Persuasive Storytelling
Persuasive Storytelling: An Oratory Training Lab Today’s neuroscientists confirm what ancient storytellers knew all along: the human mind is hard-wired to absorb and recall vivid narrative. Because stories engage emotion, they are the most powerful tool we have for capturing attention and inspiring action. This is why storytelling is critical to success in business, politics, advocacy, education, and everyday life. In this immersive training experience, we’ll practice the rhetorical arts of pitching, advocating, and interviewing. Our primary focus will be on delivery; how we use the voice and body to captivate an audience and move them to respond. This includes the use of a variety of mind-body techniques to transform performance anxiety into performance energy. Each week, in addition to the 75-minute class meeting, there will be four 25-minute “home workout” assignments, for a total of 3 hours per week, including homework. Half-credit course. This course meets the Transformation Skills Requirement of the Conflict Transformation Academic Cluster.
Persuasive Storytelling: An Oratory Training Lab Today’s neuroscientists confirm what ancient storytellers knew all along: the human mind is hard-wired to absorb and recall vivid narrative. Because stories engage emotion, they are the most powerful tool we have for capturing attention and inspiring action. This is why storytelling is critical to success in business, politics, advocacy, education, and everyday life. In this immersive training experience, we’ll practice the rhetorical arts of pitching, advocating, and interviewing. Our primary focus will be on delivery; how we use the voice and …Read more
The course was both fun and interesting, despite the almost daily homework. The skills learned really help improve one's ability to public speak. Daily assignments are not too difficult, just a log and a video recording.
This class is fun and easy but we have homework almost everyday for it. The homework is locked until the day it's due but it takes like 10 minutes total to complete. Honestly, it's a very fun class and i feel more confident in my speaking skills!
This course was very helpful for my public speaking skills and really improved my confidence and articulation! The homework every day was to write a log and film a speech/story which sometimes was tedious but overall helped my skills improve a lot.
I wanted to improve my public speaking skills, and this is the perfect class for that. Ben is super accommodating and he made the class really fun. Would definitely recommend! Got to genuinely know my peers as well.