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Building

Narrative

Power

Building

Narrative

Power

The Power

to Define

What’s True

The Power

to Define

What’s True

to SHAPE

OUR VALUES

AND BELIEFS,

To shape

our values

and beliefs

And

Institutionalize

Ideas so they

And

Institutionalize

Ideas so they

take root

and 

REPLICATE

take root

and

replicate

THIS IS

NARRATIVE

POWER

this is

narrative

power

BNPower:

Building Narrative Power

A set of multimedia tools that explore why some ideas take root while others disappear.

Beyond Story Podcast

The Beyond Story podcast, hosted by Makani Themba, features three fun silo busting episodes that stretch our understanding of what it means to build narrative power and transform the institutions that shape how we make sense of the world.

Narrative Power: The Epic Adventure

Animated Film & Discussion Guide

Join Fannie and her new-found friends on their journey through the narrative forest as they work together to discover the truth about narrative power—and what we can do to build it right where we are.

TRT: 27 minutes

BNPower Toolkit

Explore actions you (and your fellow collaborators) can take to build narrative power where you live and work—and across the many institutions and cultural spaces that shape what we, as a society, think, know, and believe.

Building narrative power requires

that we work together.

Gather

with your community, staff, partners, constituents or other stakeholders.
Use these tools in events, classrooms, conferences, and convenings of all types.
Explore and create opportunities to build narrative power—across sectors and issues—for transformative social change.

“If you can write a nation’s stories,
you needn’t worry about who
makes its laws.”

— George Gerbner