A creative futures storytelling toolkit of multi-art form activities; a toolkit to support anyone wanting to excavate alternative narratives

when working with stories for social change.

Curated & created by Jo Turbitt (2023)

Toolkit:

suggestions & inspiration

The story of 'The Fisherman, The Selkie & The Moon' has been used to provide examples of responses to the activities in this toolkit. For this story and more, please see the 'resource section' towards the bottom of this toolkit.

Tools for excavating:

Mindmapping

(text activity)

The Glimpser

(visual activity)

The Glimpser (Shonaleigh Cumbers Druts'yla storytelling tradition)

Gesture/ improv

(physical activity)

AI art generator

(Bonus activity!)

'Stable Diffusion', a free AI art generator.

Using key words such as 'excavating' 'climate action' 'sea' 'selkie' etc... I used the AI tool to create the unique images in this toolkit.

Give it a go for your story/ stories; use them as ways of excavating alternative narratives, providing different starting points, provocations for discussion or prompts for reflection... the list is endless!