New! Featured Essays on Narrative

Is Narrative Strategy a Communications Strategy The short answer is yes... if we understand that everything we do is a form of communications. This essay explores the importance of integrating narrative strategy into campaign and organizational strategies to realize the full power that narratives can have in shaping our work and moving our agendas.
A Narrative of Rural Abundance: A Case Study of Land Stewardship Project’s Narrative Strategy The Land Stewardship Project (LSP) has been working to change the public conversation for three and a half decades. In 2015, LSP began working with GPP on a lengthy process to develop and implement an integrated narrative strategy that reconnects leaders and members with the implicit values and principles that inspire the organization and its constituency. This case study shares the story behind LSP’s narrative strategy: how it informs their communications and organizing, and what it has meant for both their internal cohesion and overall effectiveness. Using a grounding narrative, LSP works across political fault-lines, expanding the space and scope of what is politically possible.
At the Intersection of Power and Hope: Narrative Change In Minnesota GPP Senior Strategist Dave Mann shares his reflections about the ways in which narrative strategies have grown/evolved in Minnesota over the past 16 years and the impact they are having on organizations internally and on their effectiveness. Additionally, Dave shares insights on the role of narrative strategy in shaping the broader work of Our Minnesota Future. Dave concludes with reflections on the challenges groups have faced and what is needed to make this work more effective moving forward in Minnesota but also for other organizations and alignment groups interested in undertaking this work.

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As Blow points out, Trump is attacking the four women in Congress who look like the future of America. This future terrifies many of his supporters.

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In The New York Times Opinion Section, Charles M. Blow writes, "There can be no more discussion or debate about whether or not Trump is a racist. He is. There can be no more rhetorical juggling about not knowing what’s in his heart. We see what flows out of it."

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Too good not to share. h/t Sharon Kleinbaum

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After Istanbul voters rejected Turkish strongman Erdogan, he made them vote again -- and lost by the biggest landslide in 35 years

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