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Published in: Transformation“Bright words:” finding common ground in environmental negotiations
We cannot create what we cannot imagine, and to imagine we need stories and words to tell them.
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Published in: TransformationWhy should we care about stories?
A system that privileges rationality over emotion is a system that protects the status quo. Stories have no such qualms.
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Published in: TransformationThe evisceration of storytelling
Are stories really the magical elixir for social change we imagine them to be?
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Published in: TransformationSharing stories in a broken culture
Respectful relationships are a prior condition for persuasion.
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Published in: TransformationWhy stories matter
Stories cultivate the frequently forgotten yet uniquely human traits that build solidarity. Listen to a recorded...
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Published in: TransformationWhy progressives should worry about the myth gap
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact it’s the other way around.
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Published in: TransformationThe environmental movement: a blockbuster in the making?
Stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things are the building blocks of transformation, but they have to be...
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Published in: TransformationCups of love and cups of courage: facing up to the everyday realities of violence
Structural solutions are vital, but real security starts inside each one of us.
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Published in: TransformationStaying human in a time of climate change
Knowing about climate science isn’t enough. We need to get our hearts involved too.
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Published in: TransformationFacing up to the capitalist within
It’s easy to blame the economic system for causing social and environmental problems, but what is that system built...