We do not have divisions or fixed roles and responsibilities. We organize and remix our activities for the projects we work in. To meet our customers where they want to go.

Our hubs and labs are spaces of inspiring intensity.

Event Hub

With our flagship event “Beyond Storytelling” – the conference on narrative work and storytelling in organizations – we are striving to advance theory and practice of working with stories in organizations, communities and beyond, and connecting narrative practitioners across professions all over the world. Beside this, we are keen to expand and re-think existing formats like camps, retreats, and story circles.

Consulting Hub

As narrative and systemic practicioners we distrust the notion of consulting experts living outside the system they intervene. Instead we privilege the particulars of lived experience and co-construction of local or insider knowlegdes often stores in stories. Stories are “in some deep sense a joint product of the teller and the told.“ (Jerome Bruner). That is why the exploration of how the “stories we live by” come to existence and how we can shape them, is an important aspect of thinking and muddling through organizational change and the transformation of an organizational identity. It is not only about how to craft an artful story, but narratives that relate to a deeper sense of identity, for organizations and individuals within them. That define what we think leadership can and should be. That define what our organizations and brands stand for.

Branding Hub

A brand can be much more than a name or a symbol; it can be a whole experience. This experience gets strong and convincing when it is connected to the organizational myth as well as to the customer. Given the complex media environment of today a lot of businesses struggle to get their message heard. Good stories promise to stick out from the masses and to be heard by our customers, partners and constituents. In a world of likewise products it is the story we buy. With strong brands one can build up narrative territories, which can serve as platforms for storysharing customers.

Training Hub

We are kind of “reflecting surfaces” trying out new things, developing new formats, testing new methods and reflecting them continuously. We do not impose our theory into practice, but extract it from there. This is also true for our training course with a university certificate: "Narrative Organizational Consulting" is designed as a storylab where all contents are conveyed in a practice-oriented manner and can be immediately integrated by the participants into their specific field of work – to finally support companies in recognizing and using their narrative dimension.

Research Lab

The strenghts of this collective journey lies in our commitment to continuously co-reflect and supervise our work as facitlitators, setting up valuable sign posts in the narrative terrain for colleagues across Europe and beyond. Welcome side effects are books like “Beyond Storytelling. Narrative Ansätze und die Arbeit mit Geschichten in Unternehmen” (2017), “Transforming Organizations. Narrative and Story-Based Approaches” (2019), “Narrative Organisationen. Wie die Arbeit mit Geschichten Unternehmen zukunftsfähiger macht. (2020)” and “Narrative Organisationsberatung. Ein Arbeitsbuch mit Fallbeispielen (2022)”. Or the READER we did for the BST Conference 2018 in Hamburg (as downloadable pdf), the Berlin Conference and StoryCamp in Paretz 2020/2021 with the title POWER OF STORY / STORIES OF POWER, or the StoryCamp in Goldegg 2022 with the title “ENDINGS & BEGINNINGS”. For more information go to our books section.

Narrative Wonder Lab

The narrative approach is not only a means of reflection in the hand of the facilitator, but also fueling the creative soul. A way to deal with artistic and sociocultural challenges in different fields of creative work – resulting in storyboards, keynotes, videos, essays, novels, and exhibitions. When we go down the Rabbit hole we feel a bit like Alice searching for the power of wonderland in a world that has sacrificed our mysteries in the name of what is supposedly proven to erase the notion of a world that is revolting against the status quo.