Stories

Take a Break from Your Story

5 December 2010

Stop to keep Your Story fresh Your Life Story is a process… It’s not something that you can do immediately, it takes time, much like your life. You will be exploring and reliving things of the past and maybe talking of some things for the first time. Some wonderful and uplifting, others challenging and thoughtful. [...]

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Episode 26 : Telling Your Story

30 November 2010

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It’s more than just a conversation when you tell a story Have you ever noticed when you have those very casual conversations that sometimes there is a shift in the way things are mentioned. Instead of it just being a back and forth exchange of thoughts and experiences someone will capture the conversation with a [...]

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Episode 25 : Prompting Your Conversation

24 November 2010

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The prompts of your Life Story are around you. Prompts, ideas or any of the conversational topics are one of the first things that people seem to struggle with when it comes to recording their biography. What will I mention? I don’t have anything to say… Or maybe, I have so many things to say [...]

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Sharing the Love of Recording Life Stories

30 July 2010

I’m sure you’ve done it. Started a new project with enthusiasm, worked hard and thinking that it has value but inside you know that you just don’t know, you just can’t be sure if you’re fooling yourself or if this new idea does have value. At some point there is the realisation that it works [...]

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Episode 9 : Storytelling Skills and Technique

13 July 2010

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Telling Your Story – Authentic, Laconic and Captivating Click to share on Twitter You’re Telling Your Story Storytelling is the art of taking a story, your story or another’s and retelling that story. Creating entertainment utilising all the skills of theatre to modifying your style to suit and engage with the audience, drawing them into [...]

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Bill’s Life Story

10 June 2010

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It Started with Bill’s Life Story I’ve mentioned previously that I have a great deal of respect for the elders of our community, the knowledge that they carry with them from their life experiences and what we can learn from them. In my life I have had several role models for various stages of my [...]

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Cheating an Imagined Loss

7 June 2010

“I know I felt sad because of feeling for the loss of Mum” Recently my Dad has been listening to the five hours of his brother Bill’s Life Story. Stories that include his earliest memories and before. Bill is 12 years older than my Dad. He has the memories of Dad’s childhood, the years that [...]

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How to Record a Life Story

17 May 2010

Recording Life Stories free e-Book is the perfect introduction to the ideas of recording an audio Life Story and then how to publish and share with family or the world.

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Something to Say?

7 April 2010

Well, have you? Sure you have, you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t have something to get off your chest or something that you want to say. I’m sure you have things to share with the world or at least stories that would fascinate your family. That’s what this site is about, this is a [...]