Presented by: Dr. Jo Ann Paradise
What is our goal? What have we tried?
What do we know?
What does that mean about effective adult formation?
“The definitive aim of all catechesis is to put people not only in touch but also in communion and intimacy with Jesus Christ.”
“a story is the only way to activate parts in the brain so that a listener turns the story into their own idea and experience.”
Princeton neuroscientist Uri Hasson
“Storytelling has the power to engage, influence, teach, and inspire listeners. There’s a science behind the art of storytelling.”
Lani Peterson, Psy.D. psychologist, professional storyteller, executive coach
Cortisol assists with formulating memories
Dopamine helps regulate our emotional responses, keeps us engaged
Oxytocin creates deeper connections with others associated with empathy an important element in building, deepening or maintaining good relationships.
Storytelling is central to meaningmaking and sense-making. Our minds form and examine our own truths and beliefs. Discern how they correlate with the truths and beliefs of others. Through story listening, we gain new perspectives as we challenge and expand our own understanding by exploring how others see and understand the world through their lens. By sharing and listening to each other’s stories, we all get a little bit closer to what’s true.
If you’re trying to engage, influence, teach, or inspire
When God spoke the Word in Jesus, he had nothing left to say.
Begin with a prayerful reading of the documents
“The charism of inspiration allows God to be the author of the Bible in a way that does not exclude humankind itself from being the author”
(Synod 21)
(Synod 15)
“The Bible the book of God and man, has to be read with a correct blending of its historical-literal sense and the theological-spiritual sense.”
“With regards to what might be inspired in the many parts of Sacred Scripture, inerrancy applies only to ‘that truth which God wanted put into the sacred writings for the sake of salvation’”
Presented by: Dr. Jo Ann Paradise
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