Positive, sustained change begins when we understand the stories that shape our lives. As people acknowledge and retell these stories, they identify their own overlooked skills, knowledge, expertise, and strengths. They can then co-create new, more positive stories that inspire and propel personal and collective transformation—and greater movement toward their desired goals. These new, more positive stories can move mountains.

This narrative and relational approach invites people to reclaim and co-create their own stories of strength and hope. It helps bridge divides, heal relationships and leverage a group’s diversity as people coalesce around common goals and col­lective action.

These narrative and relational practices also enable change to happen faster and to take root more deeply, because it is built on a new, shared story, co-created by the community and based on its own experience.