The National Right to Food Community of Practice and UVM Institute for Agroecology is organizing a Right to Food Narrative Framework Summer Workshop Series. Join colleagues, collaborators, and partners from across the country for this series of shared learning and collective communications strategy.

To change the narrative is to change culture. And culture change is part of what is going to bring us closer to a truly equitable food system. Details about the sessions below:

Why and Where We Use Narrative / 2-3:30pm EDT, July 22nd 
Free but registration required

We aren’t only building narrative through our newsletters and social media. The Right to Food Narrative Framework can (and should) be used wherever people and groups are communicating. This training will help show how narrative appears in everyday work, why it’s so important to successful programming, fundraising, and culture change, and how important it is to work on it collectively with partners and communities.

Framing the Right to Food for our Communities / 2-3:30pm EDT, August 5th 
Free but registration required

Opportunities to strengthen and build a collective voice to advance the Right to Food exist all around us - through communications, programming, community events, fundraising pitches, or as we lobby for legislation. But in order for the Community of Practice to be successful in shifting the narrative towards the Right to Food, we must recognize and lean into the unique position that we all have within our local context and communities. This training will help members identify and reflect on their audiences, lean into community knowledge for how best to reach them, and provide resources and tools for expanding reach and impact.

Story-Based Strategy for the Right to Food / 2-3:30pm EDT, August 26th
Free but registration required

This training will draw on ideas and processes developed by the Center for Story-based Strategy. We will use the five elements of storytelling – conflict, character, imagery, foreshadowing, and underlying assumptions – to analyze the dominant narrative about the current food system and craft our own narrative of the right to food. Power analysis is at the foundation of this approach to crafting narrative change strategies to ensure that the stories and strategies we develop are founded in our lived experiences of power in the food system.

Ensuring Continued Narrative Success for the Right to Food / 2-3:30pm EDT, September 16th
Free but registration required

Using narrative, telling impactful stories, and being responsive to the community requires continued practice. And it truly is practice. This training will help members evaluate and tweak processes for more communications and narrative success throughout their work.