THRESHOLD COLLABORATIVE Stories that Matter www.thresholdcollaborative.org
THRESHOLD Uses participatory media to harness the stories of community members building inclusion, strengthening relationships, democratizing knowledge and finding sustainable solutions to difficult challenges.
Started using stories for change in 1991 Personal healing, empathy and social change
Document . Share . Listen . Change
Transformative Process Issues of Social Justice Builds buy in, engagement, healing and activism
Small and Large Scale
Documentation, Archiving, Memory, Healing, Policy and Social Change, Campaigns, Collaboration
Community installation, exhibits, story walks, books, video, postcards, digital stories, long form oral histories, brief narratives
Strategies
Community Engagement, Dialogue and Facilitated Story Sharing
Community Surveying & Mapping
Audio Tours & Public Installation
Racial Justice . Truth Commissions
TOOLS
QR Codes
Tool Kits We use participant developed card decks to engender deep conversations between diverse people We use the QR code to share stories in diverse and public spaces We run workshops that bring people together to do story work
Conversation Cards We use participant developed card decks to engender deep conversations between diverse people We use the QR code to share stories in diverse and public spaces We run workshops that bring people together to do story work
Art Installations
BOOKS
Connected Strategies Concept: Youth Identity & Improving School/Community Relationships People: Teachers / Students /Community Members Tools: Curriculum / Conversation Cards /Photos / Outdoor Installation /Story Tour /Book Methods: Oral History / Writing / Peer Connections /Story Tour /Facilitated Dialogue Sharing: Peer to Peer / Story Tour /Book Signing
Concept
People
Tools
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BOOK SIGNING
Current Projects: TRC State-wide Campaign Gen2Gen Oral History and RJ Groundswell
Oral History for Social Change GROUNDSWELL: Oral History for Social Change WWW.oralhistoryforsocialchange.org