Redefining Story, Craft, Collaboration, & Success
 in the Emerging Media and Brave New World

By Patrick A. Horton, PhD ©

This unique seminar provides the conceptual spearhead and initial key venues for the story coach / wind & thunder productions social and media advocacy endeavors for all those interested in succeeding in and/or effectively shaping the media industry and the rapidly converging worlds it seeks to profit by and serve. 

The seminar and its related presentations, publications, and productions seek nothing less than initiating radical shifts in how we discuss, teach, and collaboratively create and use story, media, and strategies for applied social change. As with its related shorter presentations and workshops, it will be available for the coming year to and through select allied media industry studios, networks, institutions, and groups at little to no cost for these organizations and/or their constituencies.

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Regardless of your current or desired role in the creative and commercial processes of filmmaking, media development, and/or strategic planning and project development in virtually any arena, everything you do is a manifestation of story and storytelling.

If you are a writer, you must divine, define, and powerfully express your story in a way that speaks to and moves actors, directors, producers, publishers, and ultimately an audience. 

If you are an actor, director, producer, or development exec, you must clearly convey your needs and vision to guide your best from writers AND know how to listen to draw out and get theirs. 

If you are a studio or marketing executive really worth your salt, you must know how to assure you have the goods for more than just a marketing campaign for a successful opening weekend.

And if you are a planner, manager, or change agent of any kind in the reel or real world, you must effectively divine, communicate, and engage others in your vision of possibility and change.

IDEAL FOR: Actors | Agents & Managers | Writers, Screenwriters, & Journalists
Narrative & Documentary Filmmakers | Producers, Directors, & Development Execs
Media, Marketing, & Communications Professionals | Public & Professional Speakers
Corporate Executives | Social Entrepreneurs & Change Agents of all kinds
 Potential Financiers & Investors | Everyday Heroes & Public at Large

Seminar Syllabus

Discover the litmus tests for whether or not you have the makings for a solid and compelling story / presentation / project before you begin or get lost

Discover the steps for going where your material requires in order to inhabit it, bring it into relief, and capture it in a way that will engage audience and sell itself

Discover how authentic transformation shows up or fails to in real life and how THAT shows up or fails to in story / presentation (and how all story and all story creation are always about transformation)

Express story from the bottom up and characters from the inside out (& watch emotional power, structure, and mythic dimension show up on their own)

Confidently promote & present any project as “high concept" with a clear and viable promotional campaign

Learn to coach the creative and collaborative best out of others (without their knowing it)

Achieve every conceivable measure of success AND both influence and transform your industry as you go