Course #1 - Telling Beautiful Stories to Create Narrative Change

 
 

Course #1 Telling Beautiful Stories to Create Narrative Change

  • 0:00​ - Course Intro

  • 5:58​ - Culture is everything

  • 8:13​ - Ecosystem Building

  • 10:16​ - Every org is now a digital organization

  • 11:14​ - Empowering creatives

  • 12:34​ - Stories are at the center of our lives

  • 13:56​ - Storytelling from below

  • 16:20​ - Framing

  • 24:45​ - Representation matters

  • 25:19​ - The Hero & Anti-Heros Journey

  • 26:50​ - Pixar's Rules of Storytelling

  • 28:45​ - Islamic Storytelling

  • 34:58​ - Malcolm X as Media Theorist

  • 36:55​ - Turning on Your Organization Switch for Storytelling

  • 37:47​ - Public Narrative - Marshal Ganz

  • 39:23​ - Elements of Story - Center for Story-Based Strategy

  • 41:10​ - The Battle of the Story

  • 42:03​ - Storytelling for Spiritual Impact

  • 46:25​ - Empowerment vs. Assimilationist Narratives

  • 47:50​ - Narrative Infrastructure

  • 51:55​ - Faith-Rooted Storytelling

  • 53:10​ - Halal Branding

  • 57:23​ - Demo Day Overview

Course #1 Reading & Watch List

Digital Media Course Reader (This content is not required reading, but content to take you much deeper into the world of digital media if you wish to go there).

13 Steps to Learn How to Think Like a Digital Media Publisher by Dustin Craun -  The idea for this course stems from this article 

Media New & Otherwise Course Syllabus by Roy Bahat - (MBA Course I took at the UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, one of the best overviews of the digital media industry anywhere)

The Landscape of Digital Media in 2017: A Curated Reading List for Founders and Investors by Dustin Craun  

Culture & Ecosystem Building

In this group challenge, kindergartners beat MBA’s every time.” by Daniel Coyle, author of The Culture Code 

TechStars' Brad Feld a Startup Community Needs a 20 Year Time Horizon - Knowledge @ Wharton 

Build a Successful Creative Culture with 7 Core Principles from Pixar

Lessons from Pixar - The Braintrust - Ameet Ranadive

Storytelling & Narrative

What Makes a Hero’s Journey (Video) by Matthew Winkler, TedED 

Introduction to Story-Based Strategy, the Center for Story-Based Strategy   

The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Sufism, Path & Present Podcast with Baraka Blue

Changing our Narrative about Narrative, by Rashad Robinson 

Transforming California from Red to Blue - How Community Organizing Changed the Political Landscape - Produced by Dustin Craun 

Good Books (If you want to go deeper) 

Story - Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Book) - Robert McKee

Startup Communities by Brad Feld 

Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmul 

Good Films on Media Production 

The Century of the Self - Adam Curtis 

Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018 Documentary about Mr. Rogers) 

Spielberg (HBO)

Walt Disney - American Experience Documentary