Narrative Archive

A reflection on various real-life examples of effective narrative work, that has sought to make change by working with hope, play, relationships, and FAILure (‘First Attempt At Learning’).

Advice for people who are being forced to, or asked to choose change. Useful insight for those of us doing the asking. There’s a role for story, as well as envisioning better futures (‘postalgia’).

The provocative title may distract from a simple and important point: we need to broaden our definition of ‘love for nature’ to find that love everywhere, from everyone.

Invoking Donella Meadows: “The future can't be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being”, Zoe calls for love to become the lifeblood of leadership for the changes ahead.

Calling for us to recognise that the “new epistemologies” needed for the climate crisis are already in the world among indigenous peoples, and to listen, “amplify and centre” them now.

The media is failing, or unwilling to rise to the communication challenge climate change presents, and as Katherine Hayhoe put it, “talking is the most important thing we can do.”

"Verified facts can be used to support erroneous conclusions. Here is how we can put an end to that."

A good argument demonstrating that logic, reason and facts don’t win people over (indeed they can be misleading), and also that people don’t sit in neat groups along ideological dividing lines.

A new six-country report “exploring the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s lives, priorities and expectations”, finding crumbling trust, division, and barriers to building crucial consensus and collective action.

Various insights into how the world is seeing climate change, with a suggestion that low understanding of the role of finance might be an opportunity for campaigners.

A new campaign, seeking the “fastest economic transformation in history” toward an “an equitable future on a finite planet”, focused on five “economic turnarounds.”

“What are voters thinking about rising energy bills? TL:DR it's pretty different to what a small fringe of climate sceptic MPs have been promoting.” Read on for four key findings.