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
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