Communicate 2013: Stories for Change - 6 & 7 November

Friday 05, April 2013

We are pleased to announce that Communicate 2013: Stories for Change, will be held on 6 and 7 November 2013 at Arnolfini, central Bristol. Delegate registrations will open in mid-April. Join our mailing list to keep up to date with the latest news.

Communicate 2013: Stories for Change

As environmental communicators, we are both storytellers and story-liberators. Our role is to help find the ways that people and nature can co-exist, and to reconnect people with the natural world.

 There is a spectrum, with some people just beginning to make that connection, and others who have made great progress. Yet many remain sceptical, hostile, unable or unwilling to start that journey. From the outside, it is difficult to determine where someone is on that spectrum, and how best to help them take the next step. We can use many methods to try to establish their place on this journey; appearances, demographics, surveys and monitoring tools.

But to truly understand where our audience is, we have to liberate a particular story

We are also storytellers. We use the media, campaigns, images, exhibitions and event to construct narratives, convey messages, and to tell stories about the natural world that capture the imagination and engage, persuade, and empower. To make more of a difference, we strive to improve our skills. We work in partnership, and organisations have stories too – to be liberated, but also to be shared.

Communicate 2013 is a training session, and a discussion opportunity on these themes, with plenary sessions and debates on liberating stories, and practical workshops focused on telling stories.

Communicate 2013: Stories for Change

Tuesday 29, January 2013

Communicate 2013: Stories for Change will be held this Autumn in Bristol. Sign up to our mailing list now to keep up to date with all the latest news from the conference and the Communicate community.