The institution is stuck. You can shift it.
Change the Story
Why your regenerative initiative keeps stalling, even when everyone says they agree with the outcome.
Free workshop · 75 minutes · Live online via Zoom · Max 20 participants
A free 75 minute workshop for people inside councils, universities, and anchor institutions who are ready to stop waiting for the whole organisation to be ready.
You know exactly what needs to happen.
The institution keeps pulling back.
You've made the case. You've built the relationships. You've sat in the room where, for a moment, it felt like things might genuinely move. Then someone says 'we need to be realistic.' A funder asks for measurable outcomes by quarter two. A colleague who seemed fully on board reverts to the old language.
You can feel it happening. What you don't yet have is the precise language to name it, or the framework to show others where it can shift.
So you wonder: What is it in this room that keeps blocking real progress?
The thing blocking your institution isn't a strategy problem.
It's a story problem.
The story of how economies work — who has power within them, what counts as realistic, what institutions are 'allowed' to do — has been operating in your organisation for longer than anyone currently working in it. It lives below the level of policy, below the level of communication, in the mental models people carry without knowing they carry them.
That story is not fixed. It has a constellation of other stories holding it in place. And it has moments where a different story of what's possible can take root.
To change the system, you have to go to the root. The narrative.
This workshop gives you the tool to find it.
What happens in the session
Change the Story is a 75-minute live workshop using Mentimeter, Miro, and real-world political examples to make visible something that usually stays invisible: the economic stories operating in the room, and in your institution.
Surface the economic stories still operating in your own thinking in real time, without judgement
Map where those stories came from across your ecosystem of influences
See the same story operating across four decades and two political parties, and understand why it's so hard to shift
Learn the Narrative Constellation framework: the tool that shows why changing one message doesn't change the underlying belief
Understand how beliefs actually shift through proximity, trust, and shared experience
Build a Narrative Roadblock Map for your specific institutional context, ready to use the very next day
No prior reading required. You bring your context.
The session gives you the framework.
We're Together Culture, and
we've been in this work for four years.
We're a community of collaborative culture changemakers working to accelerate the regenerative transformation of our economy.
Our focus is the missing middle: the space between economic theory
and isolated community projects where culture actually shifts.
I spent twenty years feeling it burning — the sense that the systems around us were not inevitable. That competition, extraction, and scarcity were not facts of life but choices. Choices that could be unmade.
Then my neighbourhood was put up for sale. And I said: enough.
I started reading voraciously, meeting people in the New Economy movement, making things happen on the ground. And I kept learning the same uncomfortable truth: people say they want change, but real change asks us to step outside everything our systems have trained us to prioritise.
But here's what I also learned: small groups of people, working together over time, deeply embedding new behaviours, can create tipping points. That's the missing middle — and that's where we work.
Heather, founder of Together Culture CIC
We've spent four years developing our methods with a community of 400 changemakers.
We've been validating them with Anglia Ruskin University.
Everything in this session comes from practice, not theory.
What shifts when you have the language to name what's happening
You stop absorbing the resistance as a personal failure, and start seeing it as a story operating in a system.
You go into a conversation with a senior colleague and, for the first time, you can name precisely what's pulling the initiative back.
You stop waiting for the institution to be ready. You start working on the cultural conditions that make readiness possible.
