by Sarah Chauncey | Aug 16, 2016 | Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
Almost anyone can write. All it takes is an idea and a keyboard or pencil and notepad. That’s why there are approximately 200 million active blogs. But writing isn’t the same as storytelling. Writing communicates an idea or facts; it speaks to the intellect....
by Sarah Chauncey | Jul 9, 2016 | Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
Yesterday, the people behind the Wordnik Twitter account shared an article about how researchers at the University of Vermont have discovered that all stories follow one of six arcs. These are the arcs they identified by data-mining more than 1,700 novels: “Rags to...
by Sarah Chauncey | May 4, 2016 | Memoir, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling, Spirituality
The other day, I saw the above photo in my Facebook feed (photo © Kerry Dixon). “Transformation” is a nebulous word, kind of like “sustainability” was a decade ago. Few people identify their primary field as “transformation.” Rather, it crosses multiple sectors, from...
by Sarah Chauncey | May 3, 2016 | Resonant Storytelling, Spirituality, Writing
Transformation isn’t about words. Most of us who work in transformation research, write about or teach concepts that can only be fully understood as a direct experience. It’s about an experience that words can only point to. Yet words are what we have. For most of us,...
by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 9, 2015 | Creativity, Mindfulness, Resonant Storytelling
Novels, J.D. Salinger wrote, grow in the dark. By that, he meant that true creativity comes from the subconscious mind, from allowing ideas time to percolate below our conscious awareness. It’s not just novels, though, that spring forth from the subconscious mind. So...
