StoryPathing is a simple and effective tool to learn how to respond to a request to talk about yourself in public without relying on data points, facts, and figures.  The method consists of three stages.  The first stage is a discovery period based on reading, reflection, and dialogue to identify formative experiences according to thematic categories. Next, after a careful vetting process, a few of these experiences are selected and arranged in a sequence.  After refining and practicing your story, you’re ready to deliver your personal narrative, the final stage, both to engage and inform a listener who you are.  In the process of sharing a few key experiences, you invite the audience into your own story.

StoryPathing is a tool to organize lived experience and offers a framework and language to talk about yourself confidently by removing the guess-work and awkwardness out of responding to the prompt ‘tell me about yourself’.  Because the method invites you to reflect on a very few particularly valuable experiences in your life, you are able to insert these in conversation to illustrate the genuine person behind the profile, resume, data points, and credentials. You take the initiative to establish a relationship between you and your audience, whether it’s an interview, networking situation, or even just a casual conversation.

Engaging in StoryPathing offers a method of discerning who you really are, a lens by which to examine the course of your life, and the means for you to construct an effective self-presentation. By analyzing significant life experiences, you uncover a constellation of meaning that you probably weren’t aware existed. Once you realize these patterns, you are empowered you with an undeniable confidence, apparent to you and obvious to others, to present your genuine self.  In other words, StoryPathing is a way to understand your past, enrich your present, and shape an intentional future.