STORYTELLING

CHALLENGE&SELECTION:

Storytelling has become a part of life as we illustrate to someone our own or

others experience in some part of life or the other. And I use this tool in my life. I am a  student and we friends share our life experience and stories to each other for relaxation or just  to refresh our memories. The stories which I tell motivate them and encourage them to see a  bright side of the life. I used this in many parts of my life. And I am sharing one of them.  During a discussion on counselling particularly on how to make people come out of their  shells and motivate them, I came with an idea of storytelling and shared one of my stories.

APPLICATION:

This happened during my college days, where a friend of mine was

upset for a past few days. And I came to know that her father is unwell and her family is in  financial crisis. She was my good friend who shares everything with me but I had an intuition  that she is suffering from something and did not share it with me. So, one day I asked her  what was the matter with her.  And she burst out into tears. She told that her father has cancer  and he was the only source of income of her family. I was shocked to hear it. Then I decided  to console her and it had to apply storytelling for that.

INSIGHT&APPROACH:

This is the story that I conveyed to her to bring about a change in her

and motivate her. I am a happy and self-satisfied person in others view. But I had my own sad  parts of my life. I told her that she is not the only one to face this type of situation. My father  had suffered from cancer. He is the only source of income of our family and my mother was a  home maker. It was during the starting days of my college life, we came to know that he was  suffering from cancer and was in second stage of it. During those times I had to see my father  suffer in pain every day. We had to get money as debt for his treatment and the thought of  clearing debts gave him more pain. But I decided to support my family by scoring high in my  exams. I did work had for it. My work does bore the fruit of  my labour. And I was the topper  of my class. This got me scholarship and my parents were happy and relieved to hear that.

After hearing this she was relaxed and felt motivated. Then she made

her steps to study harder and she did get a scholarship which did lessen the burden of her  family. Her father was cured from his illness eventually after treatment and she returned to  her normal life. Finally she was happy; felt contended with her life and saw the bright side of  it.

So, I told the discussion team about this. This created a big impact on

them. In a few days people started to discuss about it and also implemented it in their day to  day life.

This tool made me see solutions to problems. I have used this before

but never thought of the impacts it can bring to a solution. So I decided to use this tool to find  solutions hereafter in my life.

