• communication,  leadership

    [SPEAK] S is for Story

    I was serving as a greeter at my church one Sunday. If you’ve ever done this, you know you’re probably going to say, “How are you?” dozens or hundreds of times as you welcome people. And you’ll often hear some version of “Good, how are you?” in response. This week, however, I found myself tuned into a common set of replies. “I’m hanging in there.” “I’m surviving.” A handful of people responded in this way, and I realized they were probably being honest. But was that the whole story?   Dr. Leonard Sweet coined the term “narraphor” in his book Tablet to Table. It’s a combination of the words narrative…