Stories We Become asks for a real commitment of time and attention. You don't need to be perfectly consistent, but the experience becomes much richer when you can participate in the live sessions and give yourself some space between them.

If you're currently in a period where you can't make that commitment, it may be better to join a later cohort.

The live sessions are an important part of the experience because much of the learning happens through conversation, collective reflection and co-creation. We strongly encourage you to aim for at least 70% attendance.

Across the journey, you'll work with personal stories, cultural narratives, future scenarios, writing, visual prompts, conversation, mapping, reflection and narrative design exercises.

Some weeks involve deeper individual reflection. Others centre on dialogue, small-group work, collective sensemaking or designing and testing alternative narratives.

Stories We Become isn't primarily about acquiring more knowledge. It's about creating the conditions to notice, connect, question and apply what you already know.

Yes. Stories We Become can be particularly meaningful if you're in a period of professional transition and are questioning what you want your work to become.

The experience gives you space to explore the stories, expectations and definitions of success that have shaped your relationship with work — while imagining different possibilities for how you might contribute, create and live.

Rather than helping you choose a specific career path, the programme helps you develop a deeper awareness of what is changing, what you are moving away from, what is emerging, and what kind of future you want to rehearse.

You don't need to arrive knowing your next step. You can come with a question, a sense that something is changing, or simply the feeling that the story you've been living by no longer fits.

Social and systemic change is shaped not only by the structures we work within, but also by the stories through which we understand those structures — what we believe is possible, what we consider valuable, and what kinds of futures we can imagine.

Stories We Become gives you space to examine the narratives underlying your work: the assumptions, metaphors, cultural beliefs and ideas about progress, success, human behaviour or the future that may be influencing how you frame a problem and what solutions you can see.

You'll learn to move between the personal, cultural and systemic dimensions of a story, then use narrative design to imagine and begin rehearsing alternatives.

You might apply this to a real project, organisation or challenge you're working on — questioning an existing narrative, identifying what it makes possible or impossible, and exploring what could change if the underlying story changed.

The aim isn't to give you a formula for systemic change. It's to develop your capacity to see more of the system, question the stories organising it, and participate more consciously in shaping what comes next.

Both. Stories We Become explores the relationship between the stories we carry personally and the narratives shaping our organisations, cultures and wider systems.

We move between Me → Us → World, asking how stories shape what we see, value and make possible — and how changing our relationship to those stories can open up new ways of seeing, designing and acting.

Not exactly. While storytelling is part of the practice, Stories We Become is less concerned with how to communicate a story and more concerned with understanding which stories are shaping what we believe is possible in the first place.

We explore stories as cultural and systemic forces: they influence what we value, how we behave, what we design, which futures we can imagine and which ones remain difficult to see. Narrative design then becomes a way of consciously shaping alternatives — not simply communicating them more persuasively.

You don't need to arrive here wanting to reinvent yourself.

Stories We Become is less about becoming someone new and more about becoming more conscious of the stories you are already living inside — and developing the agency to decide which ones still deserve your participation.