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Human beings are natural meaning makers. Like it or not, we simply can’t help but create connections and make meaning of our experiences.

Story is a fundamental component of the human meaning making process. Having narrative brains, we are predisposed to use elements of story to organize and store information.

By employing even simple nouns and verbs, humans communicate meaning in a nutshell and create a sort of mini-story, which Dr. Renée Fuller identifies as a basic unit for organizing information. She calls this organizing unit a story-engram and points out that, “bits of information cannot function as thinking units unless we make story-engrams with them.” read more…