We blend the fast and the slow with the old and the new to deepen learning and relationships in communities.
For the Orton Family Foundation, we have put together a 30-minute workshop in both video and slideshow formats to take you through an overview of storytelling in community planning efforts, using Orton’s project partner towns as examples to learn from, and with exercises to work through as you think about employing storytelling in your community. [...]
Watch a short movie of excerpts from neighbor-to-neighbor chats in Damariscotta, Maine as part of Orton Family Foundation’s Heart and Soul Project.
With Orton, we are exploring the potential role of storytelling, both traditional and digital forms, in community engagement efforts. Damariscotta has experimented with story circles and story interviews thus far as ways to bring [...]
On April 14, we led a workshop, on planning community storytelling projects, for Orton Family Foundation in Starksboro, Vermont as part of their Art & Soul Project, an initiative to use art to enhance civic engagement in rural communities as they plan for their future. View the slides from the workshop here:
Starksboro Overview
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