We’ve Been Using Storytelling Wrong – How to fix it | Dr. Paulina Sosa-Quintanilla | TEDxBrownsville

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What happens after someone trusts you with their story? Paulina Sosa, completing her doctoral training in public health and informatics, noticed a pattern across years of interviews: we have no shortage of stories, our feeds are full of them, but we often stop paying attention the moment the camera turns off. Sosa argues the real problem isn’t a shortage of storytelling, it’s a habit of stopping too soon. Drawing on interviews that range from a family-owned brewery that became a community lifeline during the pandemic to patterns she noticed in caregiving stories, she introduces what she calls story stewardship: a five-part practice for staying responsible to a story once someone has entrusted it to you. Her case is that the question we ask after “how do we share this” should be “what is this story asking us to notice.” This talk includes personal interviews and a practical framework for listening, built for anyone who works with other people’s stories: in public health, education, bu

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