These worksheets will help strategists apply what we learned through this project and generate their own research-informed strategies and narratives.
Stories make people want to act. This worksheet will help you identify and test calls to action that can actually make a difference.
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This worksheet will help people develop a theory of change, identify stories and sources that advance that theory of change, and consider messengers and actors.
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This worksheet will offer step-by-step advice for identifying harmful pervasive narratives that may be influencing how people think about the subject of your story, so that you can be mindful of addressing them with the facts, details, and context of your story.
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This short guide will remind story owners of their rights and offer guidance about retaining control of their stories.
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This checklist will help storytellers ensure that they are sharing constructive stories that unmake harmful pervasive narratives and respect the lived experience of the story owner.
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This worksheet will help storytellers share stories that show a path forward, challenge harmful and pervasive narratives and help us connect and care about the people whom the stories are about.
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This worksheet will help storytellers identify the systems that their stories work within and offer ideas for incorporating system elements and history within their stories.
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Telling and sharing stories that drive change means starting with what science tells us makes stories memorable, compelling, and inspiring. This worksheet will walk you through the elements of the narrative arc, the basic plot structures, and the elements of narrative transportation. You’ll also reflect on whose mindset you want to shift through your story.
DownloadBROKE is an opportunity for each of us to examine the stories we tell about poverty and wealth, and to work together to build new narratives rooted in the wisdom of lived experience, narrative power, organizing for economic justice, and social science.
