Stories of Change and Learning Dialogues

​Learn to Write  Stories of Change 

We facilitate online public and in-house writing courses where you will learn to write compelling case stories of social change.

​Our unique methodologies help to surface the deeper inside stories, enabling you to draw out rich reflections, learning and implications for future practice.

If you are interested in an inhouse course please email us at [email protected]

Our next public course will be in April 2026 - click here for info and registration
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The Power of Stories in
​Practices of Social Change
​by Doug Reeler
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​​Exploring the role of stories and story telling in social change and how writing and working with stories of change can transform social change practice

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​Support for your own Publications

​Organisations need to write different kinds of documents: annual reports, case studies, reports to donors, theories of change, concept notes, blogs etc.
 
We can work with your staff to coach them to design and write a wide range of materials.

​​Write and Publish your own Barefoot Guide

Barefoot Guides are written by communities of practice to surface, develop and deepen their practices of social change and to share them with the world.

We work closely with teams of practitioners and editors to produce unique expressions of your common practices. 

​Develop in-house Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Facilitators

​We can coach in-house staff to facilitate case story writing and action learning-based monitoring and evaluation practices. 

This will enable your facilitators to guide and support practitioner teams to reflect on and deepen their social change practices while developing rich reports and case studies for wider sharing and accountability. 
To discuss any of the above email us at [email protected]

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Tobias Troll Director, EDGE Europe at EDGE Funders Alliance, Bruxelles 

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