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Coaching Public Narrative Lessons by the Resistance School (Videos)

Resistance School

  • Type

    Videos

  • Region

    Global

  • Practice

    Public narrative

  • Language

    English

These videos from The Resistance School will show you how to coach participants in how to tell their story of self, us, and now.

Introduction

Watch Marshall Ganz’s Teaching Team – Sarah El-Raheb, Anita Krishnan, Jeff Rousset. Rosi Greenberg, Anjali Rodrigues – explain how to coach public narrative.

Lesson 1: The Do’s and Dont’s (8.18 mins)

This video will show you how to avoid some of the common pitfalls of ineffective coaching and provide a model for effective coaching of a story of self.

Lesson 2: Story of Self: How to Coach Public Narrative

Learn how to coach someone to develop a story of self by getting them to dive into a moment of challenge in their past where they made a choice that led to an outcome which informs the work they do today.

Lesson 3: Story of Us (6:24 mins)

This video will show you how to coach your group through developing a story of us.

Lesson 4: Story of Now (5:58 mins)

This video will show you how to coach your group to develop your Story of Now.

Lesson 5: Linked Narrative (7:24 mins)

This video will show you how to coach one of your team members to develop their full “linked” public narrative in order to make it as powerful and effective as possible.

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