We have three major components in the storytelling event. One is the context of the event, the physical and social setting in which a story is told. A second is the transfer of imagery that occurs between storyteller and audience (we will develop this concept a few paragraphs below). And finally, there are three obvious ingredients: storyteller, audience and story. These three ingredients form the storytelling triangle that you can see here:
In this triangle the storyteller has a relationship with both the audience and the story. This last one –storyteller and story- includes the intellectual understanding of the story, emotional experience with the story and the imagining of the story.
The mentioned relationships involve the storyteller. There is a third relationship that does not: the relationship between the story and the audience. In a successful storytelling event there will be a connection between them. As a storyteller, we can try to influence this relationship but we cannot force the audience to create one. However, making effective use of the tools available to us, we can try and encourage this relationship between the story and our audience.
Now let us go back to the transfer of imagery. We can define “imagery” as the internal representation of an actual experience. When a story is told there is a transfer of imagery from the storyteller to the audience. Before the story is told, the storyteller has mental images of the story. After the story is told, the listeners have created their own mental images of the story. The bridge between our images and their images is oral language –together with gestures, posture, tone of voice, facial expression, etc- and the visual support you use.
(These definitions are extracted from the book “Improving your storytelling” by Doug Lipman)
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