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Rinku Sen named Executive Director of Narrative Initiative
Rinku Sen succeeds founding Executive Director Jee Kim to help the social sector harness the power of narrative to make progress towards a more equitable and socially just world.
Polyvocal narrative strategy: Turning many voices into durable change
Polyvocality is the power of many voices to shift and sustain narrative change. Polyvocality can shape culture, politics and society.
Thinking with our eyes: Understanding the power of visual narrative
We think with our eyes. Here, Liz Banse of Resource Media shares case studies show how visual narrative strategies move people with photos, video and more.
Our futures now: Turning imagination into narrative power
Narrative Initiative connects futures and narrative to create power. This article describes why futures are important to narrative projects and how to use futures in your work.
Four Baskets: Necessary capacities for narrative change
The Four Baskets hold capacities and processes needed to create, implement and continually strengthen narrative change projects. As they are filled, the Four Baskets (Create, Translate, Deploy and Observe Together) provide campaigners, communicators and leaders with a framework for doing narrative change.
Waves: A model for deep narrative change
Waves is both a simple illustration and a model that unpacks the complex relationship between values, narratives and stories.
Constructing Gravity: Frameworks and tools for narrative change
Constructing Gravity is a series of Narrative Initiative articles sharing resources, tools and opportunities for reflecting on how to create, deploy, measure and improve narrative change.
Reclaiming Native Truth: Narrative research and making Native Americans visible
Leah Salgado of IllumiNative on how narrative research maps a path to visibility and power while also supporting responses to COVID-19.
Narrative and COVID-19: Resources and reading lists
The Coronavirus pandemic is shaping (and being shaped by) narratives. These articles, essays, ideas and research offer guidance and insights into narrative change strategy in the context of COVID-19.
Narrative change happens fast
Narrative change happens fast in times of crisis and national trauma. We look at how the “terrorist” stories of this past week (and the weeks and months after 9/11) shift American life and how Arnold Schwarzenegger’s video message puts a new “story of us” into the narrative.