The purpose of this guide is to help facilitators navigate a workflow for telling regenerative stories using a variety of AI tools. Storytelling is probably of the most powerful coordination technology available, and with AI our ability to tell moving stories just got much easier.

Time: 2-3 hours

Participants: 20-30

Dynamics: Alone time, small groups, storytelling at the end

Outline

Here’s a rough outline of the structure of the workshop:

Introduction
Story structure
Guiding principles
AI tooling intro
Process
End result

1. Introduction

At the beginning of the session, describe the purpose of the workshop:

The purpose of this workshop is to tell regenerative stories about our future here in [this_community]. The end result should be some form of social media post, and we really do expect each group to actually post their story—so make sure you can make something you’re either proud of or can laugh about!

Storytelling is one of the most powerful vehicles for making sense of the world. We used to sit around a campfire and tell stories about our past and our future. We now have these incredible devices in the palm of our hand—but most of the time we’re passive consumers of other people’s stories.

Now with AI, we have the ability to take storytelling to the next level across three mediums:

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Image
Video