Objectives & Hopes

This blog is an offering, an experiment, and a desire.

I’ve been attending to our storied lives in my work, in my personal life, and in my personal writing for some time. I am writing this blog to improve my ability to express what I have learned, in my consulting practice, and in my personal practice, about the central role of storying in our lives. Our storying is our gift, our far-extended senses, and our storying is the source of most of what we call problems.

My Objectives and Hopes are:

  1. To spread and grow insight into our storied lives
  2. To stir discussion about our storied lives
  3. To accumulate more understanding
  4. To test and grow my capacity to express what I am seeing
  5. To stimulate community around our storied experience
  6. To teach how centrally valuable the practice of storying is in our mental, individual, and societal selves.

Possibilities

Where there is interest in Our Storied Lives, or in Problem Resolution through Story Resolution, I am open to opportunities for:

1. Giving talks on our storied lives topics

2. Problem resolution consulting contracts: technical, organizational, or individual (See: About Author for more information about my consulting background)

3. Finding an interested book publisher to support me in writing one or more books on our storied lives applied to:

  1. Community/group/organizational problem resolution
  2. Personal problem resolution through story resolution
  3. How we can nurture Longstories for: personal, community, national, and global health and growth

4. Participation and/or Grants for building a project to accumulate distill and synthesize a Global Shared Longstory. A Global Shared Longstory would be a broad narrative about our aspirations for empathic relationship with current and far future life.

A meaningful Global Shared Longstory would need to resonate deeply across national, religious, ethic, and cultural boundaries. It would need to be moving and obvious enough to stimulate momentum to change our world narrative away from the competitive, and toward the cooperative. I would be excited to gain a grant to engage such a project. (See Longstory blog category for more details expressed in blogs, and see About Author to understand my approach)

You can contact me at: david (dot) storytalk (at) storyresolution (dot) org