How can we tell systems change stories that are more reflective of how change really happens ?

The Collective Change Lab’s Systems Storytelling Project works with collective system change efforts to deepen leaders’ capacities in non-dominant methods and techniques for storytelling that foster collective meaning-making.

CCL works with a diverse group of Systems Storytellers who have a diversity of lived and learned experiences with various genres of storytelling.

Meet CCL's System Storytellers

Our Learning Journey

Nearly a year ago, we set off on a journey to discover how Storytelling can help us transform social systems. Our journey is ongoing, but we would like to share our emerging learnings from the systems storytelling initiative in this compendium.

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Emerging Themes

#SystemsStorytelling - During our first convening of renowned storytellers from all corners of the globe, several themes have started to emerge about how to tell stories in ways that are more reflective of how systems change actually happens.