Partner Programs
At its core, the New Narrative is a community. We want to create opportunities for all our members to grow, support each other, and share their gifts.
The New Narrative Partner Programs invite members of our community to share their ideas, passions, and talents in the form of workshops and events.
If you’d like to host an event or workshop with the New Narrative, we’d love to hear from you. Below are some basic tenets to help guide you to whether or not your idea is a good fit. Please check out the core values of the organization too.
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Event and Workshop Tenets
Interactive
We want to minimize one way experiences and try to create opportunities for attendees to talk back, interact, and be involved. We want attendees to learn something new, think about something they might not have thought about before, and get a chance to process their thoughts and feelings with other attendees too. The hope is that attendees feel like they interacted with something bigger than just a lecture or show.
Community Focused
We're working on building a community here, so we want events to draw on insight from the community. We recommend that everybody attend a couple of our events before making their own proposal. Event proposals from within our community will get precedence over proposals from outside our community. We also ask that events and workshops create a level of interaction between attendees that fosters community amongst attendees.
Uplifting
We believe that a New Narrative is possible. We want our events to help move us along that path and show attendees what could be possible through working together and determination. Community upliftment can also be tied to our own personal growth. By working to make ourselves stronger, more resilient, and conscientious people we can show up more able-bodied and whole for our communities as well.
Actionable
We want people to leave events feeling like they have something actionable to work with. This could be a new skill or insight, something they’ll be thinking about and noticing in the world, something they’ll talk about with friends, or a behavior that they might change.
Universal themes
There’s a sweet spot between creating events that are not too specific and not too general. The way to achieve that is to focus on themes that represent something all of us deal with. Take an issue in the world and focus it around the ground level situation we all deal with. This can be conflicts around self expression, being human, creating connections, or doing the right thing in a confusing world.
Lasting Impression
We want attendees to leave having experienced something unique and thought provoking, that might alter their preconceived notions and behavior. The way to do this is to be willing to go to a more earnest and vulnerable place in the ideas we represent. It would be up to you as the event organizer or workshop facilitator to show your own earnestness and vulnerability in this process too.
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To give an example of what we want to do, think of a topic like climate change. Our audience is generally aware of it and agrees that it’s a big deal. Rather than putting together a panel to talk about climate change or the latest implications, how can we create a discussion about what each of us could do about climate change? How could we examine our own actions or the bigger picture to plot a path forward for a more sustainable climate future?
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Things We’re Less Interested In:
Any proposal that seems too self-serving or a blatant pitch for a larger program. We’re all for helping you grow whatever you do with us into something bigger, but if it serves you more than the community, it’s not going to fly here.
Anything too focused on entrepreneurship, spirituality, or “new age” practices (for lack of better terms). We’re not actually opposed to any of these per se, but we can only create so much room for them here. They all tend to bring their own brand with them and there are plenty of other spaces that are more focused on these verticals too.
Anything that isn’t conceived or doesn’t attempt to be inclusive of people of all racial, ethnic, gender, and socio-economic backgrounds.
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If you have an idea for a collaborative event that you think would be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you! Click on the button below to send us your proposal.
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