Storytelling as a form of evaluating behaviour change

Topic:    Storytelling as a form of evaluating change behaviour

Leader:    Lisa Keedle
Participants:    Many !

Key Points:
•    Storytelling can be in narrative or anecdotal process
•    DSE fire have used it as a debrief for recent fire season – same participants had trouble “storytelling” (adapting to change in debrief method)
•    To help use stories as data, sifting process allow for “themes” to come out of process for evaluation
•    Storytelling can be used as a tool and measure in behaviour change
•    Is storytelling really that different from one on one interview or focus groups?
•    How can we place storytelling with statistics?
•    Need to have storytelling throughout project – ongoing evaluation

•    Obama campaign used narrative / conversation
– self         )
– group     )    used by local people to spread
– now        )    questions / stories

•    Need to record failures and successes as part evaluation
•    Storytelling is significant to tellers of their story – individual learning and recognition can come from storytelling
•    Self story / narrative – Terese Riley – Penny Hall – Prof Stuart Hill – purposeful lying ??
•    Narrative analysis –
–    anecdotal
–    used debrief DSE – begin / middle end – challenge, choice, outcome
–    personal stories have / give credibility
–    anecdotal circle
–    digital storytelling, ………………..    ?????  children

•    How is it different from focus group – case study
•    Stories resonate with people
•    Sift stories – the story that resonates the greatest in the group
•    Significant – significant for you? – for the people for the storyteller?
•    Conversation – interview – action tool – Barack Obama / self / grip / now
–    measure of change
–    measure of of tools / behaviour change
–    could develop measures

•    Use community to help
•    Social element
•    Not the only way to evaluate change
•    Start process at beginning
•    Stats v’s story ??
•    Recording failures and successes
•    How can we allow for change / wave of change
•    Evaluation and transference of story experience

     
| May 10th, 2010 | Posted in Open Space Session |

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