Organizational storytelling

Those tasked with representing your organizational mission must have a deep understanding of your organization’s origin story and institutional milestones. Our priority is to support your team in understanding its unique story, for impact and longevity.

Whole Story helps you and your team identify, codify and document your organization’s methods and signature frameworks to ensure consistent, broad impact as your organization continues to evolve. We produce vibrant, functional Story Kits that can be integrated into your team’s: hiring and onboarding processes, company handbook, communication strategy, external trainings and field-building initiatives.

Integrated Engagement Tools

We manage and collaborate at every stage of product development for a wide range of curriculum, tools and resources, from conceptualization and research through writing and storytelling, design, user testing and implementation.

Whole Story has designed and presented transformative learning experiences and resource tools to thousands of social impact leaders, artists and creative professionals, placing storytelling and creativity at the center.

Our Approach

Our design emerges from a belief that masterful facilitation combined with vibrant story strategies, hold within them antidotes for loneliness experienced in our modern world.

We value a leader’s capacity to authentically connect to the world around them as a 21st century leadership competency.

• Whole Story’s storytelling framework

  • We leverage Whole Story’s unique framework for transformative storytelling and instruction to write and edit course outlines, video scripts, interactive exercises, facilitator guides, instructional frameworks, and other dimensions of your company/team’s initiatives, events and programs

• Integrated learning

  • We apply field-forward knowledge of learning science, adolescent and adult learning and powerful instruction to the design and execution of your project tools and resources

• Creative practice & inquiry

  • We use integrated learning theory and skills to design and develop unique learning experiences, processes and activities for adults, young people, and teams

• Protocols for thinking

  • We give structure and sequence to empower bold conversations about today’s most pressing issues and topics: diversity and equity in philanthropy, storytelling and narrative strategies in organizing and political advocacy, arts and culture strategies in city government and agencies, organizational culture and change theory, educational leadership and personal storytelling for schools, districts and universities.

Content

Whole Story works with you to define core concepts and prescient throughlines at the heart to your institution or initiative. Modules are designed to deepen thinking, create entry points for robust dialogue and facilitate transformative experiences beyond the life of your campaign, conference, festival or program.

Engagements tools include:

• Story-based activities

• Organizational or program-specific content

• Whole Story conversation protocols

• Your organization / company’s core concepts and frameworks

• Internal / external training tools

Format

Each module contains up to 3 unique learning experiences that run 30, 60 and 90 minutes in length. All lessons draw on tenets of transformative storytelling and adult learning theory. Lessons can be used as a stand-alone experience or combined to create up to 10 hours of comprehensive engagement. Modules are designed for use in organizations, conferences, festivals and teams looking to engage stakeholders in the power of story.