Storytelling     Challenge:  I work for an International Development organization in Central America. I participated in  a two-day meeting with other country agencies and I was responsible to facilitate one out of  several sessions during this meeting. We work daily with people to address diverse  development challenges. However sometimes it is easy to forget about the people we work  for and we talk about them as our result. However, I decided that I wanted to make sure that  during my session we would talk about the people we work for. So, I decided to use  storytelling as an icebreaker but also as a reminder to why we are here and for who we are  working for so we could connect to these people and at the same time share this piece of  information while telling a story.     Selection and Application:   Firstly, when facilitating this session, I initiated by telling that we have been talking about  number and results, however no one have mentioned any person that we work with or for.  This was a reminder to remind ourselves that we are working with people and without them  we wouldn’t be here. Therefore, should we also bring their presence here by telling their  stories. I asked everyone to think about a person with their complete name they meet during  their job that have impacted. One person started talking about a person she met and how  she remembers his smile and gratitude towards them. Then another one started sharing and  another one. Until we had three completed stories and faces of the person and the results,  we had gained the last month.     Insight:   It was beautiful to be part of this and noticing how my colleagues got moved by telling and  hearing this story about these persons. This resulted in having three people’s stories, bring  the people with us even if they couldn’t be there in person because they are the reason why  we have this project. It was beautiful and reminded me about the power of telling stories  and how we should apply it more often because people don’t forget stories. This made our  work and result more relatable, it gave it color, life in character and plot. After this I  initiated my session bearing in mind these three persons whose story was able to be told  and the connection it created with the other participants and the one telling the stories  connecting it to our result and projects.     Approach:   What I might would have done differently would be that I would have shared a story to  initiate myself. I gave this tool a twist, however do I think it can be used in different ways  as long as we manage to connect the audience with the people and this twist was also more  suitable for the audience I was working with, since I wanted to make it participatory


Storytelling Challenge : I work for an International Development organization in Central America . I participated in a two - day meeting with other country agencies and I was responsible to facilitate one out of several sessions during this meeting . We work daily with people to address diverse development challenges . However sometimes it is easy to forget about the people we work for and we talk about them as our result . However , I decided that I wanted to make sure that during my session we would talk about the people we work for . So , I decided to use storytelling as an icebreaker but also as a reminder to why we are here and for who we are working for so we could connect to these people and at the same time share this piece of information while telling a story . Selection and Application : Firstly , when facilitating this session , I initiated by telling that we have been talking about number and results , however no one have mentioned any person that we work with or for . This was a reminder to remind ourselves that we are working with people and without them we would n’t be here . Therefore , should we also bring their presence here by telling their stories . I asked everyone to think about a person with their complete name they meet during their job that have impacted . One person started talking about a person she met and how she remembers his smile and gratitude towards them . Then another one started sharing and another one . Until we had three completed stories and faces of the person and the results , we had gained the last month . Insight : It was beautiful to be part of this and noticing how my colleagues got moved by telling and hearing this story about these persons . This resulted in having three people ’s stories , bring the people with us even if they could n’t be there in person because they are the reason why we have this project . It was beautiful and reminded me about the power of telling stories and how we should apply it more often because people do n’t forget stories . This made our work and result more relatable , it gave it color , life in character and plot . After this I initiated my session bearing in mind these three persons whose story was able to be told and the connection it created with the other participants and the one telling the stories connecting it to our result and projects . Approach : What I might would have done differently would be that I would have shared a story to initiate myself . I gave this tool a twist , however do I think it can be used in different ways as long as we manage to connect the audience with the people and this twist was also more suitable for the audience I was working with , since I wanted to make it participatory