“You never know what kind of impact telling your story will have — on yourself or someone else.” Reflections from years of teaching and learning through story.

Learning to tell stories doesn’t just make us better communicators — it helps us reflect, grow, and connect. Here’s why storytelling teaches more than it seems.

What makes a story stick isn’t how much we say — it’s how deeply we help people feel. In digital storytelling, the tools are vast, but the goal is simple: connection.

Story reconnects us—to truth, to each other, to what’s possible. What if the most radical thing we can do is listen deeply and share honestly?