Story-telling Masterclass
15:30 - 17:00 | 7 January 2020
Join us for a Story-telling Masterclass with Jessica Perlo (Network Director at Institute for Healthcare Improvement) on Tuesday 7th January, 3.30 – 5.00pm. The first of it’s kind this virtual masterclass is open to everyone and will be taught remotely via locations across the Trust.
This interactive workshop is based on the teachings of Marshall Ganz, the man who devised Barack Obama‘s grassroots organising model in 2008, and will leave any attendees feeling they have a full grasp and strong ability in public narrative.
Jessica will offer an overview of how to use story-telling to motivate and encourage your audience, be they your staff members, colleagues or peers.
The Masterclass will be delivered by WebEx with several locations available across the Trust, plus the ability to log in remotely from wherever you are based. If you would like to attend please complete the form below, we then send you further details on how you can join a group or connect using you’re own technology.
Ahead of the session we suggest you should come ready to craft and share stories of self and others, you can use the this worksheet to help get started>>
Learning Objectives:
- To explain why story-telling matters
- To understand how the leadership practice of public story-telling works
- To develop your own public stories to tell and to coach others in theirs
- To identify opportunities to apply story telling in your leadership work
Venues: The Masterclass will be delivered via WebEx across the Trust.
WebEx locations including Boardroom, Trust HQ, and further venues to be confirmed.
This workshop will be delivered by:
Jessica Perlo
Network Director, The IHI
Jessica Perlo, MPH, is the Network Director of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Open School, a global interprofessional community that provides health students and professionals with the skills they need to become change leaders in health care. Jessica holds a Bachelors in Science from the University of Vermont and a Master’s in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health. She is trained in community organizing from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and facilitative leadership from the Interaction Institute for Social Change. For more than 10 years, she’s worked in health professional program development and quality improvement at both Brigham & Women’s Hospital and at IHI. Jessica is charged with leading IHI’s effort to organize students to take action to improve the health of their communities through the Open School and is the Director of IHI’s Joy in Work Portfolio. The aim of this portfolio is to provide new and innovative approaches to tackle the urgent challenge of workforce burnout in health systems, offices, and community settings. This portfolio supports leaders and individuals in fostering a positive work environment that creates equity, camaraderie, meaning, and choice in our work, and ensures a shared commitment deliver high-quality care.
