Want to dive deeper?
You don’t need to read any of this to use the guide, but these are some of the thinkers, practitioners, and frameworks that informed it, and good places to go deeper.
Narratives, Framing & Meaning
The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Don’t Think of an Elephant, George Lakoff
Features of Narratives, FrameWorks Institute
Public Narrative, Collective Action and Power, Marshall Ganz
Finding the Right Messenger for Your Message, Wright, Neimand and Steinman, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Climate Narratives & Communication
Six Ways to Change Hearts and Minds About Climate Change, FrameWorks Institute
Communication Handbook for IPCC authors, Climate Outreach
Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions, Emily Coren and Hua Wang
Science v. Story, Emma Bloomfield
Hot Takes: Every Journalist’s Guide to Covering Climate Change, Sadie Babits
Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change, Andrew Kalaidjian
We All Die at the End: Storytelling in the Climate Apocalypse, Sam Haddow
Storytelling, Power & Social Change
Re:Imagining Change, Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough
The Storytellers’ Guide to Changing Our World, Culture Surge
Narrative Design Toolkit, Butterfly Lab
Story Tech: Power, Storytelling and Social Change Advocacy, Ariadne Vromen, Filippo Trevisan and Michael Vaughan
Spotlight on Impact Storytelling, Potts, Lowell, and Manne
Common Cause Handbook, Public Interest Research Centre
The Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker
Imagination, Futures & Systems Change
New Narratives and Future Visioning, Climate KIC
Imaginable, Jane McGonigal
Active Hope, Joanna Macy and Chris JohnstoneThe Art of Thinking Differently, Karim Benammar