How Story Can Change the Narrative Around Place

Storytelling is a powerful tool, essential for communication, community engagement, and influencing policymakers. Stories can change minds, drive plans and policies, and create deeper understanding of a place and the people who live there. Stories are vital to increasing the influence of planners and are a powerful tool for persuasion and communicating vital insights in memorable ways. Cities and planners are increasingly using storytelling in helping navigate change and create opportunity. Many planners are using story—sometimes without realizing it. Dig into how to harness that skill and use story to create and influence impactful narratives. Find out how storytelling works, how planners anywhere can harness and deploy its power, and including real stories of how Denver has made storytelling central to building stronger neighborhoods and changing the narrative around place.