Who is your audience? What do they want?

What inspired you to start your business?

How developed is your business? An idea, a start up, a one-man show? Staffed, scaled, funded, branded?

What steps are you following to launch or grow your business? What do you envision as the end goal?

What is your primary goal for learning how to tell the story of your business?

What obstacles do you want your story to overcome?

Where and how do you intend to use the story of your business?

Whether you’re selling a product, pitching to your investors, training new staff or networking, learn how to use the power of story to stand out and inspire your audiences to act.

The Instructors:

Narativ corporate trainers have worked with global Fortune 500 financial and media companies, small and mid-size businesses, entrepreneurs, internet-based businesses, including The Walt Disney Corporation, UNICEF, NY Habitat and The HighGate Hotel Group.

The Take Aways:

• A “how to” methodology with replicable tools to craft and tell stories
necessary for the expansion of your business
• A recording and transcript of your business story to use for your
marketing materials
• Detailed and personalized feedback from experienced Narativ corporate
trainers
• Skills to differentiate yourself and connect to your various audiences
• 30-minute individual phone coaching session following the workshop
• As a workshop participant, you’ll have access to our exclusive webpage for entrepreneurs, which includes videos of entrepreneurial stories, updates on participants, webinars on various topics and interviews with entrepreneurs on the story of their business, from how they tell it to how it’s changed since the beginning.

The Follow Up:

As your business changes and grows, whether adding new staff or launching a new product or rebranding, your story will change as well. Narativ can help you articulate, shape and tell your story with our series of follow up programs:

- Training workshops
Register your staff in a training workshop to connect them to your company’s story and mission.

- Year End Reviews
Learn how to tell the story of a year in your company’s life, whether a good
or bad one, to connect to and prepare your audience for your company’s next step. Narativ will help you look back and articulate the past in order for you to inspire support for the future.

- Launching Stories
Learn how to tell the story of a new product and relate the new product to
your original story. Narativ will help you launch a new product or design
or idea while relating the new story to the old.

- Testimonials as Stories
Learn how to craft the stories of your customers, staff and investors to
help people connect to and understand your products and brand. Narativ will interview a select number of customers or investors or key staff members to craft their testimonials as compelling stories for your website and marketing materials.

*When you register, you will be asked a series of questions designed to personalize your experience. You can check the questions out here.

Location: Capsule Studio – 873 Broadway # 204, New York, New York 10003

Price: $1,000

Limited to 12 participants.

Call or email Jerome Deroy at 646 623 3710 for more information.

$15 tickets, go to SmartTix

Students use tbgstu discount code for $10 tickets.

Or, call 212 868 4444 or go to Barrow Group Theater box office on May 9th.

Time: May 9, 2011 at 7:30pm

Location: The Barrow Group Theater (NOTE — this is not the same as Barrow Street Theater downtown) 312 W. 36th St (between 8th + 9th Avenue), 3rd floor

To celebrate the beginning of springtime after a tumultuous winter, we are offering a unique opportunity to build your presentation skills and differentiate yourself through storytelling.

Whether you are working on your professional story for career enhancement, your business story for leadership and entrepreneurial success, or shaping your stories in art (film, book, or live performance), this package is designed to give you the tools to succeed.

Start with our introductory workshop on March 13th or April 10th to learn Narativ’s proven methodology then follow that up with our 6-week Master Class to learn to excavate, develop and perform your stories.

Our 6-week Master Class is led by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Murray Nossel, PhD, founder and director of Narativ.

Details:

Narativ Storytelling Workshop: March 13th, 2011 or April 10th, 2011 from 10am to 5pm at 320 Studios: 20 West 37th street, 14th floor, between 8th and 9th Avenues, NY, NY 10018

Narativ Storytelling Master Class: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6pm to 8:30pm on May 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, 31, June 2, 7, 9.

Purchase tickets here.

Refer a friend and receive an additional 20% discount — and they do too!

Enrollment: 13

Location:  320 Studios: 20 West 37th street, 14th floor, between 8th and 9th Avenues, NY, NY 10018

March 3, 4, 5, 2011, 8pm: College Park, MD

Get tickets now for performances at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (University of Maryland).

In an amazingly short time, learn how to master your own storytelling ability and how to use that skill to have more impact in any part of your life, whether it be in business, creatively or socially.

About the workshop leaders:
…
Dan Milne, theatre director, actor, and communications coach. Director of TWO MEN TALKING, the acclaimed personal storytelling piece which has been performed worldwide, including the West End and currently off-Broadway. Whether it be with individuals, business clients or in theatre, Dan specialises in helping people to connect the mind to the body and to realise the power of their physical presence.

Jane Nash, has been an actor, writer and theatre maker for 30 years and a consultant in communication skills for the last 11 years. She works in the corporate sector and with private clients. The foundation of all her work is her belief in the transformational power of story – mythic, archetypal, personal.

Benefits of the workshop:

* CLEARLY AND CONFIDENTLY COMMUNICATE WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO

* BE INSPIRED BY YOUR OWN LIFE-STORY

* DISCOVER YOUR LIFE STORY AS A SOURCE OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Price: £160.00
20% DISCOUNT IF YOU BOOK BEFORE MARCH 1.
10% DISCOUNT IF YOU BOOK BEFORE MARCH 7.
+20% DISCOUNT IF YOU REFER A FRIEND.

Please call Dan Milne on 07977 429118 for more information or email dan@narativ.com or jane@narativ.com to register. You can also give us the details of people you think would be interested.

The workshop will be held from: 10.30am-5.30pm on Sunday, the 27th of March and will take place at The Oval House -  2 minutes walk from Oval tube station (Northern line 5 minutes from Waterloo).

Feedback from Narativ storytelling workshop participants in London:

“I felt more able to take control of my own story… It was great. I am going to recommend it to all my friends.”

“It was a great day. The trust was built very quickly between us all, it felt like a very safe place for me to experiment. The energy, passion and conviction of the Narativ team came across and really encouraged me.”