Generative Journalism | Weekly Workshop Series - Thursdays, June 4, 11, 18

Generative Journalism has been honed as a life-giving narrative approach to change in dozens of communities, organizations, and networks during decades of practice.

This workshop series will introduce Generative Journalism as an art with the capacity to give birth to something new, to midwife and even create new life.

If you would like to catalyze a new narrative, one that cultivates life and possibility, this workshop series might be for you. 

If so, we'd love for you to join us for this series of three participatory and experiential workshops on:

Thursdays, June 4, 11, 18 from 14:00 - 16:00 BST

Your ticket is for all three sessions. 

In the course of this series we'll traverse ground including:

• Weaving: A Very Neat Trick
• Foundational Premises of Generative Journalism
• Freeing a Few Sacred Cows: Objectivity, Two Sides of Every Story, Multi-Sourcing, Institutionalized Narratives, Editors
• Possibility Orientation
• Narrative Inquiry and Emergence
• Primacy of Direct Experience
• Presence, Inquiry, Reflection, Weaving, Sensing
• A Sprinkling of Relational Presencing
• Power and Importance of Provocative Questions
• The Art of the Open Question
• Whose Story Is This? A Question of Authenticity and Ownership
• Easy Ways to Start
• You've Probably Already Started

Every conversation we have together during this series will lead to all of the others. We will sense together what is most alive in the room and follow the energy from session to session. 

By the end of the series you will have inverted some of your thinking, experienced refreshing practices, begun journeys, found friends, and started unfolding a new story.

Your Hosts

Workshop Series Lead Peter Pula has been engaged in Generative Journalism since 1991, long before the term was coined. He and his colleagues at Axiom News coined the term and refined the practice of Generative Journalism in over thirty settings. He has a rich collection of stories reflecting the effects of Generative Journalism in peoples’ lives as well as on policy-level decision making.

Workshop Series Co-Host Jack Becher came across Generative Journalism in 2022 while searching for more relational and future-oriented ways of telling stories. Through conversations with Peter Pula and others, they formed what has become known as the Generative Journalism Alliance, stewarding inquiries into everything from radical philanthropy to worker ownership, and from just transitions to unlearning patriarchy. 

About the Ticket Types:

We are committed to making these workshops as accessible as we can so that everybody who wants to can participate. We invite you to select the ticket type that best fits your situation. Reach out if money is a barrier to access and we'll do our best to accommodate. 

• Supporter rate: £140
• Sustaining rate: £100
• Supported rate: £60