Storytelling Workshop

Description

You might have learned along life’s road that stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, much like those five paragraph essays children are taught to write at school.

Yet, agricultural stories often move through time much differently. Non-linear storytelling is presently understood as a valuable part of rural culture.

Rural stories encourage active listening, emphasize place, and require a greater body of contextual information to interpret. Therefore, they offer practical tools for any operation—no talent required.

Understanding storytelling not as an art but as a skillset encourages profitability, sustainability, and long-term efficacy in agricultural spaces.

The Write Latch Storytelling Workshop offers today’s agriculturalist actionable ways to make practical tools from elements of non-linear storytelling and leverage their inputs.

This will benefit you if:

• You heard that sorting cattle can be a positive experience.
• You’ve spent years trying to figure out how Grandpa and Grandma told the story of the Blizzard of ’55.
• You’re after the tools to reframe—or embrace—those hours spent on your cell phone.
• You hope to be more effective when outlining directions in the field.
• You think about setting goals and making to-do lists, but time is in short supply.