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Synthesis
The Things We Love... Story Listening Workshops collect joyful stories by encouraging people to record things they love to happen in the world.
How it Works
Oil pastels and drawing paper are provided at each workshop event for people to generate colourful pictures and word phrases. Each story is logged in the story log, with the name of the story teller, a description of the story, and the time the story was told. At the end of each event, all story pictures are photographed and added to a carefully curated collection.
Story tellers are invited to leave an email address so we can stay in touch. Story tellers are told when their story is added to the collection, and where they can view it on-line. Story tellers are also invited to become story listeners, and to seek more joyful stories.
Story listeners are invited to help with future story listening workshops. Story listeners are also invited to help with curating the collection of stories. Story listeners who help with more than one workshop event are invited to hold their own workshop events and to contribute to curating the collection of stories.
The story collection is permanently presented in our on-line gallery.
Ingredients
Learn how to make a story listening workshop by reading the Recipes.
Curation
We photograph all the stories and upload them to flickr (a popular photo sharing website). And story details written on the log are put into the description of the photo for that story.
The gallery is intended to display a careful selection from each workshop, mainly to concentrate the affect. Our current policy, derived entirely by accident, is for the gallery story selection to be self-selected by the story author in this way: only stories logged at the workshop by the author are entered into the gallery. This seems to be a good way to collect the more considered contributions together, and generates the most good feelings for gallery visitors.
One World, One Story
We do hope to compose the stories into one big story, as a networked narrative, but it's still early days at the mo.