Can a New Approach to Storytelling Help Us Escape the Metacrisis? We all feel it: a deep, unsettling sense that despite our awareness, technology, and effort, humanity is not changing course. We’re on a bus heading for a cliff, and it feels like no one is driving. We promote sustainability, yet accelerate consumption. We value […]
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Exploring Integral Motivation Theory How can a new motivation theory help us to drive through positive change on both the social and environmental crises of today? Integral Motivation Theory is a brand new motivation model that offers us profound insights on how to work with the higher stages and orientations in motivation theory – especially
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A beginner’s guide to Master Storytelling Storytelling for social and environmental transformation – how do we use a new storytelling theory to drive through positive change on both the social and environmental crises of today? Our FREE introductory workshop on Master Storytelling explores some of the main themes covered in the A beginner’s guide to
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What insights can a Master Storytelling approach to fundraising offer organisations working for positive change on social or environmental issues? How can new insights into motivation and values theory help us to drive powerful fundraising propositions that lead to long-term engagement? Fundraising is never a simple task. It takes insight, knowledge and expertise into human motivation
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Working with metanarratives What will I learn on this workshop? This will be a hands-on workshop where we will explore different metanarratives, understand their nature, and how to craft new metanarratives that can lead to positive change. You will learn: What metanarratives are and how they work The role paradigms play in shaping the metanarratives
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Engaging values – for social and environmental transformation Values are essential to everything we do. Anyone seeking to create long-term behavioural change or social and cultural change must understand how values work and how to engage them. The challenge is that working with values is deceptively challenging. We might do some values exercises when it comes
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Master Storytelling and fundraising What will I learn on this workshop? This is a hands-on workshop to look at the problem with different fundraising propositions and to see how to escape from the thinking traps that keep us in a marketing mindset. You will learn: How to create powerful fundraising propositions that play to higher
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The marketing paradigm is one of the most insidious and dangerous paradigms there is, creating so much harm not only to the natural world but also to the human family and the wellbeing of future generations. So why do we draw from the same paradigm that has caused so much harm to our world in
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Whether it is 90% or 96% of our thinking is unconscious, depending on who you ask and how you measure it, the more important matter is not the number, but the fact that most of our thinking happens below the surface of our attention. It seems such a simple and yet revealing insight that most
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Motivation matters. If we can’t get motivation right with our audiences, then no matter how much energy and resources we put into our work, the results will always be disappointing. Being able to work with and utilise the higher motivational types can yield incredible results. There are broadly two different types of motivation, extrinsic and
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Standard motivational models tend to conflate the different stages of intrinsic motivation (self-regulation) into a single category or to view intrinsic motivation only in terms of utility (i.e. improved outputs).
The result is that our current motivational models are no longer fit for purpose in terms of working with higher values, or how to create long-term behavioural change.
Creating a new and expanded model, utilising insights from neuro-psychology, offers some profound insights on how to create meaningful change on the issues we care about.