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Storytelling & Moral Injury

Storytelling that emphasizes conflict through narratives of good versus evil, winners and losers, is dangerous. There is an alternative.

Dec 13, 2021

Storytelling & Moral Injury

Dec 13, 2021

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Raising a Beautiful Mind

Stories, Stereotypes & Brain Scans: The Better Story of the Science of Story

Isn’t this brain scan impressive? It’s the scan of a person listening to a story! You can see how their brain lights up!

Aug 9, 2023

Stories, Stereotypes & Brain Scans: The Better Story of the Science of Story

Aug 9, 2023

Every Perspective has a Story: Listen for It

If everything around us seems new and different, let’s make the ways in which we listen new and different, too. Unprecedented times demand…

Dec 2, 2020

Every Perspective has a Story: Listen for It

Dec 2, 2020

The Urgency of Listening to Now

Only by listening will you discover all that is being disrupted, strengthened and created.

Jul 1, 2020

The Urgency of Listening to Now

Jul 1, 2020

Inviting Vulnerability

Immediately upon gathering of a group of twelve strangers in an emptied hotel room, our facilitator urged us to “be vulnerable.” She…

Feb 20, 2020

Inviting Vulnerability

Feb 20, 2020

Listening to Whispers

Sometimes we choose to whisper. Sometimes we decide to shout. In either case, we are communicating in the hopes that we are heard and…

Aug 8, 2019

Listening to Whispers

Aug 8, 2019

I am Not a Storyteller

Unless I am babysitting for my adorable nieces, I recoil when asked for a story. I am not a storyteller. But, like you, I have many…

Apr 2, 2019

I am Not a Storyteller

Apr 2, 2019

Beyond Understanding: Listening for Emergence

Over the course of a week, how many minutes of high-quality listening do you receive?

Jan 9, 2019

Beyond Understanding: Listening for Emergence

Jan 9, 2019

Thirteen Years of Exploring, Creating, & Communicating

I like shiny things. And most things are shiny and worthy of attention. Rarely do I meet anyone without an interesting story to share and…

May 30, 2018

Thirteen Years of Exploring, Creating, & Communicating

May 30, 2018

Heroes, Collectives, and ‘The Black Panther’

In the classic monomyth, or hero’s journey, an individual goes on an adventure, faces and overcomes a challenge, and, as a result of that…

May 24, 2018

Heroes, Collectives, and ‘The Black Panther’

May 24, 2018

Thaler Pekar

Thaler Pekar

Pioneer in narrative & communication. Keynoted on 4 continents. Award-winning video producer. Public & oral historian. Renown for finding stories.

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