Changing Stories, is a not-for-profit, Community Interest Company, that provides creative and educational projects, which use the creation of story in a community context as a tool of self-realisation.
The company has been formed by experienced, professional writers who have personally experienced the power of story to transform their own lives.
All of us tell stories about ourselves; about the experiences that have shaped us, about the people in our lives, about our successes and about the trials and tribulations that have tested us. These defining stories we tell about ourselves help make sense of our lives, justify our actions and give our relationships meaning.
Using the techniques of story telling to explore, understand and reimagine our life-problems can transform our sense of self, change our relationship with others and provide us with a more positive vision of our future.
Changing Stories currently has three programmes running Rewriting Your Script , Telling A Different Story and Heart & Minds but we are constantly developing new ways of using story to help the disadvantaged, so please contact us if you think we might be able to contribute to a project you are running.
Rewriting Your Script
Stuck in an ever-swirling washing-machine head? Can’t find your way out of the maze?
Rewriting Your Script is a transformative and therapeutic, creative writing programme that teaches you how to use the techniques of story-telling to explore, understand and reimagine your life-problems helping you to make healthy choices and to find a more positive vision of your future.
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Telling A Different Story
Telling a Different Story Is a creative writing programme aimed at individuals belonging to minority groups in the contemporary UK. The underpinning principles of the programme are tolerance, understanding and mutual respectIt is a skills programme offering taught classes in writing fiction and script writing. It is a vehicle for individuals to organise and express their experiences as members of minority communities. It helps create a community of diversity that encourages empathetic understanding between individuals and across different group boundaries.
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Hearts & Minds: telling stories that matter
Hearts and Minds is an online creative writing class that uniquely focuses on story as a social phenomenon.
Creative writing is often seen as an individualistic and primarily expressive activity in which much of the benefit of the writing accrues to the author who gets to express their innermost feelings.
But at Changing Stories we believe that story-telling is one of the primary tools through which human beings convey ideas to each other and seek to influence each other’s opinions and actions. Story-telling is a collective activity and effective story-telling is as much about ideas as it is about feelings.
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“Everyone is a writer. Everyone has a story to tell. Some are written in books and some are confined to hearts.”
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