Haqim Ahmad - Storytelling

Challenge & Selection

I am a president of the volunteer club in the university. Every year, we are going out  and searching for any schools or villages that need help. What I have to do everytime  I'm coming back from a survey trip is to tell my club members what I and my team  found out about the school or village that we were visitting. So, the very important tool  I always use is storytelling.     Application

Actually if I tell all the story I'd met during the trip, it will be very long and my club  member may get bored instead. So, I prepare myself before using the storytelling tool  by reviewing what I've done, what I've known, and what I want my audiences to  understand and realize about what I'm trying to tell. I start the process by telling how  come we choose to go to those places and what we've met, and in some parts, I  even use the conversation or speech of the people I talked to during the trip.  Sometimes, it may not makes sense to you, it may not use the word you are familiar  with, but it's things that your audiences understand and your audiences know.    Insight & Approach

What I have found from doing this is that storytelling really helps you out in the  comfort way to give your audiences a better understanding. And it's another way to  let your audiences digest the contents easily. If I go back to the beginning of the  story, they still remember what I've told them. And then, in the end, the important  thing you have to do is to connect points of story that you plot to the audiences to the  whole. So, absolutely that next time I will use the storytelling tool again.

