Truth: I’m at a 2-day seminar for women educators interested in leadership. It is being led by a dynamic current head of school who has made it her mission to help stock the pipeline with capable women who belong in international school leadership.
We’re talking about the power of storytelling. Strong stories, told well and with intent create connections. The premise makes sense. Neurological research suggests that our emotional responses to stories feed and change our social brain. Being inspired has physiological consequences.
Our stories matter. How we receive and process stories matter.
And I am stumped. Because I consider exactly this – storytelling – to be an area of weakness. It’s why I never try to retell a joke or describe a supposedly funny thing I did. I’m willing to read fiction but not create it. Even true stories from my life feel odd to relate. To think of a story that is of emotional heft for me that then bears out some truth about my larger message feels like a significant hurdle that shouldn’t be.
Which is why I have taken on the expense of coming here, of taking part, of learning from fresh voices. As I run through my mental files, searching for the story I might need or that might do the job, I keep coming up with a blank. Or with stories I can’t find a connecting thread to. This is the point: facing the challenge of not knowing, of feeling off-base. By tomorrow, something will emerge. And it will be the right thing because it will be what I have at the moment.
From there I can build.
Right this moment I don’t know what my story is. Or which story is mine. Tomorrow I’ll know. I can hardly wait.
edifiedlistener 
Hello Sherri. Whatever you want your aspirational stories to be your blog stories get attention, sustain interest and are engaging. My guess is that you could benefit from having a writing buddy who shares your passion for storytelling. In any case just keep on writing.
Here’s to that inner author that you want to be.
Uncle Thad
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