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Stories for Life is an inspired collaboration led by Wellbeing Economy Alliance with the Green Economy Coalition, The Spaceship Earth and Friday Future Love. The project’s focus is an ‘invitation to create new economic stories’ that reflect our humanity and can ultimately lead to the design of an economy in the service of life.
Narrative, for WEAll, is integral to all aspects of uprooting the old and re-creating the new global economic system. ‘It is how we communicate about the economy that will ultimately create the base of power that is needed to call for the change to the system.’
In WEAll’s theory of change, knowledge feeds that narrative, which feeds the powerbase which ultimately can reorient the system.
Stories for Life is an open inquiry, exploring the role and power of sto- ries in helping shape a ‘more beautiful, viable, life-sustaining world.’ Key themes include:
- The Narrative of Separation: An exploration of the deep narrative that shapes our relationship with reality and so our economic design.
- The Narrative of Interbeing: A re-introduction to the deep narrative that can help us repair our relationships and redesign our economy.
- Story Reconnections: Healing as reconnection.
Transition by Design
The ‘Stories For Life’ team believe that we need stories that help us better understand how we’re connected with the natural world and each other.
The idea of interconnection, for connection, is in stark contrast to our current narratives that promote separation – separation from nature and from each other - as the prevailing story. Stories of interconnection can be rooted in the stories of our lives, ‘And through these stories, we can then build an economy that is in service to humanity and the environment’. The dominant narrative leaves us vulnerable to a social imaginary that presents humans as innately competitive, isolated and battling in a zero-sum world against other forms of life.
In the process, the very qualities that we now know to be crucial for our evolution, including kindness, compassion, cooperation, empathy, diversity, care and humility, are presented in the corporate media as soft, weak and as inhibitors to ‘success’.
Guided by this narrative of separation, isolation and alienation the dominant economic system has been designed to run on extractive production processes and disposable consumption experienced as shallow compensations for lives that too often hunger for meaning, connection and contact with our formative call to ‘live with’ and not exclusively for our isolated selves.
Key words: ‘Stories for life’; narrative; transition by design;
Wellbeing economy links: narratives and kindess, compassion, cooperation, empathy, diversity, care and humility
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