Narrative Strategy Workshops
What Are Narrative Strategy Workshops?
Narrative strategy workshops help teams, boards, and organizations build shared clarity around the stories that shape their work. These aren’t brainstorming sessions or team-building exercises—they’re facilitated dialogues designed to create narrative coherence across strategy, culture, and action.
How Do Narrative Strategy Workshops Work?
Storytelling as Alignment: We help teams surface and examine the narratives shaping their organization—the stories about mission, identity, culture, and what’s possible. When everyone tells the same story, strategy becomes simpler.
Linking Vision to Action: We translate organizational clarity into concrete next steps. Your narrative isn’t just inspirational—it becomes the framework for decision-making, communication, and execution.
- Grounded in EcoDialogues: We use EcoDialogues—research-grounded, facilitated dialogues designed for complexity—to create space for honest conversation, perspective shifts, and coherence across the personal, relational, and systemic levels.
Who Are Workshops For?
Narrative strategy workshops are for teams, boards, and organizations that need:
Strategic Alignment
When vision, strategy, and culture feel disconnected.
Narrative Coherence
When different stakeholders tell different stories about your work.
Culture Work
When trust, communication, accountability, or decision-making need attention.
Campaign Readiness
When you’re preparing for fundraising, marketing, or organizational change and need everyone aligned.
Leadership Clarity
When teams need shared language and agreements about how to lead.
Are you ready for a NEW STORY?
Blog
In our blog, we explore narrative as both mirror and map.
The Space Between Knowing and Telling
The organizations that struggle most to tell their story are often the ones doing the most important work. The problem is not a writing problem or a branding problem — it is a space problem. And space problems have space solutions.
The Host, Not the Hero
The fundraising sector has grown fluent in a single narrative shape. An organization identifies a problem, mobilizes against it, and asks the donor to fund the rescue.
Narrative as the Architecture of Community Trust
Community needs go unmet for many reasons. A shortfall of funds is the reason most often cited, and the reason most easily measured.
The Wild Within: A Conversation with Environmental Scientist Dr. Kathleen McNary
In this dialogue, RPL’s Robert and Rowan sit down with environmental scientist Dr. Kathleen McNary.
Making Space: A Framework for Narrative Coherence
I have spent nearly twenty years working with mission-driven leaders who know their work matters but struggle to explain why it matters in ways that move people.
The Hidden Power of PR: When a Press Release Reveals More Than a Story
Public relations, when approached with intention, creates pressure to think carefully, sort competing priorities, and hold mission and message together at once.
Targeting Through Insights
Identify high-potential donors through AI-powered wealth screening and data analysis. Align your narrative with the capacity and interests of your audience.
Clarity in the Chaos
Navigate organizational complexity with a framework designed for the real world. Learn to find clarity and alignment when usual systems feel limited.
Building Narrative Coherence
Ensure your organization’s external message matches its internal mission. Explore the path to narrative coherence for lasting strategic impact.