Storytelling Symposium: Composing Your Story

Storytelling Symposium: Composing Your Story

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ABOUT | Storytelling Symposium: Composing Your Story

"Stories constitute the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal." - Dr. Howard Gardner, professor at Harvard University

"Inside each of us is a natural-born storyteller, waiting to be released." - Robin Moore, author

Stories are the most effective way to persuade audiences to join your cause. Whether you need funds, volunteers, policy changes, or votes, a story is the most powerful way to build empathy and move people into action.

Abortion advocates have created activist projects based entirely on storytelling (WeTestify, Shout Your Abortion) and the benefit from media eager to amplify their voices. Leadership Institute is joining with Secular Pro-Life and Abortion Survivors' Network to teach pro-lifers how to raise our voices in response. 

The Storytelling Symposium is for pro-life leaders, activists, policymakers, fundraisers, and anyone who has a story to tell.  

Engage with communications experts and real-world storytellers as they explore the art of impactful narrative, including examples of both good and bad storytelling. Explore how to identify, prepare, and protect storytellers in your organization. Learn how to tell your own story effectively.

The Storytelling Symposium will include five 90-minute Zoom sessions on Tuesday evenings in January and February, as well as a single, full-day hybrid workshop (in-person and online) in Arlington, Virginia, (timed to coincide with the March for Life).  

Register now to receive links for all the sessions and to have the option to attend the full-day, in-person workshop.

Upcoming Trainings:

January 6, Webinar

Storytelling Symposium Webinar: Why Stories are Important and How to Prepare Great Speakers

January 13, Webinar 

Storytelling Symposium: The Psychology Behind a Persuasive Story 

A link to watch this session will be sent upon registration.  

January 20, In Person and Webinar 

Storytelling Symposium: Composing Your Story

A link to watch this session will be sent upon registration.  

January 21, In-Person and Webinar

Storytelling Symposium: Practicing Stories

A link to watch this session will be sent upon registration.  

January 27, Webinar

Storytelling Symposium: How To Use Your Story & What To Do If Your Story Blows Up

A link to watch this session will be sent upon registration. 

Additional topics and sessions may be added in March.

Register on this page to receive the links to all the webinars, and choose in-person or online attendance on January 22. In-person attendees can also choose to stay in the Leadership Institute dorms.  

Why should we learn how to be better storytellers? Because stories win.  

“Anyone who wants to win owes it to their cause to learn how.”

- Morton Blackwell