Time to start cranking up the awareness campaign on the book and our “Connection Storymaker App,” that have arisen out of the workshops Dorie Barton, Brian Palermo and I have been running for the past three years. Stay tuned, lots to come in the next few weeks. We’re just getting started.

Connection

COMING SEPTEMBER 9.

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ADVENTURES IN STORYLAND

It’s time to start quietly talking about the new book and app that Dorie, Brian and I have been working on all year. We’re very proud of the book. Actually, I’m extremely proud of the book as it is even more the fulfillment of why I left academia and moved to Los Angeles 20 years ago — even more than my first book.

With this book, I have connected with two artists for a deeper understanding of the central dynamic of broad communication through the use of storytelling/narrative structure. I chose to team up, not with a couple of professors (which would have been going further in the cerebral direction), but with two actors (more in the visceral direction).

Together we have crafted a simple, original model for story development, then created an app that should be popular as a tool for finding the core of your stories for broad communication.

In a few days I’ll have more to say about the app and a series of live events we’ll be staging this fall as we roll out these communications tools, starting with a big wingding in Kansas City, September 12. We’re just getting started.