Working with Story Holders and Respecting their Stories

We all know that Stories are powerful way to learn about each others lived experience. However, many people and communities are having their Stories used as commodities without their informed consent. Unethical, unsafe Story Telling can lead to the direct exploitation of an individual or a whole community. This type of Story Telling is common place and often leads to other people being exploited for personal and/or commercial gain. Although these practices are common, they are seldom seen or acknowledged. 

Many organisations, including social enterprise practitioners perpetuate this process, often unwittingly.  SECNA, as part of its activities in the lead up to the Social Enterprise World Forum is facilitating an event series for its Members and Partners to explore these issues in a constructive way and to support organisations to make change. 

This is the first step of many that SECNA is taking to build culturally safe, respectful and ethical ways of working with our Cultural and Indigenous Entrepreneur members.

Our Program Partners:

Our Race aims to educate, advocate and implement safe, ethical Story Telling practices. We work with Story Holders and Story Partners to create an ecosystem of change, where the way Stories are designed, constructed and delivered are changed to benefit the communities whose Stories are being told.

To learn more about their work check out this video!

Who is this workshop for?

• Story Partners - person or organisation who engages a story holder to share their story and commits to safe, ethical storytelling.
• Story Holders - people who have lived experience of their story and the owner of their story. 

In this workshop you will:

• Gain insights in to the role you and your organisation can play in enabling more ethical storytelling
• Learn about your responsibilities of working with community Stories and how to engage in ethical and meaningful ways
• Build understanding of the impacts of Story Telling for Story Holders, communities and broader society
• Learn how to apply safe, ethical Story Telling principles from community engagement through to communicating your Stories
• Understand your rights as a Story Holder and how you can challenge power imbalances  
  

Timing:

• 3pm - arrival and pre-event mingling 
• 3.30pm - workshop begins
• 6pm - drinks and nibbles
• 7pm - close

We never want people to stop telling their stories.  Which is why we are committed to helping SECNA members and partners be more informed and ethical holders of the stories of others! 

The Social Enterprise Council of NSW & ACT (SECNA) is the first peak body in Australia to sign up to the Transformational Ethical Storytelling (TEST) Commitment


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