narrative change

Imagining and articulating possibilities is how all flourishing futures begin. Stories are the origination point of world-building.

Multiple stories build and connect to form a larger narrative. That narrative can be a road map for a society, a nation. And unlike a story which is about someone else and has an ending, a narrative is opened ended and impacted by your actions. A narrative gives a call to action and a roadmap to the future. For many it creates their entire

People think in stories. Stories ground ideas in human experience and mint new metaphors that reveal how the world is changing

Stories are how we gain a sense of control of the future because they supply us with a role in the story, a vector of meaning at every beat, and the promise of more meaning to come.

Winger-Bearskin writes, “today the stories we tell are embedded in networks and pixels instead of wampum and rivers, but they may still have the power to last through seven generations, to influence the lives of my great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren, for the people I do not yet know, and those I have only met in dreams.”