We each inherit narrative maps—stories passed down that tell us who we are, where we belong, and which way is forward. These narrative maps help us make sense of our terrain. They can make one way … [Read more...] about Thinking Narratively
Narratives
Narrative Landscape Mapping
Narrative landscape mapping is an exercise that can help to identify and analyze narratives and their interplay in a given context. Narrative mapping helps us better understand how various groups … [Read more...] about Narrative Landscape Mapping
Countering through Narrative Engagement
Sometimes our collective goal is to dislodge harmful or unhelpful narratives. The question is how we do this strategically and in service of our long-term goals. Horizons’ exploration of counter … [Read more...] about Countering through Narrative Engagement
Our Relationship to The Future: Narratives, Imagination Skills and Futures Literacy
How do we think and talk about the future? This is one of the tension points Horizons has identified within the social change ecosystem: our different feelings about and relationships to the future … [Read more...] about Our Relationship to The Future: Narratives, Imagination Skills and Futures Literacy
History, Resistance and Democracy: Reflections on Visiting the Phoenix Indian School
Members of the Growers Guild recently came together in Phoenix, Arizona. While there, they visited the Phoenix Indian School, which was established in 1891 as a boarding school for American Indian … [Read more...] about History, Resistance and Democracy: Reflections on Visiting the Phoenix Indian School
ICE Violence and the Struggle to Make Meaning:
What Narrative Power Is Doing in Minnesota, and Beyond By Eleonore Wesserle The murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minnesota were not an anomaly or a breakdown. They were … [Read more...] about ICE Violence and the Struggle to Make Meaning:
