STORI Intro

The STORI Foundation provides funding and services for participating organizations that help people tell their stories to the right people in the right way. To be brief, this represents a shift in what might be called an organization’s ‘relationship-flow’.

For example, in education the teacher has always been the go-to person, where the primary service of a school was provided or delivered. Today this is still true but the student can be and often is more connected with the outside world than ever before. Their personal relations can actually ‘follow’ the student, to borrow a word from Twitter. In this way they can actually participate in the process of education (the school’s primary service).

This shift in the people involved can change the roles of the student, teachers, fellow students, parents, administrators and outside relations. The role of the teacher now includes the outside relations and the role-shift can be coupled with the assistance of the student’s parents. The administrator who often focuses on positive PR and discipline, can now more readily facilitate external relations and improve discipline in the context of the student’s relations.

Traditionally the school institution felt the obligation of managing the school through public relations. Schools and other organizations seem to be destined to learn to maintain public relations while optimizing the personal relations that impact their core product.

Each person, in their unique role or position, can and likely will experience this significant change. This presents a wide range of new issues and opportunities. Similar changes can and likely will occur in business, government, religion, families and communities as we adjust to the new environment we live in. The different members of the STORI foundation offer examples of how this can take place and they benefit from the pioneering of the other associated organizations.
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With the onset of permission marketing and the popularity of the open-source and green movements, organizations seem to be shifting their focus from just providing to both providing and helping others become. We assume this will happen more and more during the coming 50 years.  Institutions will choose to work themselves out of a job as communities and families do their job better than they can and by so doing they will gain market share.

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Allen and Martha Levie are grateful to all of those friends that have contributed to the development of STORI Foundation during the last 10 years especially their friends and mentors at George Wythe University. During this time the idea behind each organization seemed to spawn another project. At times it seemed as though they had failed as each idea did not bare fruit in the year it developed into an organization. We now feel as though the STORI Foundation provides a common platform from which we can contribute.

Elocution 360° will be STORI’s flagship organization. We will pilot the elocution course “Rendering Greatness” in 5 communities using “just over cost seminars”. To become one of the first five communities please comment below. We will also teach the semester course via live-online classroom starting in January 2010.

The John and Abigail Adams Academy will launch in two phases.  The first phase will help students and parents learn how to communicate their education through elocution and enhanced personal-relations. The second phase is the live online high school. Enrollment is open for Fall 2010. The Academy will demonstrate how integrating personal-relations can provide a dynamic learning environment. To attend or teach at the academy please comment below.

Integrating personal-relations into on-site schools and distance/virtual programs will be orchestrated through Educational Ascent. Educational Ascent will remain a think-tank/consulting group while the “Personal-relations in 3D” course is taught and filmed. To contribute or participate in the piloting of this course at your school comment below.

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