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The Past Isn't Objective: Your "Story" Is Your Responsibility
Mental Strength For Revisiting The Past
One can change the story of one’s past including what it meant. New lessons can be learned by revisiting the past in an objective manner, without guilt, remorse or any grudge.
Becoming emotionally and mentally tough makes us face our past with courage, and helps us change the meaning of our often traumatic past.
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The Past Is Flexible
The past, and our understanding of it, is a reflection of our current state of mind.
The past, which is assumed to be static, is in fact constantly changing. Historical facts are looked at with new data, new experiences, and according to what new shape the collective human memory takes.
The Stories We Tell About Our Lives
Our story, which we are narrating to others, is constantly changing with our new experiences and insights, as our lives go by.
These stories become our identity and certain core memories, or life events of immense sorrow or happiness, stick with us forever.
Mental Strength For Revisiting The Past
One can change the story of one’s past including what it meant. New lessons can be learned by revisiting the past in an objective manner, without guilt, remorse or any grudge.
Becoming emotionally and mentally tough makes us face our past with courage, and helps us change the meaning of our often traumatic past.
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Dramatic strategy ...
- ... moves audiences,
- empowers them to play a role and
- realigns them with a higher purpose.
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Dramaturgical model of communication
Focus on communicating meaning by enabling followers to become emotionally invested in change by being part of the larger narrative.
This communication approach spurs its constituency through imagination towards a common goal.
Considerations for dramaturgical approach
- Leaders should "manufacture" meaning.
- Narratives are enhanced when storytellers bring the audience into the present.
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