Posts tagged storytelling
“There are few tales worth remembering that don’t have uncertainty woven into them. Without uncertainty we have mission statements, not myth”
If we became the best storytellers we could possibly be, says Rob Hopkins, we'd shape our social futures better
A BETTER MEDIA, ARTISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LOCALISM, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kanerob hopkins, civic square, transition network, transition towns, storytelling, power of story, new narratives, narrative
Alternative Editorial: What's The Medium For This Message?
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BEHAVIOUR, BOUNCE BEYOND, CREATE THE FEEL, PLANET A, SHAPE THE SYSTEMpat kanealternative media, communication, social media, narrative, storytelling, propaganda, soft power
“With land we can” - a story that can break our passive, resigned relationship to land, from Future Narratives Lab and Shared Assets
Yearn for the vast and endless sea (if you really want the boat built). More In Common suggest new post-Covid stories to inspire and unite us
What are the stories in our head, and our culture, that inhibits us from embracing ethical finance? Future Narratives Lab tells us
A winter's tale to start another climate-crisis year: The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Redux)
"Post-COVID, we'll need to be able to explain why grassroots venues, basements, skateparks, co-ops and community centres matter." So document their culture
David Byrne's We Are Not Divided explores our capacity, and our deep desire, to bridge our divides
"Most people are forced to live inside someone else’s imagination!" So create preferable stories about your community’s future, says Narrative Initiative
"How we talk about COVID-19 affects how we respond to it": Ella Saltmarshe on framing our corona-stories towards the common good
Story as light, story as glue, story as web: Ella Saltmarche on the ways tales can help us see and fix systems
The Politics of Waking Up, Part 7: Everyone Has a Story
If we want a big narrative to shape politics, Monbiot's "Restoration" idea might not be enough. Do we need to add a story of "Emergence"?
A report from the #SchoolStrike: First in our new AlterNatives strand - personal stories of making change
“A system that privileges rationality over emotion is a system that protects the status quo”. How stories can help break through