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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.
Mapping the Global Democracy Narrative Landscape: Research Findings and Applications
2025
Available in English
This resource synthesises data collected between 2022 and 2024 across 11 countries. Combining large‑scale narrative scans, in‑depth case studies, and message testing, it identifies the dominant and salient pro-democracy and pro-authoritarian narratives, as well as the core values that underpin them. The resource provides practical, evidence‑based guidance for developing effective messaging, emphasising the importance of aligning narratives with people’s tangible realities and core values.
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?
Measuring Narrative Change: Webinar
by ORS Impact
2021
Available in English
On September 15th, 2021, ORS Impact hosted a webinar to discuss some of the opportunities and challenges that animate narrative change measurement. With Neha Singh Gohil, Communications Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, they explored different facets of narratives by identifying relevant and meaningful outcomes, responding to dynamic contexts and learning as you go, and what this might mean for funders and others engaged in this type of work
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