Narrating Change: Stories for Collective Action

Catalog description

Stories affirm experience. Stories facilitate learning. Stories inspire dreams. Stories galvanize action. Stories are a source of voice and power. Stories are the language of relationship, pattern and context that help us engage and influence the complexities and messiness of existence. In sum, we make meaning and navigate life together using stories. This course explores the ways story can be used to prompt organizational and community change. Theory and methodologies are drawn from many academic, professional and applied fields of practice, including: participatory action research, organizational change, community development, social change and community-based arts. This course is designed for practitioners wanting to improve organizational practice and/or activists working for social change in life affirming ways.