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Public Narrative Workshop Participant Guide – English

Leading Change Network

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    Guides and slides

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    Global

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    Public narrative

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    English

This is a guide in English for participants of public narrative workshops based on the work of Marshall Ganz.

What is public narrative?

Public narrative is a leadership practice that enables people to act on shared values and join together in collective action. By telling our story of self, story of us, and story of now, we can articulate the origins of why “I” care (who am I), why “we” care (who are we as a community), and why “now” (urgency), and motivate people to join us. Learn more about public narrative here.

This workshop guide introduces public narrative (story of self, us, now, and linking self, us & now), based on the leadership and organizing framework by Marshall Ganz. This guide has been developed over many years by trainers practicing organizing and conducting workshops.

For support in planning your workshops, please check out Guide for Trainers. If you need coaching and further support in designing your workshops, please reach out to resources@leadingchangenetwork.org.

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