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Hack your mindset to revolve your life
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Hack your mindset to revolve your life
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds” — Bob Marley
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Hack your mindset to revolve your life •
100 days of learning - Age of wonderland
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Reach out and empower younger generations •
Aspiring for greater things
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Eager to learn, acquire skills and experiences
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Believe that they can achieve what they want
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Design their lives
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sharing your story Why?
What?
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Humans love stories
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Engage the hearts and heads of your audience
Tell who you are, your ideas and what you believe in
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Effective way to send your message across
Tell about your family, community, colleagues
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Teach a lesson
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Motivate change
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Show a different perspective
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What I learned with my story •
Perseverance
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Resilience
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Appreciate my loved ones
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Human relationships
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Call to action! Create a story that lasts no more than 2 minutes
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Steps to create your story 1. Prepare your strategy •
Audience, goal, interest
2. Select a story to share •
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Strategy
Story
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Appropriate story
3. Select a technique •
Structure your story
Telling
Technique
4. Telling your story •
Practice & Tell
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1. Prepare your strategy •
Who is your audience? Young generations: Teenagers, young adults
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What is your goal? Empower them to achieve their goals
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Why should your audience be interested in your story? Because it’s real, achievable and funny
Source: http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/storytelling-change
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2. select a story to share •
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Choose a “passionate purpose”to engage your audience Admit
Challenge
Elicit empathy
Paint a picture
Stand your ground
Accuse
Clarify
Elicit remorse
Plead
Surprise
Admonish
Condemn
Excite
Punish
Tantalize
Alarm
Confront
Forgive
Reassure
Taunt
Amuse
Console
Get attention
Reveal
Vindicate
Apologize
Convince
Gloat
Shake up
Warn
Argue
Dazzle
Impress
Shame
Welcome
Attack
Defend self
Indict
Share secret
Win over
Beg
Deny
Inspire
Shock
Calm
Dismiss
Motivate
Speak your truth
Brainstorm about a moment in your life that can fulfill that purpose (3 min)
Source: http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/storytelling-change
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Expressing memories •
When you think of your preparation to come to Germany, which is the strongest and more vivid memory that you recall? It should come to your mind easily
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Which emotions do you associate with that memory? Try to express that emotion in your paper, you can write it down, draw it, act it out or tell it to someone
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Brainstorm on how to express those emotions in your story (3 min)
Source: http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/storytelling-change
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3. Select a storytelling technique
Source: http://www.sparkol.com/engage/8-classic-storytelling-techniques-for-engaging-presentations/
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Monomyth •
The Hero’s journey
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12 steps that explains how you got to your current state
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Useful for: •
Taking the audience through a journey
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Showing the benefits of taking risks
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Demonstrating how new wisdom was found
Source: http://www.sparkol.com/engage/8-classic-storytelling-techniques-for-engaging-presentations/
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The hero’s journey
What makes a hero? - Ted-Ed Source: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero-matthew-winkler
The hero's journey - Vimeo Hack your mindset to revolve your life
The hero’s journey 1. Status quo - Start 2. Call to adventure - Invitation, challenge 3. Assistance - Help from someone wiser 4. Departure - Cross the threshold into the special world 5. Trials - Hard work 6. Approach - Face the biggest ordeal/worst fear
Source: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero-matthew-winkler
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The hero’s journey 7. Crisis - Darkest hour, reborn 8. Treasure - Claims a special recognition 9. Result - Hero changes in the special world 10.Return - Goes back to ordinary world 11.New life - Hero has grown 12.Resolution - Plots got straightened
Source: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero-matthew-winkler
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4. Telling your story Presentation advice •
Viscerally re-experience the moment, connect your emotions to the content and the experience
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Provide lots of sensory details
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Use "bullet phrases”, keep the story short and to the point
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Play different roles, bring characters to life
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Use various vocal ranges
Source: http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/storytelling-change
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Communication Use your voice and body to express emotions. Inspire your audience with your passion Use vocal ranges •
Alter your pitch (high - low)
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Change the volume (loud - soft)
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Change the speed or rhythm of delivery (slow - fast)
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Use pauses to generate interest
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Use your best sound quality
Source: http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/storytelling-change
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Props and visual aids •
Real props - Use it with an action
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Symbolic props - Use it as a metaphor
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Don’t spend a lot of time using the props, the story is the message
Source: http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/storytelling-change
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Thank you!
Credits and sources TED Ed lessons •
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero-matthew-winkler
The Hero’s Journey video •
https://vimeo.com/140767141
Plusacumen course - Storytelling for change •
http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/storytelling-change
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https://course.novoed.com/storytelling-change-2017-3/home
Khan academy - Pixar in a box - The art of storytelling •
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/storytelling
8 Classic storytelling techniques for engaging presentations •
http://www.sparkol.com/engage/8-classic-storytelling-techniques-for-engaging-presentations/
Icons from thenounproject.com •
Aleksandr Vector - World
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Andrew Doane - Superhero
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