time schedule to be finalized in next 48 hours.

Rachel Ballon The Power of Story: We are the stories we live by and the stories we tell.

Steve Barnes  The Enneagram of Story structure (a diagram of non-linear process)

Bailey S. Barash Birthing a New Model of Story:  CNN: The Early Days – How we nailed the stories and missed some along the way.

James Bonnet Unlocking the Power of Story Within You: What is the source of your creativity? How can you communicate with that source and incorporate its power into your stories? This talk will describe four resources and six creative techniques that can help unlock the natural storyteller which resides within you.

Glorianna Davenport    The twenty-first century: cinematic arts at a crossroad

"All things are in process; nothing stays the same"

Throughout the ages, storytelling has been a principal mode of human communication. While the narrative act is shaped by sensory observation, cognitive interpretation, and the desire to share our experience with others, narrative expression becomes public and shared through technological innovation and appropriation. Almost by definition, new expressive technologies require a gestation period in order to gain the momentum required if they are going to become culturally dominant. This period is characterized by experimentation, debate and the exploration of economic opportunity. The struggle between expression and innovation, between old forms and new forms, between what has been and what will be, can be viewed as a harbinger of cultural transformation. In this talk, I present a perspective on emerging cinematic arts and practice as it appears at the crossroads of technological innovation.

 

Dan Decker Creating the Gap. Storytelling in the second century of the art form can take new dimensions. This presents us with an opportunity.

Steve Denning

Abby Gilad (evening) Re-Writing Our Yearly Story

Walking through words; Opening up prayer through story telling

Rob Kall

Robin and Steve Larsen Dimensions of the Hero's Journey

Steve and Robin Larsen Comparing the Shaman's Journey and the Hero's Journey

 

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D. Narrative therapy:  Storytelling and the third wave of psychology. In this introductory talk, I will define narrative psychology and narrative therapy for those who know about stories but are not familiar with their use in psychology and in formal psychotherapy.  Narrative psychology is grounded in post-modern philosophy and represents a transition in psychology from cognitive questions (How can I interpret this world of which I am a part?  And what am I in it?) to post-cognitive questions (Which world is this?  What is to be done in it?  Which of my selves is to do it?).  Narrative psychology studies discourses, which is what humans do in their everyday lives that involves speaking.  Speaking is not limited to language, but is about the world.  Some of the objects we talk about in the world are created by how we talk about them.  Speaking also acts to create the speaker as a subject.  Finally, speaking is coherent -- it makes sense.  Narrative psychology holds that we create discourses to help us make sense of the world.  These stories explain the world.  Some of these stories lead to results that are self-destructive, which then becomes the provence of psychology to re-author these stories in ways that are life affirming.

A.J. Noble The Heroic Journey Matrix

Cathy Pagano Stories that want and need to be Told.

 

David Snowden

Craig Webb Universal Dream Themes as Key Story Elements

David Vanadia Story Cycles

People have devoted their lives to Story, yet most wouldn’t know a story if they held one in their hands. In this talk we’ll look at some of the possible answers to the question, “What is Story?”