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The Astonishing Power of Storytelling

Leading, Teaching, and Transforming in a New Way
First Edition
By: Robert J. Garmston

Stories have unique power to captivate listeners and motivate action. This guidebook shows how to leverage storytelling to engage and persuade students, colleagues, and all audiences.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781506386393
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2018
  • Page Count: 240
  • Publication date: September 07, 2018
Price: $26.95
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Master the secret to engaging any audience—from classrooms, to colleagues, to conference rooms

Everyone loves a good story. More than entertainment, well-told stories captivate listeners and motivate action. In this guidebook, Robert J. Garmston shows you how to leverage the power of storytelling to engage and persuade students, colleagues, and all other audiences.

Written in Garmston’s warm and conversational style and featuring current cognitive neuroscience research, the book includes:

  • Detailed breakdowns of the essential elements all great stories share, and templates for creating yours
  • Tips for supercharging your stories by drawing from personal experience as well as familiar movies, TV shows, and popular media
  • A guide to effective story delivery, including optimized vocal inflection and body language

Becoming a better storyteller will make you a more effective communicator and educator. Get started today with The Astonishing Power of Storytelling.


Author(s)

Author(s)

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Robert J. Garmston

Robert J. Garmston is Emeritus Professor of Educational Administration at California State University, Sacramento. He is co-developer of Cognitive Coaching with Art Costa and co-developer of Adaptive Schools with Bruce Wellman. He has worked as an educational consultant and made presentations and conducted workshops for teachers, administrators, and staff developers on leadership, learning, and personal and organizational development in twenty-four countries on five continents. Formerly an administrator and teacher in Saudi Arabia and the United States, his work has been translated into Arabic, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish. Bob lives in El Dorado Hills, California, near his five children and five (bright and cute) grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Author and Illustrator


PART I: WHY STORIES WORK


1. Why Tell Stories

Communication Suffocation

Leading Through Narrative

Watch A Story Being Told

How Storytelling Began

2. The Neuroscience of Narrative

Story Worth Watching

Stories Arouse Cooperative Instincts

$$$ The Million-Dollar Story

Desired-State Stories

PART II: FIND, DESIGN, AND DELIVER YOUR STORY


3. Finding Personal Stories

Story Categories

Locating Personal Story Material

Stories About Your Organization

Finding Your Personal Stories

4. Other Story Sources

Six Story Sources

Biographies

Films and Television

Histories

Literature

Stories Unique to a Particular Culture

Two Stories Worth Watching

Metaphor Stories

5. Why Are Metaphors Important?

How Metaphors Are Processed

Right Hemisphere Engagement

Four Uses of Metaphor

Teach Concepts

Generate Ideas

Empower

Go Beyond Logic

Subtexts of Metaphor

6. Desirable Story Features

Engaging Openings

Have a Beginning, Middle, and End

Use Present Tense

Use Sensory Images

Include Tensions

Embed Conflict

Create Voices

Use Memorable Closings

Seven Steps to Preparing a New Story

7. Delivering Your Story

Animation

Stand Like You Are Credible

Centering

Vocal Variety

Intentional Movement

Story Worth Watching

Use Questions to Invite the Audience In

PART III: CHANGING BEHAVIORS WITH STORY


8. Promote Change: Story Structure and Examples

Desired State

Resistance

Applying the Desired-State Map: Three Examples

1. Shouting at a Parent

2. Bear in the Cage

3. A Strong, Yet Delicate Rose

Presume Positive Intentions

9. Meet Groups Where They Are

Pacing

Indirect Suggestions

What Listeners Experience

10. Design for the Intuitive Mind

Invoking Receptivity

Beyond Waking Awareness

Story Elements for Subliminal Processes

Pacing

Misdirection

Artfully Vague Language

Tensions

Indirect Suggestions

11. How Two Stories Changed Behaviors

General Components of a Well-Formed Story

Factual Specificity

Presentation Congruity

Audience Appropriateness

Elicits Empathy

Contains Submerged Moral or Point of View

Creates Internal Representations

Bypasses Protective Filters

Parallels the Audience’s Situation

Lingers on Point of Irresolution

Marks Embedded Commands

Offers Resolutions

12. In Conclusion

Story Catalog


Organizing the Stories

Shifting Perceptions

Inviting Learning

Inspiring Action

Seeking Desired States

Guide to Story Locations


APPENDIX


Worksheet 1: Metaphor Subtexts

Worksheet 2: Anatomy of Desired-State Stories

Worksheet 3: Constructing a Desired-State Story

Poetry Referenced in the Preface

Storytelling Study Companion


References


Index


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