{"id":7747,"date":"2026-04-17T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=7747"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:53:38","slug":"engaging-audiences-through-storytelling-3","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/event\/engaging-audiences-through-storytelling-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging Audiences through Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Storytelling is one of our primary forms of communication, and our culture\u2014from movies and advertising to our daily newsfeeds\u2014is permeated with stories of all kinds. To connect with people as an academic, you need to tell stories with your research, and the storytelling skills you develop can benefit you in fields beyond academia as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learning outcomes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(1) Understand how stories function as a primary form of communication in human culture<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(2) Learn about the elements of stories, and different types of stories<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(3) Acquire insight into how storytelling can inform how you communicate your research<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(4) Gain an overview of how storytelling can function in non-academic professional contexts like copywriting and content marketing<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Workshop leader(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Lafferty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong> <span class=\"ui-provider gy b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">because this session is not taking place during the Fall or Winter terms, it cannot count toward paid pedagogical training hours for those working as TAs.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those registered in the Trajectories program, attendance at this workshop may count toward&nbsp;<strong>one&nbsp;<\/strong>of the required workshops for the&nbsp;<strong>Communications and Engagement<\/strong>&nbsp;non-credit certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>REGISTRATION COMING SOON<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[46,57,54],"cu_event_audience":[6],"class_list":["post-7747","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-centralized-event-list","cu_event_type-communications-and-engagement","cu_event_type-skill-streams","cu_event_audience-current-students"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-06-04 13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-06-04 15:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"virtual","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7747\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}