From Idea to Impact So you have an idea for a story. It might be for a simple social media post or an elaborate brand campaign. But before you start writing, pause. A great story isn’t just told; it’s designed. The right questions can transform a good idea into an unforgettable narrative that resonates with […]
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“It takes a very long time to become young.” (Pablo Picasso) Did you have difficulty making friends as a child? Experience scholastic boredom and more than the normal helping of social problems? A little unconventional and nonconformist even at primary school? Eccentric parents? A study of gifted creatives by Psychologist Ellen Winner cited these early […]
I’d just graduated and there I was in what was called “a mental hospital” starting my internship. My very first “patient” was Don. I was prepared for the encounter by reading his file. He’d suffered traumatic injuries from a motorbike accident some years earlier and while his body had healed, his mind was drastically changed. […]
We can only appreciate story through engaging it wholeheartedly, telling it and then reflecting upon it. Does story describe? Does it possibly create as well? Is story simply the only way we have of organising memory? What is the link between language and time? What is your story? Who are you? To what extent is […]
Billions of neurones are constantly making and pruning connections with other neurones in your brain. Acts of thinking and perception can be detected at the neuronal level as a complex movement electro-chemical signals. So it’ll come as no surprise that stories have a significant impact of the neurochemistry of our brain/mind/body complex. DARPA (Defence Advanced Research […]
There is a magical link between life story and the way we construct our selfhood/sense-of-self and the experience of the world around us. This timeline helps you unpack and deconstruct your own narrative and then craft it into the Heroes Journey it deserves to be – reframe and recreate it to get what it is you […]
Life is story. What we know of the world and ourselves is made up of countless stories that we hear, tell to ourselves and share with others. But stories don’t just describe, they literally construct who we are, our relationship to the world and the way in which the world relates to us. You can see […]