Kieran O'Brien

Director of Ministory, Kieran has over 20 years of working in the charity sector on a wide range of creative projects and campaigns. He is a thought leader who advocates for a radical rethink about how we engage and motivate audiences for positive change. His central belief is that what holds us back is the wholesale adoption of marketing logic within cause-driven organisations. Instead, he argues, we need to think less like marketers, and more like storytellers. This is not just about telling stories, which we already do, but rather understand how to work with both narratives (explicit information) and metanarratives (implicit information), and how this deeper approach to audience engagement can lead to deeper change. Experienced storyteller, speaker, trainer and consultant with a range of clients, Kieran is the creative driving force in bringing stories into life through videos, animations and printed materials.

Storytelling Training: 4 – Storytelling and values

Session 5 Storytelling and values All values hold a dynamic relationship with each other, in this session we will be exploring those dynamic relationships and how storytelling is key to helping us embed certain values in our day-to-day lives. By helping to shape inner narratives through specialised storytelling, and linking audiences to a higher sense […]

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Storytelling Training: 3 – Storytelling and the unconscious

Session 3 Storytelling and the unconscious. Most of our decisions, motivation drivers and values are driven by unconscious forces. If we are to really motivate audiences into actions we need a better understanding of the unconscious mind to help unlock some of the biggest challenges we face with audience engagement. We will explore new insights

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Storytelling Training: 1 – Beyond the marketing paradigm

Session 1 Introducing storytelling: beyond the marketing paradigm. What is storytelling and why we all need to become better storytellers if we are to really inspire and motivate audiences into taking meaningful action on climate related issues. In this training we will explore how to transcend the logic of the marketing paradigm and move to

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New motivational theory

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.