Kall: That'll be great! So, we're going to keep going and they're going to shut us off at any moment now!
Kall; Korten: (Laughter)
Kall: But not from our end; that'll be our radio listeners, who'll have to download to get the rest of it.
Korten: Yeah, OK; well, the community thing is really quite amazing as we—you know, one of the themes that I work with in my most recent writing is the importance of our cultural stories. The importance of our "cultural stories". The stories by which we understand what is prosperity, what is wealth, what is security?
Kall: I have to tell you that-- I know you're friends with Thom Hartmann; I was talking with him last night…
Korten: Yeah, absolutely.
Kall: And, years ago, back in the 'Nineties, Thom sent me a novel and I gave him some feedback on it, and I said well, give me some feedback on the novel I'm working on and he did and I liked it and it was useful, he said well, if you liked that you should check out this seminar by Robert McKee he had just written a book on story structure. and it started me on a journey into learning about story and it ended up with me, in a couple of years, I held a conference, a summit meeting on the art, science and application of story
And I brought together for the first time in history. People from all the different worlds of story: Story tellers, novelists, screenwriters, knowledge management consultants, lawyers, ministers psychologists, it was incredible, I had thirty five speakers from all these different worlds come together, and you know the story of the blind wise men and the elephant.
Korten: Oh, yeah.
Kall: It was one of those moments; everybody describing their experience of story, what it meant to them, how it worked. So, when I discovered that you were seeing story as a solution; it’s something that I spent six years running conferences on.
Korten: Aha! Fascinating.
Kall: Didn’t make a nickel on it, but (laughing)
Korten: Yeah.
Kall: It was an incredible experience bringing together all the different worlds of story and in the process, what I discovered, was after energy…
Korten: Hmmm-hmmm.
Kall: After the energy business, the story business is probably
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Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, inventor . He is also published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com
With his experience as architect and founder of a technorati top 100 blog, he is also a new media / social media consultant and trainer for corporations, non-profits, entrepreneurs and authors.
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