Storying the Self: (Re)Claiming our Voices

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Storying the Self: (Re)Claiming our Voices

This course is part of Storying the Self for Leadership and Creativity Specialization

Instructor: Linds Roberts

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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8 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

8 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Engage active listening towards others’ life stories with empathy and curiosity.
Identify the interaction between sociocultural and interpersonal dynamics in life stories.
Value our own life experiences and identities as leaders and creators.

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There are 4 modules in this course

Engage with lived experiences and identities that have often been denied a public voice. Consider the nuanced contexts of race, gender, class, language, ability, and how these impact your position as a leader and creator. You’ll question what it means to reclaim your narrative of yourself and to engage with the strength of vulnerability as a leader and creator. In a creative exercise, you’ll engage with multiple perspectives on a past conflict and use this reflection to practice perspective-taking and listening that can generate creative work and deepen leadership skills for empathy, listening and engaging in multicultural workplaces.

This week we'll dive more deeply into aspects of our social identities, how they relate to our access to resources, voice, and choice, and how they shape our stories of ourselves. We'll also take a look at the four types of stories: stock stories, concealed stories, resistance stories, and transformative stories to better understand how stories are used within our cultural contexts.

What's included

3 videos7 readings2 discussion prompts

3 videos Total 9 minutes

Welcome to Storying the Self! 2 minutes
How Stories Function in Society 4 minutes
Smelling the Power Flower 3 minutes

7 readings Total 61 minutes

Course Updates and Accessibility Support 1 minute
Course Assessment 10 minutes
Glossary of Identity Terms 10 minutes
Social Justice Self-Reflection — The Power Flower 10 minutes
Storytelling for Social Justice 10 minutes
"The Cycle of Socialization" 10 minutes
Reginald Dwayne Betts Podcast 10 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 30 minutes

Power Flower or Identity Headlines 20 minutes
Stories Society Tells About You 10 minutes

This week we reflect on what it means to receive the stories others share. We'll also practice deep listening and noticing.

What's included

1 video5 readings1 discussion prompt

1 video Total 63 minutes

A Conversation with Elizabeth Dutro 63 minutes

5 readings Total 90 minutes

Background for Conversation with Elizabeth Dutro 10 minutes
Elizabeth Dutro, "Trauma as Testimony" 10 minutes
Active Listening Strategies 10 minutes
Deep Listening & Indigenous Leadership 10 minutes
Active & Deep Listening Practice: Ocean Vuong On Being Podcast 50 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

Deep Listening and Witnessing Reflection 10 minutes

This week we consider stories of individual experiences within structures and systems that add greater nuance to the stock or dominant narratives we hear. We will consider what is possible when we complicate common stereotypes and consider the ways that power interacts with these stories.

What's included

3 readings1 discussion prompt

This week we consider how honoring the stories in our bodies and the empathy that arises when we deeply hear others' stories and perspectives can move us into action.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 peer review1 discussion prompt1 plugin

1 video Total 1 minute

Congratulations! 1 minute

4 readings Total 50 minutes

Chanel Miller Interview with Glennon Doyle 20 minutes
Grace Lee Boggs podcast with Krista Tippett 10 minutes
Exploring Storytelling Projects 10 minutes
Role of Leaders in Social Change Narratives 10 minutes

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Told Two Ways 120 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

Something Your Body Knows is True 10 minutes

1 plugin Total 15 minutes

Your Feedback on the Course 15 minutes

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Instructor

Linds Roberts

University of Colorado Boulder

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