Andy Wright International Story-Teller

Workshop Information

Your Stories, My Stories, Our Stories.

This workshop is designed for use in the education and library sector, it can be as short as 1 hour for students; covering the basics of telling our own stories, or up to 6 hours for educators; including theory, practice, and applications for the classroom.

A workshop designed under the premise that for each one of us life is an odyssey, a journey made up of memorable, people, places or happenings. Along with practical advice and activities for story-telling this workshop primarily consists of a series of memory prompts, to help you recall your journey.

This workshop allows for a great deal of flexibility in time and delivery making it suitable for adults and children.

Jack Goes off to Seek his Fortune

This workshop is primarily focussed on using story to balance career ambition and personal identity.

A workshop targeted at individuals who want to improve their own working life, whilst balancing work against their own personal needs. It is an ideal workshop for team building, and context building within the workplace. This is a workshop aimed at moving beyond 'personality typing' towards 'personal discovery'. Allowing us to deal with colleagues and clients in the workplace not just as human resources, or human capital, but rather as real human beings, with human feelings and human lives.

Narrative Management and Knowledge Management

This workshop will provide practical examples of how we can apply the principles and practice of narrative management in the workplace to address:

• Imparting necessary skills and training to colleagues
• Knowledge and history that provide context for day to day decision making
• Understanding the organisation’s strategy
• Spark action, in a positive and affirmative way
  
• Taming the grapevine, and proactively working through gossip and innuendo
  
• Expressing a meaningful vision, creating future stories and scenarios
  
• Confirming shared experiences and the meaning of the organisation
  
• Preparing groups for planning, decision-making and implementing new initiatives
  

An ideal workshop for managers of staff or information.