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Using narratives to make sense of the world and influence policies, institutions, and cultural norms.
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Data Makes You Credible; Stories Make You Memorable.
Former IRL Senior Advisor Bonnie Cluxton shares a core IRL teaching about storytelling; explicitly naming narrative change as a powerful tool for impact, valuing story alongside data as a legitimate and necessary form of knowledge-sharing.
The Relationship Between Storytelling and Health Equity with Luis Ortega
There are so many narratives that are rooted in a belief system that creates a hierarchy of human value, which is antithetical to efforts to achieve health equity. Countering these narratives is essential so that we can generate new possibilities. To achieve health equity, we need new stories and new narratives that help us to imagine, visualize, and believe in those possibilities.
Principles for Equity-Centered Storytelling: Engaging in critical reflection to transform and heal our narratives
Luis Ortega of Storytellers for Change discusses the practice of equity-centered storytelling. He offers guiding principles, noting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the practice. He invites readers to engage in this practice, and to “…harness the power of narrative to build an equitable world.”
We the Changemakers: Co-creating an equitable, reciprocal, and healing storytelling community
This series is part of an ongoing process to co-craft an equitable, multifaceted, and intersectional narrative of what it means to be a changemaker. We the Changemakers is a project of Storytellers for Change.
Introduction to Asset-Based Storytelling
Storytellers for Change’s Crafting Asset-Based Stories online course focuses on shifting narrative practice towards a strengths-based and equity-centered approach by inviting participants to learn about asset-based storytelling techniques and best practices.
Community Development Narrative Strategy Toolkit
Dominant narratives in community development play a significant role in shaping policies, funding decisions, and resource allocation. To create and implement equitable and anti-racist community development practices, it is essential to critically analyze and challenge these narratives by identifying and deconstructing their underlying biases, assumptions, and stereotypes. By actively engaging in developing anti-racist narrative strategies, community development practitioners can reshape the discourse around racial equity, amplify community-driven efforts that exemplify anti-racist community development practices, and dismantle structures that perpetuate racism. The toolkit utilizes tools designed by Storytellers for Change, aiming to guide users through a five-step process to analyze dominant narratives in community development and devise anti-racist narrative strategies.
