#8 Communicating Through Story w/ Clare Murphy

From main-stage theaters to medieval round-towers Clare has been
a professional storyteller for 14 years now. She has performed in
more than 20 countries, telling stories for all kinds of
audiences. Her performances include shows such as “The King of
Lies,” political folkloric shows set, and playful pieces which
explore where quantum physics, philosophy and mythology meet.


From storytelling for the President of Ireland to performing at
the Writers room of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Clare also
performs at festivals, art centers, universities, public and
private events, and she teaches for us at the MCTI.


But what Clare actually teaches is basic COMMUNICATION skills!!!


Our careers have an arc, our training events have an arc, our
more acute missions have an arc, briefings have an arc, the
books, and the films we love are based on a well structured story
arc, and all of our communications are in pursuit of as much
common understanding as possible, or else are we really a
high-performing team?


We, of course, talk about Clare's background, but we also
discuss:


speaking in technicolor

building context

stories that go nowhere...that never get resolved

communicating to one person in order to talk to everyone,
rather than talking to everyone which has you talking to no one

getting a team's brain out in the open for everyone to learn
from collective experience (we say we want to be a high
performing team, not a group of high performing individuals)

burning down libraries

origin stories

discovering what right looks like

embedding images of high performance



Clare Murphy, Irish-born Storyteller


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