The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
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The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
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Narrated by:
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Hannah B. Harvey
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Written by:
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Hannah B. Harvey
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The Great Courses
About this listen
An absolute treat for the heart and mind, these 24 lectures demonstrate how to master the art of storytelling, offering insight into the process of crafting and delivering a tale to enhancing the stories you tell everyday - to your children at bedtime, in your conversational anecdotes, and in your presentations at work. Teachers, lawyers, clergy, coaches, parents, and anyone who wants to understand the power of stories to capture hearts and minds will benefit from these lessons.
You'll discover practical methods for building dynamic tension and capturing - then maintaining - your audience's attention. You'll acquire tips and techniques for finding, selecting, and preparing stories, whether they're based on your own experiences, time-honored folk tales, or beloved family yarns. You'll also learn to choose expressive language, craft compelling characters, refine your narrator's point of view, shape your story's plot, structure, and emotional arc, use body language to connect with your audience, and more.
Part how-to workshop, part intellectual study of the history of narrative, these lectures feature exercises that literally get you moving to develop your stories and make them more enjoyable. Professor Harvey's interactive activities and "side coaching" sessions are designed to make you comfortable enough with your story to tell it naturally and make impromptu changes as needed. You'll even learn what to do if the unexpected occurs while telling a story to a roomful of kids or giving a presentation, and about the practical considerations of using props, PowerPoint, and microphones in various scenarios.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2012 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2012 The Great CoursesWhat listeners say about The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
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- Onus111
- 2019-05-14
Inspirational - Exemplary
Hannah will show you how connecting to your story is what matters most. To be inspired and have a personal connection is to have a central focus for your stories. She will show you how to connect, engage, pace, and illustrate your stories. Her examples are fantastic, and easily the best story-telling I have ever heard.
Does this course talk about plot structure and story? Yes, but it is not the central focus, and that is the point. Many people try and look for a formula to story-telling, as though there is a template to follow. Many will focus on the archetypes and the monomyth, and Hannah will talk about it, but she goes further. She will show you how your personal experiences are what matters most, and why you should treat those formulas as an inspiration, not an example.
Be sure to check out her videos too, as her expressions and presence is something that cannot be captured in audio.
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- MG
- 2023-10-11
Inspirational and Responsible
From its beginning to its ending, this course takes you hand in hand to point you at the power of stories. This course is inspirational; it is very healing, organized, thought provoking, challenging, and touching. I highly recommend the investment into this book/course. You will come out a new person in the process. The author knows the responsibility she holds at shaping and guiding her students on this journey. She is a true master at her art. Highly recommended.
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- Richard Galambos
- 2019-08-09
So, you wanna tell a story?
This lecture series contains a wealth of information about the art of telling a story. I found that most of the material applied to someone starting out on this path.
For me it was a refreshing culmination of material that I have picked up here and there. There are a few tid bits of information that I have not previously used.
I found most of tge material to be drama based, however, the tools could be used in lecture, meetings, presentations and the like with little modification.
This lecture is enthusiastically presented and a wealth of information regarding tools of the trade.
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- caperlab
- 2023-03-02
Good Content with Melodramatic Stories
The content of the book is very good but the narrator ‘s story telling is very melodramatic. Tries way too hard, lose the Scottish accent
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- Tyler Sanden
- 2021-12-08
Cringy Storytelling
The author/lecturer isn’t a very good storyteller. I found her stories, and the way she told them, to be really cringy and hard to get through. Good lecturer, bad storyteller
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