The Stories that Connect Us
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Are we losing our narrative culture or are we at the threshold of a new narrative Renaissance?
As more of us engage in growing the horizons of our connections, we remain equally committed to the quality of our connections. Since the beginning of human time, rich narratives create rich connections. When narrative is core to who we are and what we become together, the stories we share unleash the serendipity of new possibilities.
Our personal narratives have always been and will continue to be the basis for our most engaging intimate, social, economic, political and spiritual media.
In ”The Stories that Connect Us” 8-time author and designer Jack Ricchiuto explores the power and art of storycrafting, storytelling, and storylistening, the power of the stories that connect us. Visit Jack at DesigningLife.com.
Transforming our planet, one story at a time
In “The Stories that Connect Us”, Jack Ricchiuto explores …
- Why have stories been the most powerful way of connecting since the beginning of time?
- Is social media eroding or empowering our cultural capacity for narrative?
- What kinds of personal stories have the greatest potential for creating rich connections?
- What are the design elements of well-crafted stories?
- How can we listen to evoke rich meaning from each other’s stories?
- How can we build and enrich our portfolio of personal stories?
- Why do stories have more power than statistics in inspiring transformation and change?
From the introduction
In this golden age of connection, screens have become the new face reshaping the landscape of what it means to be distant and close.
Screens are connecting students in remote villages to a new globe of possibilities online. Screens are reuniting and updating friends and families across time zones. They are creating economies unconstrained by the boundaries of nations.
In my grandparent’s time, the only screens were back door screens and all connections were close connections.
My parents’ generation saw the advent of television screens. And as media became the message, the possibilities of a global village emerged.
In these days of multi-screen environments, there are no limits to the footprints of friendship and partnership. As space and time shrinks to the size of our screens, distant connections can easily outnumber those that are close.
What technology hasn’t changed is the fact that I have the same daily personal capacity as my grandparents to cultivate and sustain close connections. What is also true is that close connections become possible today in the same way they became possible millions of years ago: through the sharing of our stories.
Closeness is no longer confined by the dimensions of geography. It is defined by the power of shared personal narratives. We come together in the stories that connect us.
