The stunning LINC Library Innovation Center in Greeley, Colo., where I spent the last two days training with the Colorado Humanities Council.
Hi storytellers –
I’ve been schooled.
When I noticed that the Colorado Humanities Council was hosting a two-day training on facilitating community conversations, I jumped at the chance. I lead workshops, speak in public, moderate the occasional panel — not to mention the thousands of interviews I’ve done over the course of my career. Easy, right?
Well, my ego was about to get a smackdown.
Simply put, as Terry Gross says, “An interview should sound conversational, but it’s not a conversation.”
The purpose of an interview or conversation changes the way we should approach them.
On Monday, Jason and LaNaya, our instructors, prompted us to co-facilitate conversations about some deceptively sensitive topics.
Here and in my workshops, I spend a lot of time advocating for specifics — specific questions and specific descriptions of events, characters, an…
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