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Imagining the Otherwise Curriculum: Choose Your Own Adventure

by Lucila Sandoval & Fenya Fischle | Global Narrative Hive & Intrasentido

2026

Available in English

Developed through a global writers' cohort, this curriculum offers a practical and adaptable framework for facilitating narrative change processes. Structured around five thematic modules, it combines readings, discussion prompts, writing exercises, and collective reflection activities drawing on abolitionist thought, Indigenous resistance practices, queer and feminist literature, historical memory, speculative fiction, and somatic approaches. Throughout, participants are invited to reflect on how stories shape what societies perceive as possible, dangerous, and worth protecting.

Mapping the Currents: A Manual for Community-Centered Cinema

by Jen Tarnate, Aghniadi, Patrick F. Campos, and Karmela Indoyon  

2025

Mapping the Currents: A Manual for Community‑Centered Cinema draws on the Cinemata Currents 2025 film festival and hybrid screenings to share lessons on using film as a tool for fostering civic engagement. The guide explores community‑centred curation, collective screenings, and facilitated dialogue, offering case studies, reflections, and practical tools to support locally grounded film programmes and narrative practice across diverse contexts.

Measuring Narrative Change: Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity

by ORS Impact

2021

Available in English

Better understanding and measuring progress is an important part of strengthening narrative change strategies. This brief offers insights into some of the questions facing practitioners, funders, and others interested in measuring this kind of work: How do you lay the foundations for successful measurement? What short- and longer-term signals can you look for to indicate that things are moving in the right direction? And how can you understand the impact of narrative change efforts when they’re happening in complex, dynamic environments?

Safe and Free: A messaging guide for communicators fighting violence against women

by Civil Liberties Union for Europe e.V

2025

Available in English

Liberties has created a messaging guide to help communicators avoid the common pitfalls when talking about fighting violence against women and how they should build a persuasive narrative instead.

The guide:

  • Highlights the most common messaging mistakes you might be making when talking to a public audience,
  • Explains why these bad habits don't work or even backfire
  • Tells you how to build a narrative that builds public support for a violence-free life for women, including how to respond to gendered disinformation and improve their understanding of target audiences
  • Provides sample messaging that you can adapt to your own campaigns.

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