Storytelling Workshop Activities

In Appreciative Interviews, participants tell each other stories about how they successfully faced a challenge and identify what made them successful. In less than an hour, a group can identify the conditions essential for its success. This structure generates momentum and insights for positive change, and shows that social support is key to success.

You can overcome the tendency of organizations to underinvest in social supports that generate success while overemphasizing financial support, time, and technical assistance.

It brings to life LS Principle #5, Practice Self-Discovery Within a Group.

Campfire leverages our natural storytelling tendencies by giving players a format and a space in which to share work stories—of trial and error, failure and success, competition, diplomacy, and teamwork. Campfire is useful not only because it acts as an informal training game, but also because it reveals commonalities in employee perception and experience.

With a series of prompts a surprising and amazing future is created.

Players complete the sentence "I could tell you a story about...", responding to the facilitator's prompt of the nature of the story. The story is not told as part of the exercise.

In pairs, participant A attempts to communicate the use and value of a modern-day object to participant B, who plays the role of someone from 500 years ago.

Build empathy by retelling someone's story.

Once upon a time... Every day... Until one day... And because of that... And because of that... And because of that... Until finally... And ever since then... And the moral of the story is...

message passed without checking to next person

The group tells made-up fortunes inspired by a random gif

Remembered objects are used to 'port' between memories 

A fun and interactive storytelling game that helps team members learn more about each other by guessing which colleague’s experience matches each story.