Storytelling

Challenge and selection:

Storytelling is an effective tool that I prefer mostly. I work with helpless society, old age people, and  people living hand to mouth. Most of them are facing difficulties in every aspect of their lives, they need  some sort of earning resource and inspiration is a path to empowerment. I used to spend a lot of time  “opening people up” and finding ways to inspire them to improve their conditions. When I work with old  aged people, we share stories for different reasons. Most of them have no one to listen there stories so  when they keep sharing that with me, they feel very happy and I usually take them as lesson and a way  towards life from their experiences. Stories are a kind of inspiration for disable people as they are a sort  of inspiration and to motivate them to move as an independent individual, I use their feedback against  the context of my story to ascertain their goals, and sometimes we use stories to better understand  their interests and thought processes. These feedbacks help me to improve and develop where I find  some sort of issues and where we use to lack and try to be better next time.

Application:

Let me share a story about using storytelling. In discussing policy changes with a social service agency, I  was trying to explain to them the assistances of taking a more user attentive approach, among other  things, and in precise, of identifying each person as a unique life, and addressing their specific needs first  and leading. The agency was in the hold of a “compliance culture” and its consumers were failing in this  non-sympathetic, firm construction. I was also explaining how occasionally talking the requirements of  one specific can impact everyone for the better, even if it seems risky or out of the usual. I told a story  about when I ran an emergency shelter after a destructive force. Everyone was doing great except for  one woman whose stress was making her very emotionally unstable. I could tell she required attention;  in my mind I decided she would be “Princess for an hour.” I made her a cup of coffee and sat beside her  and let her talk. It turned out that her mother, who was with her, had lived a brain cancer and she was  scared that she would fall or that some other disaster would befall her during this tragedy while in the  shelter.

Insight & Approach:

Well, amazed, to see her mother was a calm existence and doing very well. Clearly it was time for me to  speak up with my story. I told her how terrifying it was when my father had his brain cancer in front of  me and how I had to get him to the hospital and how hard and terrifying that all was. I shared how he  improved well, and then knotted us together, by observing how she and I both have parents who  survived brain cancer. This goes very well. She really wanted individual care for that specific time, and  she ended up with that and a true care. She calmed down, her mother, who had become bothered  about her, calmed down, and everyone around them comforted down. Peace led again in our little  shelter. So I told this story to the agency, and I think it had a huge influence on people there. The  policies are being reconsidered and the caseworkers are going through new exercise. Sometimes a little  story can do a lot of good impact. This development made me see this as a tool in a new way. When I've  done it before it was really "unplanned," but now I can make ahead and think of stories that will support  me in bestowing my ideas and best light them. I’m from Textile design background, but I concluded up

as an entrepreneur in business. I had no awareness this would ever be considered an strength, but I am  so very glad that it is!

