About Storycatching
Story is a map.
The map that gets one person through gets the next person through.
We depend on story to learn from each other,
to inspire values-based action,
to imagine the new ways forward.
Storycatching—how we speak, write, and listen to each other in our personal, professional, and community lives—has always been a core practice of PeerSpirit work. Since the publication of Christina's book, Storycatcher, Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story, we often combine circle practice and storycatching.
Recent organizational events include:
- ALIA (Shambhala Summer Leadership Institute) 'Story and Leadership' 5-day module
- "A Wealth of Stories: Financial Planning and Client Legacy Tales," a super-session for the Financial Planning Association,
- "The Story of Place, and How it Shapes Communities," for The National League of Cities (download and read an article related to this event)
- "Nature's Beauty and Seven Health Care Metaphors," weaving a narrative thread through three days of plenary sessions for the American Organization of Nurse Executives Annual Meeting
For current offerings, please see our Upcoming Story Events page.
Together, Ann and Christina have worked with:
- Ohio State University, with a keynote and 1-day "Circle and Story" seminar
- Capital Health of Nova Scotia, encouraging a culture of stories in a huge healthcare delivery system;
- Several nursing schools on the need for story sensitivity in training floor nurses;
- The Incarnate Word Foundation, on the power of story to shape the work and message of non-profit agencies.
Listen to this podcast of Michael Margolis (of Get Storied) interviewing Christina on May 25, 2010, part of The New Storytellers series. In this segment, Michael and Christina discuss self-reflection as a leadership and storytelling practice, and explore the role of narrative as the basis for life transformation. Those who already know Christina know this is a rich and wonderful delving into her body of wisdom.
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To delve more deeply into story and Storycatching as a movement, see the book's own website: www.storycatcher.net.
