While I’m gathering up interviews for my blog series on Local Storytellers, I took a moment to do some research. Translation: I got sucked into the YouTube video vortex watching Storytelling. Donald Davis is considered by many to be among the best to tell stories. In this TEDx talk he did a few years ago, he talk about why he tells stories. Of course, he did it in a story. Also, there may still be time to catch him in Fincastle, VA this week end (http://www.soundsofthemountains.org/?fbclid=IwAR1fsFIvpDSLL7398ZOLVu9GkIA0680kNO_d70kbvpYx3jS6ArRdsYfw-0Q)  Enjoy!

TEDx Talk Dec 2014

Published by Nick Baskerville

After years of being an instructor in the military and the and the fire service, I realized I needed to improve my delivery. My students needed me to improve delivery. But how do I improve my delivery? Simple. I finally took a member of Toastmasters up on the invitation to come to a meeting. It wasn't long until I joined. Along the way of improving my skills at delivering a message, I came to understand that of all the ways to get a point across, telling stories is the best way to get it done. Around this time, another friend from Toastmasters told me about The Moth monthly story telling shows. What better way to test out my theories on storytelling. It's in my travels there to the shows that I found more and more shows, and classes, and events centered around storytelling. Despite how many people know about the storytelling world, not many people know about the storytelling world. So now, I'm out to tell the world about storytelling.

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  1. I took a storytelling workshop with Donald Davis at Omega Institute in 1992/93. I learned quite a bit from him and he also confirmed some of the things I had already discovered about audiences and what they’re looking for in a story. It’s great you’re featuring him on your blog, because he’s definitely one of the best in the oral tradition.

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