THE LAB / STORYTELLING
Storytelling
Stories make experience visible. They can help people recognise patterns, see a situation from another angle and find language for what matters.
In organisational settings, storytelling can create a bridge between abstract ideas and lived experience. It can help a group explore how meaning is made, whose stories are heard and what changes when another perspective enters the room.
How we use story.
Make ideas tangible
Stories can make complex ideas more accessible and memorable.
Invite reflection
Narrative exercises can invite reflection without asking participants to disclose personal experiences.
Explore perspective
Story can help groups examine identity, belonging, assumptions and the accounts organisations tell about themselves.
What an engagement can look like.
Story-based workshops, narrative exercises, facilitated reflection, case stories and learning experiences that combine story with dialogue and participation. The format is selected to fit the audience, the subject and the purpose.
Care in the telling.
Stories are not neutral material. We consider whose perspective is represented, how an experience is framed and whether a story is being shared with appropriate permission. Participants are not required to share their own stories.
Storytelling is one of the methods held inside the wider Unsaid Labs facilitation practice. Explore The Unsaid Process and Theatre and Experiential Methods.