Youthway on the MBTA
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Elements of Story
Conflict
Characters
Show Don’t Tell Images & Symbols
Foreshadowing
(Underlying Assumptions)
Narrative Power Analysis
Changing the Stories: not what people don’t know, but what they do know =FILTERS
Examining Dominant Stories in US Culture
Power shapes Point of View of the story
Stories can Normalize Power/Universalize Experience
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Meme“A unit of self replicating cultural information”
Contagious ideas, stories, images, and rituals that spread fromimagination to imagination, generation to generation, shaping andshifting human cultures…
a capsule for a story to spread…
Frame:
The larger story that shapes understanding ofinformation, experiences, and messages; the structureand boundaries of a narrative that defines point-of-viewand power. Frames operate is pre-existing narrativelenses in our minds.
A call to innovation…
o Facing the Slow-Motion Apocalypse
o Harnessing psychic breaks
o Towards Ecological Justice…