Imagine unveiling the opportunity for mutual learning, co-creation and tapping in to the greater collective intelligence when presenting or speaking in front of an audience and your customers at an event.
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How would you chose to develop and expand the potential to connect with your audience and customers to gather valuable insights and filter intel?
How do you go about building deeper relations with your audience and customers as a professional speaker when giving talks and delivering presentations at seminars or running workshops?
A new generation of online technology* which offers continuous releases of feature packed applications. All with the potential to increasingly enable speakers and presenters to take their presentations to new heights.
*”We are digitizing the physical and “physicalizing” the digital. Clear boundaries between the real and the virtual are dissolving”.
– How do we present ourselves in the realm of The Spatial Web?
APPLICATIONS | Milanote, Slides, Swipe, Canva, Google Slides, Slidebean, Mentimeter, Prezi and Typeform
Vital questions arise;
How do we get the most out of these technological innovations and advances to enact collective social forms?
How do we calibrate our narrative toward an open ended learning dialogue?
“The crisis of our time isn’t just a crisis of a single leader, organization, country, or conflict. The crisis of our time reveals the dying of an old social structure and way of thinking, an old way of institutionalizing and enacting collective social forms.”
— C. Otto Scharmer, Theory U: Learning from the Future as It Emerges
As The Story Goes
Storytelling likely is one of the oldest forms of socializing and engaging in mutual learning, which goes back to human’s first attempts of communicating through initially forming basic sounds and later words.
We sat - and still continue to sit - around the fireplace in smaller groups, or perhaps we gather in larger groups to listen to our tribal elders or leaders.
IMAGE | Mike Erskine
Traditional forms of presenting tend to follow a single pattern of one speaker telling their story to an audience of more or less engaged listeners.
The gift of stories has been carried with us since we where small babies and our parents, or siblings, read us cosy bedtime stories.
Stories can be powerful and transformative. They can help us transcend mental barriers and offer us new perspectives when we need them the most.
Sometimes we listen to people speaking from their heart with wisdom. And we feel; “This have to change”.
IMAGE « TED | Tracee Ellis-Ross | A woman’s fury holds lifetimes of wisdom
Let’s Talk - Shall We
Sometimes lively discussions do arise. Discussions that often get heated in the name of polarization. The British Parliament could perhaps serve as a contemporary illustration of how far ‘the art of discussions’ has brought human kind.
#Conversation #Irony #SpellingItOut
IMAGE « CBS News | British Parliament
Agree, or not agree. There are less often no clear answers to the questions we present. Simply more confusion and disarray seem to bubble up.
This demonstrates how an increasing number of democracies seemingly pursue governance in the name of their citizens.
From Stories To Narratives
Though as powerful stories can prove to be, real and tangible transformation starts when we begin to build common narratives, co-creating solutions and visions as a coherent collective.
In the video below John Hagel explore a perspective where narratives allows us to participate in creating a vital difference through the joint effort of creating solutions and promoting sustainable initiatives.
Today when the global event circus is reaching mammoth proportions and the number of professional speakers and presenters are growing rapidly across the globe, there is an emerging opportunity that could help us tackle the challenge that humans face (Video: Yuval Noah Harari, The YES Annual Meeting 2019) and help us get out of polarization to begin a more constructive and regenerative dialogue.
Let’s start paving a different path as a caring and engaged collective!
What if we could experiment at YOUR next event, seminar or workshop, to begin practice an open ended dialogue, forming a common narrative of what we see emerging?
IMAGE | Jacob Dalbjorn
Let it sink in and please GET IN TOUCH if you are interested in a deeper and wider conversation, OR if you wish to OFFER a seminar or workshop on the topic – ‘Let Your Presentation Speak For Itself’.
-> Get wild and curious! Please enjoy a sneak peak => English Version & Swedish version
Let’s collectively begin build the narrative of mutual learning to nurture collective intelligence and co-create true regenerative practices for future well being and survival.
Talk soon,