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Storytelling - Coggle Diagram
Storytelling
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The mountain
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First part sets the scene, followed by small challenges and rising action before a climactic conclusion.
e.g. tv series. each episode has ups and downs, all building up to a big finale
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Nested loops
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Most important story – the core of your message – in the centre and use the stories around it to elaborate or explain that central principle
First story you begin is last to finish, second story is second to last
e.g. a friend telling you about a wise person in their life, who taught them an important lesson. The first loops are your friend's story, the second loops are the wise person's story. At the centre is the important lesson.
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In media res
You begin your narrative in the heat of the action, before starting over at the beginning to explain how you got there
Dropping audience right into the most exciting part engages them from the beginning to end to find out what happens.
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Converging ideas
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Useful to show the birth of a movement. Or explain how a single idea was the culmination of several great minds working towards one goal.
Similar to the nested loops, but rather it can show how several equally important stories came to a single strong conclusion.
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False start
You begin to tell a seemingly predictable story, before unexpectedly disrupting it and beginning it over again. You lure your audience into a false sense of security, and then shock them by turning the tables
Great for talking about a time that you failed and were forced to 'go back to the start' and reassess. For talking about the lessons from that experience. Or the innovative way that you solved your problem.
Quick attention hack. Will disrupt your audience's expectations and surprise them into paying closer attention to your message
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Petal structure
For organising multiple speakers/stories around a central concept. Useful with several unconnected stories/things you want tell/reveal – that all relate back to a single message.
You tell them one by one before returning back to the centre. They can overlap as one introduces the next but each should be a complete narrative in itself.
By showing your audience how the stories are related, you show them the true importance and weight of your message.
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