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Culture is shaped by the stories we tell and live by. To create meaningful change, we must transform these narratives—moving beyond the dominant stories of endless growth and separation from nature toward ones rooted in interconnection, care, and regeneration.
This section gathers practical tools and creative approaches for narrative change. It invites you to engage with ecological storytelling, myth, metaphor, and embodied ways of knowing that open space for new meanings and social imaginaries to emerge. These tools help challenge limiting worldviews and inspire collective imagination, enabling communities to envision and co-create more just, sustainable, and flourishing futures.
Whether you are a storyteller, artist, educator, or changemaker, this collection supports you in crafting narratives that reconnect people to place, culture, and the living world—sparking shifts in values, identity, and possibility.
The Public Narrative Framework is a powerful storytelling tool developed by Marshall Ganz, designed to help cultural creatives and community leaders communicate their values, motivations, and vision in ways that inspire meaningful social change.
The Public Narrative Framework is a powerful storytelling tool developed by Marshall Ganz, designed to help cultural creatives and community leaders communicate their values, motivations, and vision in ways that inspire meaningful social change.
Stories for Life is a collaboration led by the 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.
Stories for Life is a collaboration led by the 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.
Three Stories of Our Times is a powerful narrative framework from the Work That Reconnects, offering a fresh lens on global realities and our place within them. These three stories—Business as Usual, The Great Unraveling, and The Great Turning—help us make sense of the complex challenges and choices facing humanity today.
Three Stories of Our Times is a powerful narrative framework from the Work That Reconnects, offering a fresh lens on global realities and our place within them. These three stories—Business as Usual, The Great Unraveling, and The Great Turning—help us make sense of the complex challenges and choices facing humanity today.
Some examples of groups working on narrative change:
Organised around the postactivism of Dr Bayo Akomolafe, ‘Dancing with Mountains’ is a course/carnival of learning, based in India, for those who believe that the present times call for unprecedented forms of organisation, bold new thinking in the direction of ‘exquisite formulations’, and a form of coming together that emphasizes that people are not reducible to their jobs.
Read about this project in our Call to Action
An Invitation to Post-Activism by Báyò Akómoláfé
A community engagement project in Derry-Londonderry grounded in the circular economy, that uses the arts and creative practice to encourage behaviour change and challenge attitudes to waste, consumption and climate action.
The Playhouse is working with partners Zero Waste Northwest, Northern Ireland Resources Network, Queens University Belfast and Derry City and Strabane District Council to co-ordinate and deliver a programme of creative activities.
Culture Hacks Lab is a non-profit consultancy based in the US that is supporting organisations, social movements and activists in the creation of cultural interventions for systems change. The Lab operates as a decentralised network of researchers, movement leaders, social scientists, strategists, artists, communications and political strategists.
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