These are the notes I took from a presentation of Hannah B. Harvey, PHY, professional story teller from some education CDs called the great courses. These cds were dedicated to story telling.

• Ask yourself, what does your specific audience need from the story you want to tell.
• Usually you’re in a casual situation and with people you know.
• Your audience is in an intermit setting at the same eye level and at close proximity.
• You don’t have to project your audience so much, but still speak from the diaphragm.
• You may tell a story of your aunt Margaret and how she used to make a bunch of dollies.
• The first image that comes to your mind of the person you’re telling the story about is the same image you begin the story to have others relate to you.
• What did your aunt do that changed your life?
• In a conversations setting, you audience needs to share some common ground.
• It’s an interaction between you and you audience through dialog.
• You contribute through a continuing conversation.
• Stay aware of economy in the living room area. You want to invite others to contribute their story to the mix.
• If you’ve been taking for more than a min and a half, you’ve been talking too long.
• When someone else contributes, you have three choices: you can ignore, yield your story to their story, incorporate their comments or you incorporate their story into yours.
• An example of incarnation might be yes, that whole generation did doilies.

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