SMART Volunteering-Storytelling Guide

-20- Storytelling Mingle Target group : Adult learners Objectives : Boosts the flow of life stories by inspiring each other. Awakens the urge to tell and shows how many stories you have in your own life. Strengthens group cohesion Material : Paper, pencils, tape Shape : Free space, no tables Duration : 30 - 60 minutes Content and procedure : 1. The storyteller tells an unassuming anecdote from his/her own life, as an example. 2. All participants get a paper and a piece of tape. Everyone divides their own paper into four sections. On each one, they write a title referring to an event in their own life. No one should be forced to find a story for all four, but conversely if someone has more than four stories they may have more pieces of paper for all the titles. 3. Participants tape the titles to their chest. Then they start mingling. Everyone moves slowly around the room. They greet each other in pairs, read each other’s titles, select one and ask to hear the story. When both have told their stories, they thank each other, without commenting on the story and find new partners. 4. If someone is asked to tell the same story too often, they can put their hand over that one when a new partner is browsing their titles.