What is the Converging Ideas: 

How to use the Converging Ideas: 

• Start with an introduction to your story.

• Set the scene and start your first idea.

• Tell the story about your second idea.

• Explain how the ideas come together.

• End your story with how it became a success.

Benefits of the Converging Ideas: 

• Demonstrates how people collaborated.

• Shows how relationships formed.

• Demonstrates how a development occurred.

• Shows how stories with equal importance came to one significant conclusion.  

Related storytelling techniques: 

• Nested loops
  A storytelling structure that highlights a core story by layering tertiary stories around the main idea 

• False start
  A technique that involves surprising the audience by telling a story that is possible but incorrect and then suddenly transforming the story