EnCompass Leadership
Rochester, NY
Twelve youth-serving leaders used characters and storytelling to see their own communication styles, and took that back to their teams.
By the numbers
- 12 youth-serving leaders completed the full two-hour workshop
- 12 of 12 took part in a reflection activity
- 9 of 12 identified a communication behavior they planned to change
- 10 of 12 rated the exercise useful for team dialogue
- 4 reported applying the storytelling and archetype exercise in their work
“People reached” is our projected community reach: the midpoint of our estimate of everyone the program touched beyond the people in the room, such as families, classmates, colleagues and neighbors.
Twelve professionals who work with young people spent two hours exploring their own communication tendencies through character creation and narrative development.
Seeing yourself as a character makes it easier to talk about how you show up with colleagues and with the young people you serve. The session opened space for vulnerability, authentic dialogue and discussion of how to use the approach with youth.
- Insight into personal communication patterns
- A clearer picture of team collaboration dynamics
- New strategies for engaging youth
- Stronger internal relationships
- All participants described it as beneficial for team rapport, workflow and collaboration
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Discover your style
Each leader explored a communication archetype.
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Become a character
Strengths and tendencies became an original character.
- 3
Tell the story
Characters met in a shared story, and so did the team.
- 4
Reflect and apply
Leaders named what they'd change and took it back to work.
I left with an idea I could adapt for the young people I work with and also got my son enrolled in another program run by the same facilitators. He is 12 and once he took the program we had some amazing dialogue and things to talk more deeply about, together.Briana, EnCompass staff
See the work
Photos, characters and finished comics from this program are on their way.
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