Interviewing Others to Create Storytelling

How to engage others to tell great stories of techniques to be able to tell stories in your own style.

Real Time Multi-Media Journaling a Life Story

28 January 2012

In this new digital age, what does it mean to have a journal?
Many people have diaries or journals to record the everyday significant and mundane aspects of their life.
Then there are others who look back over their life and capture a reflective biography.
Both systems primarily concern themselves with using text and language as a …

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WRONG – You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

9 December 2011

Go try and guess, I’ll bet you’ll be wrong!
There are many things that you can prepare for a Life Story. The questions, location, additional information like photos but one thing you can be guaranteed of is, there will be surprises that will astound you.

These surprises could be in just hearing the stories that you …

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Interviewing and Story Telling with Ira Glass and Richard Fidler

10 November 2011
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What we can learn from the professionals.
I was listening to this episode of Richard Fidler’s wonderful Conversations, interview programme on the ABC and thinking how much of it is relevant to what we’re doing with Life Stories.

From Richard’s recent trip to the US we have this interview with Ira Glass, host of the hugely …

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Episode 62 : Fear of Your Life Story

2 November 2011
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Are you fearful of telling your story, or just a little shy?

In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to open a conversation about the reasons for people not wanting to tell their stories, particularly when they say that they are interested.

In recording conversations for Your Story, I’ve noticed several, sometimes contradictory reasons why people avoid wanting …

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Have you been told a Furphy?

24 October 2011

Origins of culture aren’t always understood.
In Australian parlance to be told a Furphy is to be told a great yarn that probably isn’t true.

All too often we use sayings, knowing the meaning but not knowing it’s origin. Telling a Furphy is a term still used today that originates in WWI but few know of …

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Reporting Your Family Story

19 October 2011

Look at your life, like a journalist would.
Have you thought about approaching your own life and therefore, your families story as a journalist would?

In a recent post on CNN Mark Whitaker suggested some great ideas to help you dig deeper into your family, using some of the skills that he’s gained in 35 years …

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Episode 60 : Remember the Stories of Community

5 October 2011
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Remember the groups of people and the stories of shared lives.

We all live in different communities that change over time. Some we leave some change but all are filled with the people who we share our lives with, forming the stories of our lives. What are the stories of your communities through your life?

Look …

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Live Question & Answer Show

17 September 2011

Come and join us on our first live Q&A on Ustream.
 

Everyone is welcome to join the First live broadcast of Create Your Life Story with host Ian Kath.

Live broadcast by Ustream
I mentioned the graphic with links on the images that could be used to generate a linkable PDF. This is the Linkable PDF that …

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Episode 58 : Oral History View of Life Stories

6 September 2011
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Oral History shows the professional methods to a Life Story

Creating your own personal family history, Life Story will utilise some the methods of various different techniques of human communication. In the past we talked about the skills of Storytelling and how to get across the story with the emotional impact that we want. The other discipline …

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Questions, Answers and Topics Discussed on Live WebCast

31 August 2011

Coming soon to an internet connection near you
17/18 September 2011
In the latest podcast episode, Storyboard to See Your Whole Life Story, I mentioned that we’ll be having our first opportunity to get together live, to answer questions and discuss aspects of creating a Life Story.
Too often we just wonder about things and never consider specific topics. This is …

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Episode 57 : Storyboard to See Your Whole Life Story

29 August 2011
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A simple tool to discover the topics of your Life Story
and a different way to share the whole of your life in one view!

Today’s episode of Create Your Life Story is full of listener feedback about how their individual projects are developing including a conversation with Paul Harbath about his personal Life Story project and the …

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Your Grandmother the Nazi Killing War Hero.

19 August 2011

Contradiction creates the interest in a great story.
The Australian heroine and most decorated servicewomen of WWII, Nancy Wake, recently  died at he age of 98 in London. This diminutive old lady, once a beautiful young woman, was the Gestapo’s most wanted person with a 5-million-franc price on her head and thought nothing of killing Nazis to aid …

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Episode 56 : The Secret – They’ll Telling You Everything

15 August 2011
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Your infatuation will cause them to open up

Great storytellers can draw you into their world of interests but most people need someone to be a provocateur to help them express themselves. That’s your role! It’s never an interview but a directed conversation where you keep the conversation on track through engagement.
But how to engage …

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Ian’s Podcasting Interview

4 August 2011

Some of Ian’s back story on Podcast²

Podcast review site Podcast² is all about letting you know what is out there in the world of podcasting and winnowing out the wheat from the charf. Recently I was interviewed but Andrew about how I got started in podcasting and a bit of the back end story …

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5 Ways to Listen Better

4 August 2011

Your number 1 skill to hone – Listening!
Sitting and recording someone’s Life Story in a directed conversation has never been an interrogation, that’s more akin to an interview where you question and collect data. To really get to know someone and to connect, the most important thing, is to Listen.

Listening is where it starts, …

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Episode 55 : 3 Steps to the Stories of Your Philosophy on Life

3 August 2011
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One sentence to sum up your philosophy on life

Push, pull… Fight, kick and scratch or just let it be and do as you like, or not! How do you do this thing called your life?

If you’ve had the good fortune to raise children you’ll sometimes find yourself sharing your beliefs on life. What it …

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