From Lived Reality to Climate Narrative: Translating Experience into Influence

From Lived Reality to Climate Narrative: Translating Experience into Influence Facilitator: Ashley Lashley Climate discourse often strips away lived experience in favour of data and abstraction. This workshop works in the opposite direction — starting from lived realities and exploring how they can be translated into narratives that hold weight in decision-making spaces. What happens in the room: Participants bring a lived example (community, place, issue) Break down how stories shift (or get diluted) across platforms Reframe narratives for different audiences (policy, media, public) Takeaway: Ability to move between lived experience and structured narrative without losing meaning or integrity