In a researcher’s toolkit, storytelling is fundamental for meaning-making and sense-making: it can be used both to communicate scholarly information and build human connections with potential partners. In this workshop, participants will review and practice storytelling strategies and setup. Building on this foundation, participants will then consider how storytelling can be crucial to community building. This might include articulating stronger links between their personal experiences and the research questions they seek to address, facilitating perspective-taking, building relationships founded on trust and transparency, and crafting narratives of collectively imagined futures. Participants will be introduced to research collaboration scenarios that explore how this type of communication can build bridges across disciplines and cultures, reflect on their own experiences, and consider how to apply blended storytelling techniques to their own future work.
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