The Living Story: Session 3 - The Storyteller's Presence

Your Body Is Part of the Story

A preview of The Living Story, Session 3 — Sunday, June 28th

There's a moment in every great story when you stop being an audience and become a participant. Your pulse shifts. You lean forward slightly. You forget, for a beat, that you're sitting in a chair.

That moment isn't accidental. It's engineered — by voice, by body, by the invisible chemistry that moves between a storyteller and the room. And once you understand how it works, you can never unhear it.

That's what Session 3: The Storyteller's Presence is about.

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The Part Nobody Talks About

Most storytelling advice lives in the realm of structure and content: build tension, use specific details, find your stakes. All of it is true. All of it is necessary.

But there's a layer underneath all of that — a physical layer — that determines whether your story lands or floats away. It's the quality of your voice when the moment gets quiet. It's where your eyes go when you place a character in a scene. It's the way your nervous system either relaxes an audience or subtly alarms them.

We're going to work with all of it.

What Happens in the Room

We open with a warm-up. Voice. Body. Yes, on Zoom. Yes, it will feel a little absurd for about five minutes — and then something will loosen, and you'll understand why performers do this before every show.

From there, we move into the VAK framework — Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic communication. You have a dominant mode. So does your audience. Learning to recognize both changes how you connect, not just on a stage, but in a meeting, a pitch, a conversation that actually matters.

Then we get into focal points — one of the most underestimated tools in virtual storytelling. Where do your eyes go when you're on camera? They should be working: placing characters in space, shifting between scenes, pulling your listener deeper into the world you're building. We'll give you a concrete, camera-based system you can use in any recorded or live virtual setting.

The centerpiece of the session is a live demonstration of the brain chemistry of storytelling. You'll watch a story told — feel it work on you in real time — and then watch it taken apart, beat by beat, so you can see precisely what was happening and why. Dopamine. Oxytocin. Cortisol. These aren't metaphors. They're the actual mechanism, and understanding them changes how you listen to stories for the rest of your life.

We close with live mini-story performances and the kind of feedback that's specific, generous, and genuinely useful.

Who This Is For

If you're returning from Sessions 1 and 2, you already know the caliber of this work. Session 3 will deepen everything you've already built.

If you're joining fresh — welcome. This session is designed to stand entirely on its own. You don't need the earlier sessions to get something real out of this one.

Either way, you'll leave with tools you can use immediately: in your next presentation, your next meeting, your next story told to anyone.

The Details

When: Sunday, June 28th · 4:00–5:30 PM EDT

Where: Zoom (link sent after registration)

Investment: $25

Stories don't just entertain. They change the chemistry of a room — and the person telling them. Come find out how.

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