by Shannon Turner | Oct 5, 2021 | change, manifesting stories, transformative storytelling, workshops
In my curriculum where I teach people how to cultivate and tell their own stories, an approach I affectionately call, ‘The Story Sandwich,’ I always refer to the importance of finding the change in our storytelling. I call it the meat (or spicy tofu) of the sandwich. In workshops, I break out these two figures side-by-side and talk about that moment in English class when they would talk us about the “beginning-middle-end” of a story (blah-blah-blah), and especially “exposition-climax-denoument” (again: blah-blah-blah).
by Shannon Turner | Oct 1, 2021 | change, happy stories, life maps, manifesting stories, personal is political, personal narrative, transformative storytelling, workshops
Pittsburg: Past, Present, Future is an innovative, new storytelling project under the guidance of the Pittsburgh Community Market, which will culminate with a live, pop-up theatre at Pittsburgh Yards on Saturday, October 30 at 7:00p as a part of the ELEVATE Atlanta Arts Festival.
by Shannon Turner | Jul 15, 2021 | advocacy, change, empathy, GCDD Storytelling Project, life maps, transformative storytelling
The problem with the word abracadabra today is that people think it just means magic, which is something we tend not to believe in these days. I’m rather of the belief that speaking our truths into the world, and truly hearing the stories of others, rather takes some work, and then the magic happens…
by Shannon Turner | Mar 28, 2021 | Blog, Hidden Voices, podcasting, transformative storytelling
I’ve come to understand people are turning to me somewhat as a curator of “what to listen to.” In fact, one of my gym buddies (back in the day when going to the gym was a thing) turned to me and pointedly and said, “I think you should publish a regular Shannon Recommends listening list because I always have this instinct to call you when I want to find a new podcast.”
by Shannon Turner | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog, self-image, transformative storytelling, trauma, walks with grief
I like to call it metaphoritis. Artists of all disciplines see metaphors in literally everything. It’s a great opportunity to see the world in this way, to connect up seemingly disparate thoughts or events, to divine meaning in a found penny from a meaningful...
by Shannon Turner | Jun 19, 2019 | authenticity, Blog, change, happy stories, transformative storytelling, vulnerability, walks with grief
Around this time two years ago, I set off to tell some happy stories. I had just gone through a cycle of work involving grief, helping people tell some of their hardest stories, including the Virginia Tech residency and Trigger Warning. Coming out of that cycle, I was...
