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Storytelling

Storytelling is growing in visibility and popularity. Stories create connection, energy, and emotional impact. They are used by effective leaders and organizations to send signals, as well as engage, influence and persuade. Stories are increasingly seen as a leveraged strategy to foster change by senior leaders, change strategists and communications people.We have developed this page of the QHN website to help quality improvers like yourself can learn what integration means to other organizations and how they are integrating their services.

This Spring, QHN held its 2008 Spring Symposium on Enabling a Culture of Integration One Story at a Time in which we explored storytelling methods and methodology and in its place in healthcare. We have gathered storytelling tools, examples from the field, and literature here within, as you yourself search for meaningful ways to integrate storytelling into the work that you do.

If you have other storytelling tools or a story to share, we would love to hear from you as this topic evolves.

 

Tools

The following tools - templates, manuals and policies, have been recommended by our members, faculty or partners. To access, click on the tool you are interested in downloading.

 

Examples from the Field

The following Member presentations and stories demonstrate what can happen when these tools and evidence are put into practice. To access, click on the example you are interested in downloading.

Literature

The following literature has been gathered for your information. To access, click on the reference you are interested in downloading. Often, recommended literature is copyright, in which case, we can only provide the reference citation.