1. What do you think is happening here?

2. Who is this? Marchen (Fairy tales) Sagen ( Legends)

3. …or how about these The Last Kiss –J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers; 1964 –Pearl Jam; 1998 So Happy Together –The Turtles; 1967 I Wanna Hold Your Hand –Beatles; 1963 The Song Remembers When –Trisha Yearwood; October 1993 Tell Me The Story Of Jesus I Love to Hear the Story

4. THEY ALL TELL A STORY!! WHAT IS THE COMMON THREAD?

5. Stories Ancient art of conveying events in words, images and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment. Shared in every culture since the beginning of time as a means of entertainment, education, preservation of culture or to instill moral values.

6. Other examples

7. Today’s stories

8. The Importance of Stories Is this a representation of your life? BIRTH DEATH Or is more like this Birth Death In All of This…There Lies Your Life’s Story

9. The Importance of Stories

10. How We Learn It’s your decision…you choose what you will learn, or you can just sit there and pretend because it’s what we have to do. Because your motivated to learn those things that will provide an “internal payoff” rather than an external one. The most memorable learning comes from personal experience, or by working with someone you the learner perceived to be knowledgeable and wise.

11. How We Learn We learn best by having our own experiences, or by reflecting on the experiences of others. –Pay attention to what’s happening or happened in the past. –Remember what was seen. –Must be physically and intellectually capable of mimicking the behavior. –Have the motivation or reinforcement to model it.

12. Examples

13. Stories Your story, is your story it empowers you. Stories create an environment of trust. Stories create a bond among those who hear them. Stories engage the mind. Stories have a unique ability to diffuse conflict and differences of opinion. Stories encode a lot of cultural information. Stories provide a way to learn from personal or vicarious experiences. Stories can be used as weapons. Stories can heal.

14. …What’s the Point? Why should I care? Because it makes sense for me to do so! –You influence each other everyday by the actions you take and the stories you tell. Examples Everyday, you live a new story. The key from a safety man’s perspective…

17. The Trail

18. Forrest Gump: I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both. My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." from: Forrest Gump (1994)Forrest Gump