1. An absurd idea: an educational series on storytelling
2. What's the "so what?"
3. Telling different kinds of stories
4. The key: getting to the listener's story
     To be continued....

The art of possibility

1. Enrolling people in a vision
2. Relationships and conversations
3. Rule number six
4. The voice in the head
5. Giving everyone an A
6. The downward spiral
7. Making others powerful
8. Shining eyes
9. Life is great!

What is it about a good story that makes us listen, laugh, participate, and learn? What is it about a good story that makes us want to share our own? We need more good stories. We need more good storytellers. We have learned to recognize the art of a different kind of narrative, a different kind of learning. And it is not really new; it is actually the oldest way of learning there is. Although we can tell people what they might learn this week and preach lessons, offer analysis, and invent new jargon‹when we are invited to discover a lesson within a narrative of a good story, we tend to remember the lesson precisely because the lessons are told within a story.

The best teachers and leaders are good storytellers. Real People, Real Stories is a new series, created by Groh Productions, which is built on experiencing and discovering the people and the stories that celebrate transformation, change, and learning. These stories create new kinds of conversations and experiences. Most of all, these stories invite us to reflect, learn, and experience the lesson precisely because they make us think about our own stories. We can invent any future that we can dream, because life is a story we invent as we go. We all have a story to tell. This series explores the storytellers who invite us to share them.

Groh Productions, Inc. with Katalina Groh, Executive Producer

Katalina Groh has written, produced, and directed documentaries and independent feature films for the past ten years. As Senior Producer, she helped launch New World entertainment's educational division, New World Knowledge, where she developed, co-wrote, and produced award-winning educational programming. Her research at New World began to focus more on adult learning, new narrative structures for educational programs, and the development of new models for content structure that would create new conversations and experiences.