This interactive workshop moves through a story approach to career, which involves story finding, story telling and story listening.
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Full Session Description:
This highly interactive workshop moves through a story approach to career, which involves story finding, story telling and story listening. It will begin with a brief exercise that reveals work values, moving into a free-writing exercise that gets participants actively engaged in story finding. By putting their work values into conversation with the memories, projects, and collaborations which comprise the lived experience of work, participants are able to gain some perspective on themselves as professionals.
With a better appreciation for the breadth and depth of their own experience, tellers are better equipped to communicate this information to others. The second part of the workshop brings a focus to story telling and story listening. With a partner, participants will share some of the stories they found in the exercise described above. Listeners will give feedback about where and when aspects of work values are revealed and embodied. This opportunity to receive and provide feedback offers additional perspective in uncovering connections and broader patterns within and across experiences. Finally, the workshop will conclude with an exploration of linguistic tools that make stories perform even better: tools for effective narrative structure that take advantage of ordering, framing, perspective, and story focus. They help stories DO more for the teller in interaction.
Equipped with a greater appreciation for the power of story (not to mention a pocket full of them), each participant will leave the workshop with new insight and perspective on their professional trajectories including where they are, where they have been, and where they might want to go next!
About the Presenters:
Anna Marie Trester earned her PhD in sociolinguistics at Georgetown. The author of Bringing Linguistics to Work and co-editor (with Deborah Tannen) of Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, Anna Marie has taught courses in linguistics, improvisation, and storytelling at institutions including Howard and Georgetown and the University of Alberta, as well as Washington Improv Theater and Better Said Than Done Storytelling.
Katherine Nelson earned her PhD in linguistics at Rice University. She taught linguistics, cross cultural communication, and second language acquisition theory at Illinois State University and was the language curriculum developer for an American Indigenous Tribe developing culturally informed language curriculum. Additionally, she developed an English Communication Course for a start-up and published curriculum on using ethnographic methodology to help teachers gain skills to better understand their own and their students’ cultural backgrounds.