Any techniques to improve story telling?

[Unregistered]

I was wondering, does anyone have any good techniques for improving story telling...

Would this be a possible solution:

Hypnotise (the right way to spell it I believe) yourself, then 'remove' the beliefs that you are not a good story teller...and install beliefs that you are a good story teller....

and visualize yourself telling stories...

Also is it possible to use hypnosis to 'train' yourself to listen for someones v-a-k representational words when they are talking (visual-audio-kinesthetic). so you can speak to them in their main representational system... If this is possible, is it possible to do it subconsciously?

'Tonio

[Jack]

Hello Tonio,

Hypnotise (the right way to spell it I believe) yourself, then 'remove' the beliefs that you are not a good story teller...and install beliefs that you are a good story teller....

and visualize yourself telling stories...

Should work. You may need someone else to do the hypnosis.

Also is it possible to use hypnosis to 'train' yourself to listen for someones v-a-k representational words when they are talking (visual-audio-kinesthetic). so you can speak to them in their main representational system... If this is possible, is it possible to do it subconsciously?

After a few months as a therapist you will do it subconsciously without the need for further training.

Jack

[Unregistered]

Why not just learn to use supposition?

[Don]

IMO your idea to "'remove' the beliefs that you are not a good story teller...and install beliefs that you are a good story teller...." is a good one to begin to solve the issue, but it may not go far enough.

If you, right this moment, knew beyond any doubt that you were a good story teller, would you be able to tell good stories? Maybe. But for many people who have not been good story tellers the problem is not simply changing the belief that they are not good story tellers but learning how to tell a story. Similarly, thinking one is a great brain surgeon doesn't make it so--you have to learn brain surgery.

So the question is, how does one do that? Obviously, one goes to school (that is, reads a lot of books and attends lectures on what is in the books), then observes a surgeon, and finally practices and does it on one's own.

With story telling (and, in fact, learning many skills), this would involve reading lots of stories (and watching movies), as well as perhaps taking some classes on acting. Then one might find a good story teller and model him or her--discover everything that person does and imitate it. Finally, one could go out and try the newly-learned skills.

Unlike the movie "The Matrix," skills cannot be learned by a simple download (or magical spell or posthypnotic suggestion). They can certainly be enhanced by using means such as you suggest--getting rid of blocks, building self-confidence, being open to the excellence of the unconscious in creating stories, etc.--but I don't think such means won't completely replace study, modeling, and practice.

YMMV

[Simple Guy]

Guest,

I could use supposition for plane flying skills, but if I've never had
flight instruction neither you nor I would want to be in a plane
that I was the pilot of. Similarly for storytelling skills. The distinction,
though, is that storytelling skills can be imparted by modeling -- be it of
the village folk story teller or having absorbed skills by reading
printed works of Ernest Hemingway or others.

[Terry (existing)]

The poster asks about story telling, and I trust that is what they meant to say, because jokes are altogether different.......
A good story teller requires imagination, when they speak they actually paint a picture, and often see that picture in their minds eye. This I can do, however, when it comes to jokes, I have a problem unlike a very good friend of mine, who can tell jokes all day without repeating himself, and tell them well. Now we both have a very good command of language, and both have a photographic memory. The problem is, his has film, and mine doesn't!