How I Work - I Am the Storyteller

When ancient people sat around their fires, when clay pots and stone tools were cutting-edge technology, they shared experiences and made meaning through story. Tellers keep  histories of their clans, names and sequence of events for generations past. We can archive Story in books and on hard drives. But only when audience and Teller make eye contact, in real time, Story becomes an interactive process; like dancers moving to the same rhythm.

All over the world, on porch swings and around kitchen tables, parents recount to their children how their grandparents met in the rain, on the ferry crossing Puget Sound; or at a carnival where she sold tickets, and he ran the Ferris wheel. Children sit cross legged on library carpets, caught up in the adventure of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” With subtle cues and improvised timing, tales becomes personal experience with a unique place in time. Marketing executives forget for a moment, who they are. It’s just a seminar, but as Fairytale entertains it also affirms the importance of attention to detail and the power of a kept promise.

Oral Tradition is a well kept secret; but it is well. Story is the legacy of language, tracks of our culture, and I am The StoryTeller.

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