own your story: the power of storytelling
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Own Your Story: The Power of Storytelling
OWN MY POWER
2011 Youth Organizing SummitSierra Health Foundation's Grizzly Creek Ranch
September 16th - 18th • Portola, Ca
By
Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda
Pineda Foundation for Youth/World ENABLED
A Story About Cody
• I hate Physical Education
• Cody was in my PE class
• Cody was a bully
Self Respect
• Who am I?
• What do I like?
• What am I good at?
• What do people like about me?
• What goals do I have for the future, and
what plan to I have to achieve them?
Self Presentation
• How do I interact with others?
• How do others interact with me?
Why do we like Stories?
• We like stories because:
• We are connected with the
characters
• We care about the story
• We want to see the resolution
It’s Your Life
• Ed Robert’s Story
• Being a movie star!
• Only movie stars get this kind of
attention.
It’s Your Movie
• You’re the actor
• You’re the director
• You’re even the producer
• SOON YOU’LL LEARN TO WRITE YOUR
STORY!
Why write a story?
• First think: Why and How are Stories
Produced?
• Share stories that support positive
individual and collective change
Core Values and Principles
• Everyone has many powerful stories to tell.
– Sharing insights experiences is valuable to
those who speak and to those who witness
stories
– People who think they are uninteresting or
unmemorable possess beneath this mask a
vivid, complex, and rich body of stories waiting
to be told.Center for Digital Storytelling, Values and Principles, http://www.storycenter.org/principles.html
Listening is hard
• Most people are either too distracted,
too impatient to be really good
listeners.
• Listening allows storytellers to
journey into the matter at hand.
Perceiving our World• People see, hear and perceive the
world differently
• Forms and approaches are also
different.
• Maps, frameworks, possibilities in
storytelling abound, find one that’s
right for you.
Creativity
• Creative activity is human activity
• We make music, draw, dance and tell stories
• Sometimes we are told to hide our talents and
feel inadequate
• Encourage people in artistic expression
• Inspire individuals and communities to
transform
Technology
• Assistive tools for creativity
– I-Phone, I-Pad, I-Brain
• But only tools, we must use them
thoughtfully to express our stories in
the most powerful ways
Sharing Stories for Change
• Sharing Stories can lead to positive change
• Supporting groups to make media is one step
• Reflection and modifying behavior, treating
others differently, more compassion
• Speak about social justice, get involved!
• Sharing stories gives you the power to make a
real difference!
A Story about Leadership
• It’s About Ability – An Explanation on
the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities
Sacred Storytelling
Epic Storytelling
http://parablestoday.com/
Survival Storytelling
http://parablestoday.com/
Stories through Dance
http://parablestoday.com/
Family Stories
http://parablestoday.com/
Community or Tribal Stories
http://parablestoday.com/
Stories with a Mission
http://parablestoday.com/
Writing Time: Free-Writing
• The moment when ……….happened, I changed.
• I feel stronger when I am with....
• I feel most comfortable with……
• Others think I am a ……
• My community outside of school is ……,My community
inside school is …
• I identify myself as a …..
• I live between two or more cultures….
• When I look in the mirror I see….
Writing Time: Core Message
• Write a 25-word autobiography in 3
minutes.
• Keep 10 of those words that define you.
• Only keep 5 of those words.
• Arrange those words 3 times to form a
short poem.
CAPE, the Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment
• Abuse of people with disabilities and elders creates a significant barrier to independent living and
full integration into the community. To reduce the incidence of abuse, WID created this
comprehensive training curriculum in English and Spanish to educate people with disabilities,
services providers, and family members about abuse awareness and prevention strategies. CAPE
explores fundamental issues of abuse, best-practices training approaches, and personal stories of
resisting and recovering from abuse. CAPE focuses particularly on preventing abuse by anyone in a
“helping role,” including informal or paid assistants, family members, and services providers.
• With CAPE, WID is offering comprehensive empowerment and self-protection tools directly to
disabled people living independently. These tools include developing self-respect, asserting
boundaries, getting help, disclosing abuse, knowing one’s rights, learning self-advocacy skills,
practicing safety planning, and building resilience. These are the “CAPE-abilities” that can interrupt
and prevent abusive behavior and help those recover who have experienced abuse. CAPE is unique
in its focus on peer support in abuse prevention and its multimedia format, based on proven
educational theory and practice. CAPE uses attractive, motivating multimedia educational
resources relevant to daily life, such as movies, quizzes, learning games, comic-book images, and
stories by and about people with disabilities.
It’s Our Story: Understanding Disability
History and Disability Pride
•Scott Cooper & The Victor Pineda Foundation
Take a look at what people with disabilities from YOUR generation are doing (link)
Lots of pride, lots of strength, lots of talent, lots of power
Martin Luther King, Jr.About 13% of Americansare black
Martin Luther King, Jr.About 13% of Americansare black
Harvey MilkAbout 10% of Americansare homosexual
Martin Luther King, Jr.About 13% of Americansare black
Harvey MilkAbout 10% of Americansare homosexual
Martin Luther King, Jr.About 13% of Americansare black
Harvey MilkAbout 10% of Americansare homosexual
Martin Luther King, Jr.About 13% of Americansare black
Ed RobertsAbout 20% of Americanslive with a disability
“It’s Just Us”
by Eric Clow
(link)
The Story of the Disability Rights
Movement hasn’t spread enough!
Keep our stories alive.
So we’ve worked to collect the stories
The “It’s Our Story” Online Database
EXPLOREWitness the Experience
• Every piece of media in our
archives online, fully
transcribed, fully
searchable
• Capitalizing on latest
advances in video
archiving, library science,
server technology
ENHANCEUpload Your Insights
• Users can upload video/written
responses to items in our online
database
• Turns history into a dialogue
ENABLECreate a Story
• Online, free, and public
video editor program
• Allows editors access to
all of our media
• Empowers anyone,
anywhere, to author
their own tellings of the
history of the disability
community
ENGAGEShare Your Perspectives
• Easily publish your videos and writings on
social networking sites
• Reach a global audience with the click of a
button
• Here’s what our website will make possible
An example of what this site will make possible:“It’s Our Story” trailer
So how do you fit into the picture?
Get Involved• Volunteer a few hours a week online or at
our office in Berkeley or from home!
• Spend summer 2012 with “It’s Our
Story”
• Three distinct career tracks:✦Entrepreneurial: form and manage partnerships with
business, foundations, and government sectors
✦Creative Innovation: develop visual/video content, design
and build cutting-edge online tools
✦Community: build bridges with schools, organizations;
coordinate disability awareness events
Victor Santiago PinedaAnd
Scott Cooperwww.itsourstory.org