Tag: #narrative

Groundwork Collaborative fights to change economic policy and narratives in order to build public power, break up concentrations of private power, and deliver true opportunity and prosperity for all.

Groundwork’s David Ballard focuses on Narrative Strategies and will share some of his expertise and tools to help us craft effective messaging on the economy. David will use the fight against the Republican tax bill to illustrate how to put these ideas into practice and:

• Ensure our communications empower our audiences
• Define what constitutes a winning narrative
• Effectively talk about the people and institutions breaking our economy

After the presentation, our community will have plenty of time to ask David specifics about these tips and how they might be leveraged for your work.

Groundwork deploys economic research, narrative change, and strategic partnerships to help build an economy that works for all.

To join us on Thursday, July 10th from 10 to 11am Pacific, please click below

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Learn more at https://groundworkcollaborative.org/

2026 will be the California Governor’s race.  How can we leverage some of the tools being shared by the experts presenting to WEAll CA this year?   What sort of message do we want to send?  What tools and tactics can we utilize?

This will be an interactive group session where we collectively examine options available to us.

How do we build a collective strategy to get more Californians thinking a Wellbeing Economy is in reach?!

Join us in setting the action plan

Tuesday, June 24th at 4pm.  Sign up HERE

 

You may want to check out our last 2 Narrative training sessions

• Akira Nakahara, Imperative 21 
• Jennifer Messenger, Met Group and Anita Chandra, RAND

Or sign up for one of our 3 upcoming Narrative Learning sessions:

• June 26 – Jasmine Banks, UnKoch My Campus 
• July 7 – Frances Rayner, WEAll Global Communications
• July 10 – David Ballard, Groundwork Collaborative

On Thursday, August 9th at 9am Pacific, we will be joined by Frances Rayner – Communications and Narratives Co-Lead from the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance to share some key insights from recent communications research.

Frances looked at more than 20 studies done on what messaging is most effective to help people think about the economy as something we can redesign in the name of equity and the environment. In this session she’ll share seven key takeaways you can implement in your work.

Frances came to the Global Team after working with the WEAll Scotland team to put the Wellbeing Economy on the national agenda. Prior to that she helped a range of non-profit organisations in Scotland secure policy changes on climate and income inequality through public campaigns.

Join us on Thursday, August 9 at 9am Pacific

Sign up HERE

 

In April, we will discuss what Actions we need to take and what is our Theory of Change to promote our future vision of a Wellbeing Economy

This will build off the work we did in the last 3 sessions:

• Jan – Why are Narratives that undermine Wellbeing Economy messaging so effective
• Feb – What audiences do we want to reach, and What messages do we want to promote
• Mar – Setting our Future Vision

We have built a 2 page Narrative Map to summarize all of the previous work for our own clarity and to make easy for those who are joining us for the first time to participate.  The map includes links to the more detailed version of those sessions.

2 sessions – 10am and 4pm

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Storytelling and Communication is important to the art of Movement Building.  Continuing our 2025 theme of learning from experts and doing exploratory workshops, we are excited to welcome Jasmine Banks for a Q&A session.

Jasmine has been successful across multiple organizations, platforms and communication types.  Some of her projects include Generation Common Good, UnKoch My Campus and the successful podcast Parenting Is Political since 2010.  Jasmine has a substantial online following and led a campaign that had over 2 million views in the first 24 hours.

Sign up HERE

 

Akira Nakahara is the CEO of Imperative 21, a network dedicated to building narrative power for a just and inclusive economy. He is also a co-lead of a new initiative, The Beloved Economies for Narrative Infrastructure working on a multi-year project to bring inclusive and well-being economic ideas into the mainstream.

Imperative 21 is global network building narrative power for a just economy. Strategic partners include: B Lab, The B Team, CECP, Wellbeing Economy Alliance (Global), Forward Global, New Capitalism Project, Common Future, The GIIN, JUST Capital, and Participant.

On Thursday, May 1st,  Akira will share his thoughts on his view of what’s needed to identify winning messages and shift the narrative and take questions from our community on movement or people’s specific organizations and how to improve strategy.

Join us, Thursday May 1st at 9am Pacific
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This is part of our Narrative Series running throughout 2025.

 

 

Storytelling and Communication is important to the art of Movement Building.  Continuing our 2025 theme of learning from experts and doing exploratory workshops, we are excited to welcome Jasmine Banks for a Q&A session on April 10.

Jasmine has been successful across multiple organizations, platforms and communication types.  Some of her projects include Generation Common Good, UnKoch My Campus and the successful podcast Parenting Is Political since 2010.  Jasmine has a substantial online following and led a campaign that had over 2 million views in the first 24 hours.

Thursday April 10th at 11am Pacific

Sign up HERE

 

Our theme for 2025 is how to build winning Narrative Strategies.

This month we are focused on clarifying our Vision of the beautiful future we would like to create together.

Our morning session (10am) will be led by Debilyn Molineaux of AmericanFuture.us. Debilyn has been a leader in the civic engagement field and her new project is aimed at helping people articulate the future they would like to live into.

Our afternoon session (4pm) we will do a slightly different process with the same aim. Helping people give voice to their desired future.

We will produce a final “Vision Statement” from all of our collective voices. This will go into the narrative map we have been constructing.

The workshop is open to everyone even if you have not participated in prior sessions. The map and meeting summaries will be included when you RSVP.

We have also booked several Narrative experts as part of this series:

• March 20 – Akira Nakahara of Imperative 21
• April 10 – Jasmine Banks of UnKoch My Campus
• June 12 – David Ballard of Groundwork Collaborative

  Join us Tuesday, March 18 at 10 am or 4pm Pacific

Sign Up HERE