SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS AUDIENCE: TESTING! DOES THIS NEW LEARNING PROGRAMME APPEAL TO YOU?

Story Bridging is a new and important contribution to healing our divided, traumatised society, organisations, communities and families. 

We are contemplating offering a brand new self-directed, distance learning course on the topic in South Africa.

Please let me know after looking at the course outline your level of interest and likelihood of doing the course:  centserv@iafrica.com

Any other comments you may have will be most welcome.

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At the end of 2019 Graham Williams was requested by the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling to write a chapter for this work, to be published by World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd.

World Scientific are a prestigious organization who publish the Nobel speeches, text - books for Harvard, Princeton and Stanford universities, and quality encyclopedias. For the first time ever there will be an encyclopedia devoted to business storytelling. In meeting that request we (Graham and co-authors Steve Banhegyi and Terrence Gargiulo) greatly expanded the chapter into a book that fully describes the rationale for, explanation of, and detailed process for practical implementation of story-bridging at all levels – within, personal, community, organization, institution, and nation-state.

Our hope is that the over time the book reaches every eye, mind, heart, and spirit that will be blessed by it - everyone who wishes to embrace the challenge and discipline of building bridges instead of walls in our traumatized World. 

Now we are delighted to contemplate offering the first training course based on the book. A Professional Certified course (Self-directed, distance learning) estimated to take 15 hours to work through the material, reflections, exercises, video clips....

The Story Bridging book is the prescribed text - book for this course. A must-have reference for all story bridging practitioners.

Global Kindle version: https://amzn.to/3aJ8xWx

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We believe that you will get the most out of this self-directed learning programme if:

 

•       You follow the order in which the material is presented. (Of course, there is a natural tendency to jump ahead. Some that we know are very anxious to get to the application section as soon as possible so that they can quickly start practicing story bridging).  Patience will pay off

•       There is a lot of content and nuanced ideas. Pause often to digest and reflect on what you have learnt. Take frequent, short breaks (Getting immersed in too much material at any one time can overwhelm and confuse)

•       Devote as much time as you can to doing the exercise and discussing the material with others who are doing the course with you or are trusted advisers. Sometimes the best learning takes place “outside of the classroom”

•       Don’t fret if you don’t grasp something immediately. Leave that part and go back to it later. If something continues to elude or concern you, please be in touch with us, your presenters.

 

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Look at these objectives carefully. They cover knowledge, understanding, application of the story-bridging process, skills, and characteristics

Change the objectives to fit with what you want to get out of this course - Make them your own

Presenting this course, from South Africa, are Graham Williams and Steve Banhegyi. Both are authors, consult to organisations, coach, and are well known storytellers. Together they founded and run https://culturescan.biz

https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-williams-b5857b28

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebanhegyi/

 

Both Steve and Graham will be available to participants during the programme should there be any difficulties with any aspect of their self-directed learning.

Please let me know your interest in taking this course: centserv@iafrica.com