To draw someone's story
is to engage in a deeply respectful conversation
Story Hui is a process for change-makers, - for people working on real issues that matter to real people. It's an old way to have new conversations.
One of the biggest challenges facing every parent, coach or educator is how to tell the full story of a learner's special abilities and personal successes. Similarly, we need to be able to recognise our own strengths and potential.
If the only tools available are criterion-based this can be a challenge. We sometimes find ourselves so entangled in checklists and testing that we end up not being able to see the wood for the trees and selling those in our care short.
Learners of all ages are achieving remarkable things, often using digital technologies. Yet much of the work in collaborative spaces and in real world contexts sits outside the scope of traditional testing.
With a fundamental shift happening in classrooms - and in lifelong learning - we need to be able to recognise and support the development of inquiring minds. Michael Fullan tells us that to 'measure' new learning we need a whole new mind frame - a mind frame that works backwards and has a lot more to do with observing and noticing.
Story Hui does this using a visual literacy - simple drawing - and in this way, accesses and makes visible the powerful field of personal skills, strengths and capabilities. Story speaks to us at a deeper level, valuing and respecting many different ways of knowing, being and learning.
One of the biggest challenges facing every parent, coach or educator is how to tell the full story of a learner's special abilities and personal successes. Similarly, we need to be able to recognise our own strengths and potential.
If the only tools available are criterion-based this can be a challenge. We sometimes find ourselves so entangled in checklists and testing that we end up not being able to see the wood for the trees and selling those in our care short.
Learners of all ages are achieving remarkable things, often using digital technologies. Yet much of the work in collaborative spaces and in real world contexts sits outside the scope of traditional testing.
With a fundamental shift happening in classrooms - and in lifelong learning - we need to be able to recognise and support the development of inquiring minds. Michael Fullan tells us that to 'measure' new learning we need a whole new mind frame - a mind frame that works backwards and has a lot more to do with observing and noticing.
Story Hui does this using a visual literacy - simple drawing - and in this way, accesses and makes visible the powerful field of personal skills, strengths and capabilities. Story speaks to us at a deeper level, valuing and respecting many different ways of knowing, being and learning.
I’m Liz Stevenson and I'm constantly amazed at what is being achieved when we deeply listen to other people's stories. I’ve worked with drawn narrative in the areas of health, education and creative design and developed the Story Hui methodology for my PhD research.
