EFFECTIVE ADULT


BY JENNIE LEE-PACE, ALCOPRO


ach October, as leaves begin to blaze gold and ruby, storytelling artists from around the world gather at the International


Storytelling Festival in the small historical town of Jonesborough, Tennessee, to inspire and entertain their audiences through the art of narrative storytelling. As I looked around the room at the


audience in each performance, I was quickly struck by the average age of the atendees, most of whom were 50 and older—my generation. If we are all storytellers with personal experiences


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to share, then where were the younger atendees? I began to feel sad and worried about the future of narrative storytelling as an art form, but then the pragmatic marketer-side of me resolved that the next generation would no doubt take what exists in narrative form and elevate it to a newer level more in line with the experiences that beter resonate with their generation. What does storytelling have to do with


effective adult training strategies? Actually, the correlation is quite remarkable. Storytelling is the art of imparting an idea, knowledge, or experience to another


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