In 2021, we set off on a journey to discover how storytelling can help us transform social systems. We had a hunch that stories of heroes and super-charged change efforts were not serving the social sector well, and that somehow, the way we were telling stories of change was holding us back from creating real change.

We knew that we didn’t have all the answers and set out to find fellow travelers who could help us make sense of what we were seeing. We were joined in a Community of Practice, comprised of a group of ten intrepid storytellers from diverse cultures, geographies and genres. Our journey is ongoing, but gathered our emerging learnings from in a compendium.