• STEP 1:  Positivity for Possibility

• Content - Benefits - broader perspective, challenges, contagion (Why) . Negativity Bias and Positivity Ratios. (How)
• Sample Games – Story Builderz, Partnesia, Groupie RPS, 5 Things
• Discussion (Partners/Group Share) – How can you apply the positivity ratios to prime your audience into a positive mindset?

STEP 2:  Thinking About the Audience

• Content – Identifying the CCI’s (capacities, concerns and interests) of your audience, & how those are different from the speaker’s CCI’s
• Sample Games – Changing Places/Near-Far, Interesting Email, My Story, Quintriplets (common/differences)
• Discussion/Tools (Group Share) – If I were them…(If you were your audience, what would be your capacities, concerns, and interests?). Relevant stories?

STEP 3: Getting Audience to Listen

• Content – Framing: Tell people why and how they should listen to what you’re about to say. Uncertainty makes it difficult/impossible to focus
• Sample Games: Story Half Life, Headlines, Swedish Storytelling, The Translator, Snapshotz, Improv PPT
• Discussion/Tools (Group Share)– Framing/Doorbell Tool. What is your story’s ‘Why’ or headline? Listener's barriers to remove?

STEP 4:  Helping Audience Understand

• Content – Speaker brain vs audience brain. How to make it “real” for the audience using sense experience and relevant examples
• Sample Games - 3 Corner Story, Show & Tell, WGAA (TV Informercials), Rumors
• Discussion/Tools (Group Share) – ‘Wish You Were Here’ - Describe your sense experience/relevant examples. Where/when can you use storytelling @ work?