Relational practices · Leadership · Complexity

See differently.
Question deeply.
Create possibilities.

Workshops and masterclasses for people who want to explore complex questions, challenge familiar ways of seeing and create meaningful possibilities for change.

Storywork Foundations

Storywork Design Canvas

Storywork Foundations

Master the complete Storywork methodology.

Storywork is a research-informed methodology for understanding how stories shape identities, relation-ships and systems; and how they can be intentionally redesigned to create meaningful change.
During this immersive workshop you will learn the complete Storywork methodology and experience how it guides participants from exploring the stories that shape a situation to designing new possibilities for action. Through a combination of theory, dialogue, practical exercises and real-world examples, you will develop a new way of seeing organisational, cultural and societal challenges.
Whether you work in branding, organisational development, leadership, community engagement or social innovation, this workshop provides the conceptual foundations for applying Storywork in your own practice.

You leave with a strong conceptual foundation, practical experience using the Canvas and a methodology you can begin applying within your own field.

Storywork Design Canvas Narrative Change Systems Thinking
Format: Half-day workshop Outcome: Advanced understanding Approach: Theory & Reflection Investment: €345 p.p. excl. VAT

Storywork Applications

Apply Storywork to a brand, community, organisational or leadership challenge. Each workshop combines practical application, collaborative dialogue and strategic reflection. You leave with new insights and a Storywork Design Canvas developed for the context you explored. Designed for participants who have completed the Storywork Foundations or have equivalent familiarity with the Storywork methodology.

Storywork for Brands

Design narrative change for your own brand.

Brands exist within a wider cultural story. Some stories create relevance and connection. Others quietly limit how brands are perceived and what they can become.
In this hands-on workshop, you apply the Storywork methodology to a brand. Working collaboratively, you explore the narratives shaping that brand and begin designing new possibilities for meaningful change.
Throughout the workshop, the transformation of renowned brands serves as a running case, illustrating how Storywork can reveal hidden assumptions, reframe cultural narratives and support strategic brand development. Participants use the case to inform and enrich the work on their own brand.
You leave with practical insights, a Storywork Design Canvas tailored to your own context, and a new way of thinking about brand strategy.

Ideal for: brand strategists, marketers, communication professionals and creative agencies.
Cultural Narratives Brand Meaning Strategic Reframing
Format: Half-day workshop Outcome: Context-specific Storywork Approach: Practical application Investment: €395 p.p. excl. VAT

Storywork for Communities

Strengthen the stories that bring communities together.

Communities are shaped by shared stories. These stories influence identity, belonging, participation and collective action. Some strengthen connections, while others unintentionally create division or exclusion.
In this hands-on workshop, you explore the narratives shaping your own community, network or initiative. Working collaboratively, you uncover opportunities to strengthen participation, foster belonging and support sustainable community development.
Throughout the workshop, real-world community initiatives serve as running cases, illustrating how Storywork can reveal hidden assumptions, strengthen collective identities and support meaningful social change. Participants use these examples to inform and enrich the work on their own community.
You leave with practical insights, a Storywork Design Canvas tailored to your own context, and a new perspective on community building.

Ideal for: community builders, arts and cultural organisations, municipalities, educators and social innovators. participation and belonging, and develop possibilities for stronger relationships and collective action.
Belonging Collective Identity Participation
Format: Half-day workshop Outcome: Context-specific Storywork Approach: Practical application Investment: €395 p.p. excl. VAT

Storywork for Organisations

Design narrative change within your organisation.

Every organisation lives by stories. They shape culture, relationships, decision-making and the way change unfolds. Some stories create momentum, while others quietly keep familiar patterns in place.
In this hands-on workshop, you explore the narratives shaping your own organisation. Working collaboratively, you identify opportunities to strengthen collaboration, navigate complexity and design meaningful organisational change.
Throughout the workshop, real-world organisational examples serve as running cases, illustrating how Storywork can uncover hidden assumptions, reframe relationships and support lasting transformation. Participants use these examples to inform and enrich the work on their own organisation.
You leave with practical insights, a Storywork Design Canvas tailored to your own context, and a new perspective on organisational change.

Ideal for: organisational leaders, consultants, HR professionals, change practitioners and public sector organisations.
Organisational Culture Systems Change Collective Meaning
Format:: Half-day workshop Outcome: Context-specific Storywork Approach: Practical application Investment: €395 p.p. excl. VAT

Storywork for Leadership

Lead narrative change.

Stories influence how people understand themselves, one another and the future they are creating together. This workshop explores how leaders can intentionally shape those narratives to build trust, create shared purpose and enable meaningful change.
In this hands-on workshop, you explore the narratives shaping your leadership. Working collaboratively, you reflect on how your personal story, leadership approach and organisational context influence the way others understand change, engage with it and contribute to it.
Throughout the workshop, inspiring leadership examples serve as running cases, illustrating how Storywork helps leaders shape meaning, strengthen relationships and open new possibilities for collective action. Participants use these examples to inform and enrich the work on their own leadership challenges.
You leave with practical insights, a Storywork Design Canvas tailored to your own context, and a renewed understanding of what it means to lead narrative change.

Ideal for: executives, managers, team leaders, facilitators, consultants and organisational change leaders.
Leadership Identity Shared Purpose Relational Change
Format: Half-day workshop Outcome: Context-specific Storywork Approach: Practical application Investment: €395 p.p. excl. VAT

Storywork Deep Dives

Theoretical masterclasses for experienced practitioners. Explore the concepts beneath the Storywork methodology and their implications for practice.
These masterclasses are designed for participants who have completed Storywork Foundations or have equivalent familiarity with the Storywork methodology.

Hidden Wounds

A deep dive into hidden assumptions, symbolic power, lived experience and institutional reproduction.

Some of the most influential stories are the ones we no longer recognise as stories.
This masterclass explores how hidden cultural wounds create normalised, invisible social pain that shapes identities, relationships, organisations and societies. Together, we examine how assumptions become embedded in everyday practices and institutions, quietly influencing how people think, relate and act.
Drawing on Storywork's interdisciplinary foundations, we explore how hidden wounds emerge, why they persist, and how recognising them opens new possibilities for meaningful narrative change.
You leave with a deeper understanding of the forces that shape lived experience—and new ways of recognising the hidden stories beneath visible challenges.

Ideal for: consultants, researchers, organisational leaders, facilitators and professionals working on inclusion, culture and systems change.
Symbolic Power Lived Experience Institutional Reproduction
Format: Half-day masterclass Outcome: Advanced understanding Approach: Theory & Reflection Investment: €345 p.p. excl. VAT

Stories of Identity

A deep dive into identity, belonging, recognition and rehearsal.

Identity is not something we possess. It is something we continually construct and negotiate through stories, relationships and participation.
This masterclass explores how identities emerge, evolve and become socially recognised. We examine how belonging, recognition and rehearsal shape individual and collective identities, and how these processes influence organisations, communities and society.
Drawing on narrative theory, sociology and social psychology, participants deepen their understanding of identity as a dynamic, relational and continuously negotiated process.
You leave with a richer understanding of how Storywork helps individuals, groups and organisations imagine and inhabit new identities.

Ideal for: brand strategists, organisational leaders, community practitioners, facilitators and researchers.
Identity Recognition Rehearsal
Format: Half-day masterclass Outcome: Advanced understanding Approach: Theory & Reflection Investment: €345 p.p. excl. VAT

Bridging Worldviews

A deep dive into dialogue, transculturality, indigenous knowledge and plural epistemologies.

Many of today's challenges are not caused by a lack of dialogue, but by fundamentally different ways of understanding the world.
This masterclass explores how Storywork creates meaningful dialogue across cultures, disciplines and knowledge traditions. Rather than seeking consensus, participants learn how different worldviews can coexist, challenge one another and generate new possibilities for collective understanding.
Drawing on transculturality, Ubuntu, indigenous knowledge systems and plural epistemologies, we examine how narrative dialogue can bridge differences without erasing them.
You leave with new conceptual tools for facilitating dialogue across boundaries and navigating complexity with curiosity, humility and openness.

Ideal for: facilitators, leaders, educators, intercultural professionals, researchers and anyone working across organisational, cultural or disciplinary boundaries.
Plural Epistemologies Transcultural Dialogue Indigenous Knowledge
Format: Half-day masterclass Outcome: Advanced understanding Approach: Theory & Reflection Investment: €345 p.p. excl. VAT
EXPLORATIVE SPACES

Not every challenge needs an immediate answer. Sometimes the first task is to create the conditions in which new questions, perspectives and possibilities can emerge.

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Question Architecture

Finding the question worth exploring.

Complex challenges rarely arrive as neatly defined questions. What appears to be the problem may only be one way of framing it.

Question Architecture creates a structured space to explore an issue from different perspectives and collaboratively develop a question that gives direction without predetermining the outcome. Along the way, the question may change and so may your understanding of what needs to be asked.

Ideal for: teams and organisations navigating complex, ambiguous or emerging challenges.

Complexity Participatory Design Strategic Inquiry
Format: Half-day workshop Outcome: Sharpened inquiry Approach: Participatory exploration Investment: €495 p.p. excl. VAT
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Imbizo

Curated transformational encounters.

In Zulu culture, an Imbizo is a gathering of the tribe, convened around matters concerning a particular issue within that tribe.

At NoyiZ, Imbizo is a curated gathering of minds: a space for collective reflection, exchange, imagination and possibility — bringing together people whose different perspectives can expand the conversation.

Ideal for: organisations, communities and networks seeking meaningful dialogue around an issue that matters.

Dialogue Collective Reflection Multiple Perspectives
Format: 2–4 hour encounter Outcome: Expanded perspectives Approach: Curated dialogue Investment: €99 p.p. excl. VAT
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Custom sessions

Working with a specific organisational, cultural or societal challenge? We design tailored sessions for teams, networks and communities.

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