The stories we tell shape the future we believe is possible.
What story are you telling about your community?
Piper facilitates community storytelling experiences that inspire collective imagination, community healing, and narrative change.
Through initiatives like Mass Story Lab, Rikers Public Memory Project, Piper has brought her narrative change methodology to communities nationally inspiring transformative social change.
Story Labs: An Advocacy Storytelling Experience
Story Lab Process in Three Parts:
Centering Directly Impacted Voices
5-7 community members share a story about their experience with systemic injustice.
Community Dialogue
Audience members engage in a facilitated dialogue that honors the contributions of the storytellers.
Creative Action
Participants join small groups to respond to a call to action and devise strategies for justice based on what they learned from the stories. .
How Communities Use Story Labs?
Launch an advocacy campaign.
Transform the narrative around social systems and their impact on communities.
Galvanize support for policy change.
Mobilize the community to take action.
Begin the process of repairing harm.