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SERVICES

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The Good Soil

An innovative process that involves gathering stories from diverse people who share a given context. The stories are creatively interwoven and staged to facilitate meaningful engagement and new understanding, which can inform new vision and collaborative action. Good Soil projects can be shaped and implemented in a variety of ways and settings-- neighborhoods, schools, corporations, and organizations, etc....

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The Good Course

The Good Course is an in-person or online 10-hour seminar that shifts focus from the question what is the problem, to, what is good? The course highlights stories that break through reductive frames and involve participants in coproducing new understanding, vision and plans of action.   

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Living in Stories

This is the solo version of “The Good Course”--a process for activating narrative communicative agency and discovering meaningfulness and new vision found within personal stories. This is a liberating process that starts with the reality that a person is never confined by a single story, but is an active communicative agent inside multiple stories where responses and choices are waiting to be made.   

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Speaking Engagements

Ronald Pate is a gifted public speaker who uses stories to open up new horizons. If you are looking for a speaker that can connect with diverse audiences and catalyze good vision, please see the contact information below.

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