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Engaging Organizers on Climate Migration: How do we create Content to Grow Our Audiences With/Behind/to Push Our Solutions?
Two new resources offer narrative guidance for climate and migrant justice organizers looking for a place to start.
Mar 245 min read


The Narrative North Star: How building alignment on a shared worldview can strengthen movements
Narrative alignment can be a force for evil, or a force for good. We see how corporations, politicians, influencers, media, and talking...
Feb 287 min read


Narrative Power in Crisis: How to Narrate Towards Action
A key element of the Trump administration's strategy is to convince the public that the MAGA movement is unstoppable. They will...
Jan 174 min read


DIY Narrative Research Methods in Narrative Organizing
Narrative research is a vital tool for any organization, foundation, coalition, or network working with frontline communities.
Nov 20, 20246 min read


Orienting Together: Mapping your Narrative Landscape
Narrative Landscaping is critical to successful narrative organizing and a great place to start.
Oct 26, 20236 min read


Who are you talking to? The audience of an op-ed
The communications used for any narrative change project must have an audience. You need an audience who is open to change and willing to...
Apr 21, 20225 min read


Narrative Organizing: How we shift power towards justice
Narrative organizing is the act of building, creating and using narrative to shift power towards justice, equity and democracy. Narrative...
Oct 6, 20214 min read


Narrative and COVID-19: Resources and reading lists
The Coronavirus pandemic is shaping (and being shaped by) narratives. These articles, essays, research and resources offer insights into...
May 7, 20209 min read


Neoliberalism is dying. What narratives can replace it?
Neoliberalism has been the dominant political and economic paradigm for the last 40 years. It has redistributed wealth and power upward,...
Aug 22, 20195 min read


Narrative Change: A Working Definition (and Some Related Terms)
Starting in 2016, Narrative Initiative began gathering up different ways people talk about narrative change, how it’s structured, and how...
May 16, 20193 min read


Toward New Gravity Today
Recapping, and reflecting on, what over 100 changemakers told us about narrative change. The human impulse–no, necessity– to make sense...
May 14, 20195 min read

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