The stories of change writeshop offers a guided writing experience in which you have the opportunity to write and share a story of change that you experienced, and feel is worth sharing. About a change in which power played a critical role, either for the good or as an obstruction for the desired change.

Writing is best learned through writing. This mini-writeshop introduces you to a collective, creative and structured approach to reflect, learn and document stories about social change. The step-by-step method guides you through a series of prompts that enable you to freely download all the ingredients of your story. This includes both tangible elements (such as location, characters and outcomes), as well as intangible aspects (such as feelings, relationships and hidden agendas).

Short feedback-rounds with co-writers will help you to sharpen your thoughts, get to the essence of the story, inspire each other and gain new insights together. You experience ways to give and receive open, honest and transparent feedback on writing products. By fleshing out a conversation and/or using images, you learn ways to bring your story to live.

“The absolute silence of everyone simultaneously writing on their own stories is magical.”

We start by asking you to zoom in on a situation in which power was a main influencer. In the reflection rounds we will explicitly address this and explore the underlying forces that are at play.

For both gifted writers and those with writer’s block.

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