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Saturday, January 23, 2010
12 noon—3:00 pm Central Standard Time
Taking place at: Wherever_you_are, Earth
"Effect" / "Affect:" one of those sets of words like "imply" and "infer" that can bedevil people trying diligently to express themselves effectively and drive others who value precision in language bonkers when misuse or abuse takes place.
The good news is it doesn't matter what you are trying to achieve, results or influence (the difference between effect and affect), you can raise the probability of getting either or both dramatically by getting good at using stories to make your point. You can get good at that by participating in our webinar.
Here's how you can participate on January 23, 2010, from noon — 3:00 pm CST, from wherever you are — preferably gathered in threes: register today by contacting Ben Refling at
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or 651-665-0861.
Lutherans Concerned / North America (LC/NA) is offering a free "webinar" to train scores of people all over the country to tell their own stories strategically, compellingly, and efficiently, honing stories into powerful, two-minute instruments for persuasion--and then train others to do the same. The focus is on integrating your own stories with talking points and positive frames for engaging the church to achieve the full welcome and inclusion of all. You will then be able to take these skills to train others to tell their stories at congregation and synod events.
Our goal: prepare 1,000 storytellers all across the country to tell their stories.
Participants will learn to
- put faces on abstract concepts, making them personal
- begin new relationships
- communicate values through emotions
- teach, inspire, and motivate others to action
- present one training session in their own synod between now and the end of synod assembly season 2010
This is not rocket science. We all can learn quickly how to do this and how to pass the skill on.
And participating on the 23rd isn't rocket science either. All you need is a computer, equipped with a DVD player / drive, email access, a telephone with speaker phone capability, and two storytelling partners (that's you and two others).
The only cost: your long-distance phone minutes; if you have unlimited long distance, you pay nothing more. Specific instructions about how to connect and how the files necessary to the conduct of the training will be made available to you will be communicated prior to the training.
Each participant, working in groups of three, will be voice-connected with the trainer via teleconference and will follow a PowerPoint presentation and recorded video links sent to you in advance. Each group will then practice and critique stories, sending questions via email to the trainer as the training progresses.
Strategic story telling practice happens in groups of three. So, start organizing people now!
Contact your chapter to see if they are organizing for this event.
Get three, six, or nine people together, find a good meeting place with broadband internet (and a large screen projector or monitor, if you are able), and you're all set.
Even if you've already been trained in storytelling, as many were at previous assemblies and last year's webinar, consider participating. The January 23 training will give you further opportunity to practice and will be focused specifically toward furthering full inclusion.
When we tell our stories to even one other person, the Holy Spirit is most certainly present. When we inspire that person to tell two or three others, justice begins to roll down like waters.
Remember, you will need to do the training in groups of three. If you don't know of others in your synod who might be interested, let us know; we can help.
Register today by contacting Ben Refling at
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or 651-665-0861. |
