Narrative structure is at the core of effective communication. The ABT Narrative Template is the tool we use for both learning narrative structure as well as strengthening your “Narrative Intuition.” The training is available to organizations of any profession from business and politics to law and science.
We offer two forms of ABT Training:
LOW IMPACT - working with the ABT every day for weeks on end with our Structuralists as you develop your own ABT.
HIGH IMPACT - our 10 hour course that includes core lectures, guest lectures, and Working Circles for development of your own ABT.
We offer two forms of ABT Training:
LOW IMPACT - working with the ABT every day for weeks on end with our Structuralists as you develop your own ABT.
HIGH IMPACT - our 10 hour course that includes core lectures, guest lectures, and Working Circles for development of your own ABT.
This is our tool, the ABT Narrative Template:
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Here are just a few of the organizations we’re working with: World Bank, Pfizer, U.S. Forest Service, USDA, National Park Service, FAA, NOAA
Here is our goal: to establish THE ABT MINDSET
A WORKING CIRCLE is a group session where graduates of our NARRATIVE TRAINING program use the ABT Framework to develop and strengthen the core narrative of a project, proposal, paper, presentation -- any material that needs to eventually be communicated either to fellow specialists or the general public.
_____ AND _____ BUT _____ THEREFORE _____
Here are just a few of the organizations we’re working with: World Bank, Pfizer, U.S. Forest Service, USDA, National Park Service, FAA, NOAA
Here is our goal: to establish THE ABT MINDSET
A WORKING CIRCLE is a group session where graduates of our NARRATIVE TRAINING program use the ABT Framework to develop and strengthen the core narrative of a project, proposal, paper, presentation -- any material that needs to eventually be communicated either to fellow specialists or the general public.
The Narrative Gym Series
In the spring of 2020 we developed the ABT Framework Course consisting of 10 one hour sessions for 30 participants plus individual half hour Working Circle development sessions. Month after month, we have run the course as we’ve drawn in a team of 20 instructors and advisors. The course gave rise to this initial short book which has now been adapted to other disciplines, coauthoring with our team members.
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Law
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The ABT Course
The ABT is fun. (Here's an article about it.) The course is part of the larger concept of THE NARRATIVE GYM, which refers to anything that exercises the narrative part of your brain, including the course, the podcast, the books, and Working Circles that are part of the course.
The ABT is fun. (Here's an article about it.) The course is part of the larger concept of THE NARRATIVE GYM, which refers to anything that exercises the narrative part of your brain, including the course, the podcast, the books, and Working Circles that are part of the course.
The course provides three main benefits
Introduction to the narrative tools (in particular the ABT Framework and the Dobzhansky Template).
Start of the journey towards developing “narrative intuition.”
Social “entrainment” meaning the habit of developing narrative structure through a 5 person group called a Working Circle.
MEET THE TEAM...
Mike Strauss
Science
Dianna Padilla
Science
Park Howell
Business
Doug Passon
Law
Shirley Malcom
Science
Rick Nelson
Science
Brian Palermo
Acting
Nancy Knowlton
Science
Matthew David
Film
Dave Gold
Politics
Marlis Douglas
Science
Keisha Bahr
Science
Julie Claussen
Science
Liz Foote
Conservation
Michael Bart
Science
David Pullan
Business
Sarah Jane McKechnie
Business
Patty Limerick
History
10 One-Hour Sessions
ABT Ambassadors
We’ve asked some of the instructors and graduates of the ABT Framework Course to help us as ambassadors in propagating a wider understanding of the power and ubiquity of the ABT. For each one, they tell about one INSTANCE of seeing the ABT in the real world, and one APPLICATION they have made of the ABT Framework to their own work.
About Randy
Hi, my name's Randy Olson, and I’m a scientist-turned-filmmaker. Here’s my story ...
Hi, my name's Randy Olson, and I’m a scientist-turned-filmmaker. Here’s my story ...
Randy Olson (left) receives the 2020 John P. McGovern Award for Excellence in Biomedical Communication from the American Medical Writers Association. Center: Kimberly Mankiewicz, Director, Center for Health Communication, University of Texas. Right: Long time ABT collaborator Dr. Mike Strauss, former head of Office of Science Quality Review, U.S.D.A./A.R.S.
The ABT Time Podcast
The ABT Time Podcast is co-hosted by Dr. Randy Olson and Dr. Jen Martin, head of Science Communication for University of Melbourne, Australia. It was launched in spring, 2021. The podcast has a specific focus on the ABT Narrative Framework as a part of the Narrative Gym concept for conditioning the narrative part of the brain.
The ABT Time Podcast is co-hosted by Dr. Randy Olson and Dr. Jen Martin, head of Science Communication for University of Melbourne, Australia. It was launched in spring, 2021. The podcast has a specific focus on the ABT Narrative Framework as a part of the Narrative Gym concept for conditioning the narrative part of the brain.
