storyfarm.canada

  We continue to develop a manageable storytelling model to build relationships and support for pro-social endeavours. Manageability is key. There cannot be too much work at any of the points of transfer to bring stories to life and pulse them out to interested recipients. Evidence of Activity - this is the results of doing - of making headway, of encountering a problem, of problem solving, and moving (forward, sideways, backward) again. Activity is powered by our beliefs, our values, our interests, our desires. Activity is the result of taking action in some way - talking, creating, re-creating, deconstructing, constructing. Evidence is the capture of activity as tangible artefact - a video, photograph, drawing, notes, diagram, design. Evidence of activity shows others the results of our taking action in pursuit of furthering our investment, it is evidence of broadening our perspectives and deepening our understanding. We share our evidence of activity to let others know what we a...

  BTS - Behind the Scenes Making Of - the story of the making of Many of us are working in a state of 'irrational persistence' to bring our vision of expanding human imaginative capacity to life. We call this state irrational persistence because there is no obvious path to monetize our work, but the importance of the work compels us to make the effort to bring the work to life. A vision to expand human imaginative capacity, by its nature, is not going to fit well-trod paths for capitalization or cashflow. However, our inspiration guiding our irrational persistence indicates the need for us to work to expand our human imaginative capacity. When we share our work in progress, we share the processes of bringing our irrational persistence to fruition. Our sharing, in turn, increases our collective imaginative capacity to implement other's visions of irrational persistence, and, consequently, increase our overall collective capacity to for visioning, imagining, implementing and ...

What is the significance of contemporaneous notes and how can they impact our thoughtful knowing 'the next right thing' to do? We are continuously processing sensations from our perceptions of the world. It doesn't matter if we are asleep or awake, it doesn't matter if we are 'paying attention' or distracted. Our sensations of our experiences are processing below the experiences that specifically come to consciousness. We experience more sensations of the world than we are able to bring to consciousness. What comes to consciousness are experiences that are so impactful that we make the cognitive and mental effort to put those experiences into words - first to ourselves, and later, if warranted, to others. The point is that it takes effort to put our experiences into words, and there are many experiences we process at a subconscious level that don't reach the level of significance to require conscious processing. Contemporaneous note-taking provides a real-ti...

storyfarm.canada is a storytelling initiative that has been in development since 2007. The efficacy of storyfarm's approach was discovered during a literature review investigating mentoring, co-mentoring and distributed leadership. The storyfarm model was tested and proven in a two-year teacher education program from 2007 to 2009. storyfarm.canada applies a theoretical approach drawing from cognitive science, cultural studies and design-based learning. Our cognitive approach to cultural formation and learning is based on the theory of embodied minds. This theory connects our day to day experiences with the formation and re-formation of neural networks and cognition (what we think and how we feel about what we are thinking).  Our cultural approach is based on the idea of social constructivism, that is, our social relationships are in continuous processes of forming and reforming in the context of the kinds of communicative experiences we share, the situations within which these comm...