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It's 'This UIF training module was created by Aisha Bain and Meredith Hutchison of Resistance Communications. Check us out if you feel like it! Note from the UIF team: we’ve previously given candidates one week to complete this session. After receiving feedback that candidates needed more time to complete their storytelling deliverables, we’ve extended the final deadline for all materials to October 16, which will give you two weeks to work on this session.''}}<br>{{Content-A|color=#5F574F|title=We are made of stories.|content=<br>We have been telling stories since the beginning of time — from visual stories on cave walls, to oral historians, to how we share your ideas more broadly parts of ourselves with a new friend, to rap music, to some nonsense politicians trying to tell us… (insert SIDE EYE). There are infinite reasons we tell stories. Stories shift power, they heal, they create pathways for change. They help us structure and organize thought, and gain support outside help us make sense of your group of candidates the world.  Our physiology is actually primed for stories — they literally make us feel good! The connection we make with a story and the characters within them can release oxytocin which controls things like empathy and faculty championssocial interaction. You've been thinking deeply about change Conflict or tension in higher education during a story can release cortisol which makes you stress the last five weeks*bleep* out. Are All that to say, there are literally biological reasons why you ready to share are on the edge of your passionseat when you hear an epic story, and why you’re moved in certain ways.  Griots, indigenous storytellers, dream walkers, rawi, the krik krak, Hakawati, Rakugo — we are descendants from cultures, knowledge practices and histories steeped and experiences? To do thisshaped in storytelling (if you don’t know what these are — check em out!).  There are many different kinds of stories, many different reasons to tell stories. This training is about supporting you need to stretch and grow your strategic storytelling skills — MEANING YOU WIELD THE POWER TO CHANGE MINDS (we’ll define what that all means in a convincing second).  But before we begin there is one thing we want to stress before all else. Your story, and your voice matter. It is easy to get caught up in your goals or end results and forget this fact. Whether you need are sharing something very personal or talking about a way new idea or product, you deserve to be listened to get and your story out into the worldvoice has value. Full stop.