Presenters:

Step up the quality of your presentations by learning how to add stories in order to:

• Access resourceful learning states in your opening
• Wrap up your presentation with an experience your audience will remember
• Illustrate and illuminate the material you are presenting
• Pace and lead your audience
• Shift your listener's emotional state
• Entertain
• Reach your listener's long-term memory
• Help your listener's suspend disbelief
• Embed the learning
• Trigger a solution to a problem
• Entertain
• Be respectfully indirect
• Reach the listener's unconscious mind
• Switch the listener to the right side of their brain
• Touch their heart

"I have learned that the head does not know anything until the heart has listened, and what the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow."
~ James Stephens, "A Crock of Gold"