STORY: The Fabric of Reality (4&5 of 5)

These are the last two parts of a five part interview by Rick Stone, author of "Story Intelligence," He interviews Christopher Stapleton, Experiential Architect @Simiosys discussing how he is helping others weave a new reality with Conversational Story Creation to escape a life of isolation.

Starting a Story is Like Starting a Conversation

Every great storyteller finds a unique way to start their story conversation with a version of, “What if…?” This invitation stokes the audience’s curiosity as they move to the edge to ask, “What then…?” These are the first two conversational threads weaving a new story reality. Even if the story experience is seemingly passive, the story is having a conversation with the audience’s imagination stoking their empathy and reason to help make the fiction real to them. As storytellers, we know that our reality resides inside, behind our eyeballs so when "they believe it, they will see it.”

Click here to enjoy all 5 parts of Rick Stone's interview of Christopher Stapleton 

In this fourth of a five-part interview, Christopher discusses how our brains work analogically and how integral it is to understand that story is the fabric of our reality. He shares how he has been extending reality across a number of dimensions and how this has helped him to help populations at risk of isolation. 

In this last of a five-part interview, Christopher discusses the importance of trans-disciplinary collaboration to engender innovation. He explores the importance of being willing to enter into new fields with the eyes of a novice to change paradigms in create giant leaps forward in our understanding of our world and our role in it.