Grooming a Story

Jim Morrison March 5, 2020

Why are some stories powerful, while others fall flat? Jim encourages us to tell stories with economy, empathy, universality, and tension–and offers plenty of example stories.

This excerpt was taken from a longer talk, Stories that Teach presented at Western Fellowship Teachers’ Institute 2019.

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