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“All of life is lived through story.” : Bryan Delaney

  • Posted on March 22, 2014
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“All of life is lived through story…Story is how we make meaning of our lives.  Every waking moment we’re bombarded by story,” said playwright Bryan Delaney, speaking to an audience in the Round Room at Dublin’s Mansion House during the March 17th, 2014 event We…

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Princess Charming

  • Posted on March 29, 2012December 6, 2013
  • Storytraining

In the Cracked.com article “5 Ways Modern Men are Trained to Hate Women,” David Wong proposes that the stories we tell teach men that society owes them a hot chick.  He writes: We were told this by every movie, TV show, novel, comic book, video…

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The Stories We Tell: Manipulating Image

  • Posted on June 26, 2010December 6, 2013
  • Storytraining

You’ve heard about the Rolling Stone article about General McChrystal.  It’s all over the news, and everyone seems to have an opinion about how McChrystal could have had such massively ‘poor judgment.’  A coworker of mine suggested that he might have been deliberate about stepping…

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Lives Lived through Storytelling (Thursdays In Others’ Words)

  • Posted on June 18, 2010December 6, 2013
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“Ulysses is about ordinary people, ordinary lives, ordinary days. But those ordinary days make up lives that are lived, and lived through storytelling in the ways we create our own stories around us all the time.” –James Quin of the James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland,…

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