Systems Storytelling Capacity Building Initiative
Background
As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) SUPER Learning Study, Collective Change Lab partnered with a set of grantee organizations through the Systems Storytelling Capacity Building Initiative to explore how systems storytelling can function as both a learning practice and a systems change intervention. Across varied contexts—policy advocacy, economic equity, land justice, and youth research—these initiatives tested how relational, narrative-based practices can surface community wisdom, illuminate power dynamics, and support more coherent, equity-centered systems strategies.
Together, these partnerships contributed practice-based insights to the broader learning study while advancing each organization’s unique systems change goals.
Click on any of the organizations below to learn more from their experience integrating systems storytelling into their work.

