THE POWER OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE IN TEACHING:
How to enrich student engagement towards career.

DESCRIPTION: This half-day development program invites educators to examine and enhance learning and teaching styles using a personal narrative approach.

The design-build process of a story-based teaching (SBT) class will be featured in this workshop, anchoring professional educators with the reasons personal identity and work-life narrative facilitate knowledge transfer and thoughtful reflection. Dr. Dennis will share diagrams and graphs from original work-life story research to highlight the psychologically and social significance of narrative identity formation; who is always mindful of keeping the workshop grounded in “doing” the teaching versus sharing theory.

Story-based learning offers a clever, effective, and easy-to-retain way to transfer knowledge in a world where learning has become pressured by time constraints. Dr. Dennis will also share how the science of story accelerates learning key leadership competencies – including adaptability, creativity, receptivity, exploration, communication, and organization – offering a clear pathway to career development.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: This workshop has the following learning objectives. At the conclusion of the workshop attendees will be able to:

• Build a threshold story to enhance student receptivity at the beginning of any lesson;
• Understand how stories and personal narratives can create virtual coaching lessons in a classroom setting;
• Acknowledge how formative life lessons help transfer knowledge;
• Create contextual connections with the stories of others linked to (8) competencies;
• Understand how when hearing another’s story, such lessons can enhance the intentional or unintentional nature of key life experiences and prompt more positive outcomes in relationships (both classroom and non-classroom);
• Examine how individualized personal narrative formation shapes one’s career by using a story-based framework for thinking about skill development and career style in considering one’s future career path.

PRESENTER: Dr. Dennis Rebelo, Executive Director, NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP Inc. & Asst. Professor of Technology, Leadership and Management, ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

DESCRIPTION: This half-day development program invites individuals to engage in learning their work-life story and learning to honor and explore the power of team-members’ narratives; StoryPathing™ is the process that unlocks the power of your story, your group’s story, and helps individuals positively take charge of building or re-shaping an organization’s culture!

This workshop uses the StoryPathing™ process to help participants tap into their key moments in personalized stories, as a way to evolve how they “show up” at work. Formative moments in one’s life offer insights in creating a future chapter linked to the present chapter and rooted in the past. Participants will identify a central theme in order to create a prevalent sense-making, relevant story; participants will also learn how to self-lead through stories, and tell stories to other individuals and groups pulling together newly identified skills, motives and personal style.

Story-based leading offers an authentic, grounded, and integrated way for individuals leading organizations, non-profits, and teams to account for their changing narratives. It creates an opportunity for resonance and effective communication.

Dr. Dennis or another NRG, INC Narrative Identity Professor (NIP) will guide this half-day experientially rich program; a companion StoryPathing™ workbook will be included in this program.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: This workshop has the following learning objectives. At the conclusion of the workshop attendees will be able to:

• Examine formative moments in their lives (past, current, and possible future) and discover meaning-making experiences;
• Understand how skills, motives, and character/style influences personal identity;
• Acknowledge how formative, personally lived, experiences can be integrated into workplace storytelling;
• Understand how to tell one’s story to different audiences;
• Perform imagined variations of one’s story while maintaining the core story;
• Provide listeners an opportunity to participate in the storytelling exchange, creating a more conversational style of storytelling;
• Acknowledge when identity based stories need to be edited, evolved, or told differently based on audience responses.

PRESENTER: Dr. Dennis Rebelo, Executive Director, NARRATIVE RESEARCH GROUP Inc. & Asst. Professor of Technology, Leadership and Management, ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

TO UNDERSTAND AND SHARE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE AND INFORMATION BY PERFORMING ORIGINAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK. THIS CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES, INCLUDING FOR SUCH PURPOSES, THE MAKING OF DISTRIBUTION TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT QUALIFY AS EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 501(c)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, OR CORRESPONDING SECTION OF ANY FUTURE FEDERAL TAX CODE.