Welcome to the Storycatcher Network
TRY THESE THINGS TODAY
They're easy, portable,
and free:
Learn what a storycatcher is, and does. Read this page, and this page, and this one too.
Download our Storycatching Tip Sheet and practice on your own in the grocery line, at the dinner table, in the office.
Read and comment on our story blog, where we catch stories on the fly and share them.
Share your stories with our storycatcher community by using excerpts from the book Storycatcher as prompts.
Don't have your own copy of Storycatcher yet? Get one!
Join the Storycatcher network!
Storycatching is the shortest distance between two people.
- Storycatching is like playing with an invisible ball—first I tell you a story about the time when I... and you catch it: you listen.
- And then you tell me a story and the time when you... and I catch it: I listen.
- Maybe it’s all over when we leave the elevator, step out of the coffee line, get off the bus... but we proceed with more confidence, with something to think about, something to share with the next person.
Story creates community, and communities always create stories!
- Just a tiny bit of social effort can break through isolation, dissipate tension, and create a sense of community.
- People need community—really!—we do: community = safety.
- When neighbors know a bit of each other’s stories, they cooperate more fully, share goods and services, help each other in crises, and experience a sense of belonging in the places where they live, work, worship, and recreate.
Storycatching is fun—our original entertainment.
- For most of human history, another person was the only source of entertainment.
- People carried stories from place to place to provide introduction, insight, pass along learning.
- Now, we have lots of media that entertains us, but still people love to just sit around the table and tell/listen to stories. It’s called reunion.
Storycatching is discovery—we learn when we make meaningful stories out of events.
- We turn life experience into story and then we live with the story of what happened.
- Story gives us power to learn to see events as moments of tremendous teaching that pass through our lives.
- Understanding that we can remain true to our histories, and shift meaning is the single most freeing capacity we have.
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