The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education has identified “Narratives of Potential” as the focus for this year’s Staff Development Conference in Edinburgh in November.  In order to get delegates thinking about this theme in advance of the event itself, we’ve created a story – Foul Whisperings – which will be told in five weekly episodes in the run up to the conference.

The story will continue at the conference itself through live performance and interaction with delegates.  If you are interested in following this story, and in sharing your own responses with us here, then read on…

Storytelling

In our culture we use and are exposed to stories all the time, in lots of different forms: personal stories told privately to share experience with one another; stories told through the media to entertain, educate, persuade; stories about individuals that tell universal truths about human experience.

In keeping with the Edinburgh backdrop of this year’s LFHE conference, MacBeth provides the inspiration for our story “Foul Whisperings”.  The story is told on video and through the e-mails of our OD professional Alison Banks.

Watch “Foul Whisperings”

You’ll be able to access a weekly episode of this story here.

First read some background information which will give you some context for the story.  Then go to the blog entitled Episode 1 where you can watch the video, read Alison’s account of events and look at this week’s narrative focus.

Each episode is intended to be interactive – why not leave your comments below?