Be The Best You - Find The Wonder. Find The joy.

Hello You Fabulous folk!

Hope you have all had a great week!

This week has been a whole mix match of things for me - which I love! I was off in Preston on Thursday doing a gig to a fab group of CEOs, podcast recording and yesterday a rehearsal with the Improbotics troupe. Plus I have had a real chance to look at my new book - I have finished the first draft, had to take a moment to breathe and am now from next week on it!!

As promised each week I will be sharing the ways us adults play - (kids don’t need the list right!! )

Way of Playing Number 3!

Last week we were all about the comic - hope you loved the Victoria Wood clip!!

So number 3 in the 12 ways we play is… The Storyteller….
The Storyteller, those that love to engage through words and creating worlds through their words – these type of players enjoy taking people on journeys with them and creating new worlds of possibilities through their stories.

I am sure that you all love those that tell good stories - you may even be the story teller. Stories are at the heart of all things human, so even if you do not believe you are a story teller you are!!

One tip to share brilliant stories is to know this story telling tool..

Do you use colour or advance to tell your stories? A Colour storyteller use emotions, feelings to share their stories they add detail and texture to their stories. An advance story teller uses quick simple points to move the story on - they advance the story with not too many extra words!

Both are brilliant and useful - however when under pressure we really revert to type and if you are an advance storyteller and your audience are full of colour people you are missing engaging with them as brilliantly as you can do. This of course works the other way!

There are countless brilliant storytellers out and I love watching stories being shared on Moth. Here if you have not looked at Moth before is a fab story…

Over on the pod this week I was all by myself - its a proper personal one this week where I talk about Opening Up… I decided to record this short, quite punchy pod as I know that Opening Up is at the heart of really allowing yourself to really change how you feel, so you can really be your best you… love to know what you think.

This week your PLAY Challenge is to let yourself go deep in a story - go get yourself a brilliant book and be immersed into the world of story.

Find the Wonder. Find the Joy.

Hugs

Em

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