I run workshops on storytelling for a better future. In particular I ran one such workshop for the Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots program in Melbourne.

In 2020 during the Victorian COVID lockdown I put together a series of four YouTube videos for young adult writers about how stories are an important part of how we imagine and create the future. This was the first time I had done anything quite like this.

I was planning on continuing this with helpful ways on how my viewers could actually write Earth-mending fiction. However, I found myself helping the Nillumbik Council hold online game days for teens. Also important!

I decided to write a middle-grade novel (now complete!), and come back to something like this series at a future date.

Stories Make the Future:
"worldbuilding through storytelling"

This episode outlines how storytelling is an effective form of activism in order to help build a beautiful future.

Stories Make the Future:
"this is the problem"

This episode discusses the need for works that bring to life the realities many people are facing, and the root causes for their hardships. Literature has a long history of offering us stories that have exposed difficult problems, and thereby brought about change.

Stories Make the Future:
"crossing bridges"

This episode discusses the means people have used throughout history to affect positive change. Representing these methods in stories helps to strengthen people's resolve when they take up a cause.

Stories Make the Future:
"utopia"

This episode considers the value of utopian visions, and how to most effectively imagine and represent a functional future