Share and create more regenerative narratives

Whether we know it or not, we all spend our days playing out a story of who we tell ourselves we are: a story that informs our behaviours and our world view. But humans also play out a collective story of who we are: a story that has us believe we are exclusively selfish and competitive, we are separate from nature, and that status and wealth are crucial for our happiness. This action area invites us to generate new stories: stories about our deeply collaborative traits, stories about our interconnected relationships with the living world, and stories from a variety of emerging voices that have not been heard enough.

Regenerators

The Regenerators platform is a regenerative solutions hub that has been built to amplify the many amazing individuals and organisations around the world who are taking action to regenerate and heal ourselves, our communities and our planet. 

• Watch Regenerators co-founder Damon Gameau’s TEDx Talk “Retelling the story of humans and nature”
• Explore our curated library of Stories of Regeneration 
• Are you a Regenerator, or do you know of a Regenerator, who would like to be featured on the Regenerators Platform? Get in touch so we can share your story! 
• Watch and share stories about hope and regenerative action including our films 2040 and Regenerating Australia

Stories for Life

Stories for life is a collaboration with the mission to help create stories that contribute to the re-design of a healthier economy that is #InServiceToLife, and to help us all connect to this understanding as we seek to navigate our collective challenges. 

• Watch ‘Stories for Life’ 
• Learn about The Creative Challenge: Story-led Change
• Download graphic assets to use in your own projects
• Help grow the story collection

Common Ground

Common Ground is a First Nations-led not-for-profit working to shape a society that centres First Nations people by amplifying knowledge, cultures and stories.

• Learn and celebrate First Nations knowledge, cultures and stories
• Watch First Nations Bedtime Stories - an annual week of storytelling by Common Ground that brings Dreaming stories into homes and classrooms around Australia.

Digital Storytellers

Digital Storytellers are on a mission to empower a wider community of purpose-driven leaders to harness the power of story and change systems for the better. 

• Learn how to lead through story which includes both storytelling and story listening
• Download the Regenerative Story Guide 
• Join a storytelling workshop or training

Marlikka Perdrisat

Marlikka Perdrisat works across academia, film, and law to spread awareness of First Law, the guiding principles that First Peoples generated over aeons to govern the diverse bioregions within the land mass currently known as Australia. Marlikka is also a digital storyteller and researcher with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, an alliance of Traditional Owners who have come together to stand with One Mind and One Voice as a united Council of Senior Elders from Traditional Owner Groups of the King Sound, Fitzroy River, and its Catchment.

“First Nations people have spent tens of thousands of years customising languages and laws to their country. Each tribe was, and is, influenced by their natural environment, responding to a unique collection of species that have grown to co-exist in balance in that place. Land, language and law and all entwined.” - Marlikka Perdrisat 

• Watch Marlikka Perdrisat TEDxSydney talk ‘The future will be written with the language of the past’
• Read ‘Indigenous Natural and First Law in Planetary Health’ co-authored by Marlikka Perdrisat
• Read ‘The determinants of Planetary Health: an Indigenus Consensus Perspective’ co-authored by Marlikka Perdrisat

Brené Brown

Brené Brown is a researcher and storyteller who has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She says, “If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear.” 

• Watch the series or read the book Atlas of the Heart that is mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience 
• Learn about the Practices of Story Stewardship

Telling regenerative stories is part of a larger collective response. Learn more and find other actions here.

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