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The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
- Narrated by: Hannah B. Harvey
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
An absolute treat for the heart and mind, these 24 lectures demonstrate how to master the art of storytelling, offering insight into the process of crafting and delivering a tale to enhancing the stories you tell everyday - to your children at bedtime, in your conversational anecdotes, and in your presentations at work. Teachers, lawyers, clergy, coaches, parents, and anyone who wants to understand the power of stories to capture hearts and minds will benefit from these lessons.
You'll discover practical methods for building dynamic tension and capturing - then maintaining - your audience's attention. You'll acquire tips and techniques for finding, selecting, and preparing stories, whether they're based on your own experiences, time-honored folk tales, or beloved family yarns. You'll also learn to choose expressive language, craft compelling characters, refine your narrator's point of view, shape your story's plot, structure, and emotional arc, use body language to connect with your audience, and more.
Part how-to workshop, part intellectual study of the history of narrative, these lectures feature exercises that literally get you moving to develop your stories and make them more enjoyable. Professor Harvey's interactive activities and "side coaching" sessions are designed to make you comfortable enough with your story to tell it naturally and make impromptu changes as needed. You'll even learn what to do if the unexpected occurs while telling a story to a roomful of kids or giving a presentation, and about the practical considerations of using props, PowerPoint, and microphones in various scenarios.
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- Reviewer Tales
- 27-11-20
Telling stories, not writing stories
So many books are about writing books and scripts, story structures, etc. This book is a out telling stories specifically. Yea it covers structure and narrative arcs and emotional arcs, etc. But also so much more around being a narrator, accents, and body posture to communicate depth. An excellent series if you want something practical about telling stories, not just a theoretical treatment.
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- Daniel
- 29-09-17
It's time to share your story!
Storytelling can benefit you in every day life, sales and business!
This was a great overview of tools and tips you can use to add dramatic effects to your story. Her delivery is quit
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- Anonymous User
- 05-08-20
Masterful lessons and performances
I really enjoyed the lessons. It gave me good understanding of narator, story and audience
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- elvijs
- 25-10-22
great book.
A lot of useful advices for those who suck at story telling. Thank you for the examples!
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- D. J. Wilkinson
- 20-07-15
Good but...
I found this book useful, with some really good insights. However I did find it a bit tedious at times. It could be a cultural difference between British and American Styles of story telling / listening. A preview of the points she is making would have been useful as it is not always apparent.
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- Peter
- 10-08-20
A wonderful insight into expression.
I really enjoyed listening to every aspect of these lectures. I'm no one for telling a good story and indeed public speaking but I now find myself with every interaction now having snippets of this course popping into the mind urging me to engage and thrive through the spoken word.
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- Gergana
- 07-03-15
Erudite and Inspirational
Where does The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This book brought me back to my long forgotten love of storytelling. It provides practical ideas of how to structure the creative energy of the story as well as practical advice on voice control, memorizing and connecting with the audience. I am definitely going to listen to this again and again.
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- Michael W.
- 28-06-16
informative, instructive and brill!
this course gives the listener a solid framework for understanding storytelling and how it reaches others
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- SteveN
- 26-10-22
Very Good
If you are looking to improve your story telling whether it be for presentations or bedtime, this Great Course will help you develop some if the skill used by storytelling proffesionals.
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- G
- 22-06-15
Storytelling, as taught by a poor story teller.
What would have made The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals better?
I really wanted to get in to this course, but I can't get over the poor storytelling skills of the tutor. Although she knows what it technically means to be a good storyteller, her application of those things she tries to teach and her cringe-worthy, nerve-jarring use of accents and dialects (most notable is her attempt at a Scottish accent, something she claims to have had coaching on. I don't know by who, but I don't believe they were Scottish) makes me completely lose trust in what she has to teach. One of the most annoying things about the whole audio book is when she exhales in a short blast through her nose at something she finds humorous - which generally isn't humorous at all, it's almost a confidence issue and does it through nerves (much like somebody might say 'urr' and 'umm' a lot when they are nervous). She does this a lot.
It very much feels like the subheading should have the "to Professionals" part taken out, as it does not feel like her performance style should be aimed at anyone older than early teens.
If she taught the essentials with a better storyteller performing the actual story parts, it would be a much better listen.
Would you ever listen to anything by The Great Courses again?
I certainly would, as they have some great courses in their catalogue.
Would you be willing to try another one of Professor Hannah B. Harvey’s performances?
Based on my experience with this book I very much doubt that I would.
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
There will probably be plenty of listeners who have learnt something from this book, unfortunately if I can bare to finish the last 1/5 of it I am not likely to be one of them.
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