a fun event.

Why Others Welcome your Ideas

Ideas may not be beneficial if they remain unexploited in the mind of an individual. For this reason, it is important that people share these ideas and transfer them form one person to another. The audience will benefit when the ideas are circulated among them. This is important to ensure they benefit from the story. This calls for better leadership skills. Leadership is a procedure by which people impact representatives toward the accomplishment of organizational goals. Leadership is likely the most studied subject in management courses and many publications have been made to that effect. Most researchers study leadership's with one restricted perspective in mind, and therefore, the greater part of the investigations falls into unmistakable lines of research which incorporate leaders attributes, conduct, power and situational approaches. Leadership is a conduct we apply when we assume liability for our activities and their results. It is tied in with being responsible when we accept accountability for controlling others. Leadership is regularly the distinction amongst progress and disappointment. It is the thing that isolates the practitioners from the eyewitnesses, and it is the thing that gives positive course to people and organizations.