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Worksheets

These worksheets will help strategists apply what we learned through this project and generate their own research-informed strategies and narratives.

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Finding Meaningful Calls to Action

Stories make people want to act. This worksheet will help you identify and test calls to action that can actually make a difference.

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Building a Narrative Strategy for Economic Justice

This worksheet will help people develop a theory of change, identify stories and sources that advance that theory of change, and consider messengers and actors.

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Identifying Harmful Pervasive Narratives

This worksheet will offer step-by-step advice for identifying harmful pervasive narratives that may be influencing how people think about the subject of your story, so that you can be mindful of addressing them with the facts, details, and context of your story.

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Self-Care for Storytellers (or, Your Story Is Yours)

This short guide will remind story owners of their rights and offer guidance about retaining control of their stories.

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A Rubric for Telling Better Stories: Should You Tell That Story?

This checklist will help storytellers ensure that they are sharing constructive stories that unmake harmful pervasive narratives and respect the lived experience of the story owner.

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How to Tell Transformative Stories

This worksheet will help storytellers share stories that show a path forward, challenge harmful and pervasive narratives and help us connect and care about the people whom the stories are about.

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How to Put Systems in Your Stories

This worksheet will help storytellers identify the systems that their stories work within and offer ideas for incorporating system elements and history within their stories.

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Story Building

Telling and sharing stories that drive change means starting with what science tells us makes stories memorable, compelling, and inspiring. This worksheet will walk you through the elements of the narrative arc, the basic plot structures, and the elements of narrative transportation. You’ll also reflect on whose mindset you want to shift through your story.

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