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This mini course is a selection of videos to help you complete your own Story of Change canvas. By following this course we hope you’ll feel more confident to share your own stories of change and uncover the meaning behind your experiences.

This canvas was inspired by the Satir Change Model developed by Virginia Satir and the Story Canvas created by David Hutchens.

Experimenting with this canvas in different forms and with different communities we've seen how much clarity it can create.

By following a simple process to make sense of a past experience or journey of transformation it helps people tell a story that creates connection and inspires action.

At a basic human level stories are an engaging way to communicate ideas. They are also an effortless way to create connections for your business, your mission and your community.

It can also help you understand who you need to serve, collaborate with and get help from.

Our wish is that using this canvas becomes a practice that you always come back to whenever you’re starting a new venture or creating content.

We also hope that by understanding your own stories of change you’ll discover the change you can make for others.

Each of the following videos will step you through each “chapter” of the canvas with examples using my own story of change.

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The Story of Change Canvas - Introduction

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If you prefer you can download the print out the canvas here.

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We also have a digital version in Canva that you can create a copy of and edit.

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There are six chapters to this Story of Change.

Chapter one is about describing where you were at the beginning of the story.

We invite you to write in the first person and share some details about that past situation.

Elaborate about the circumstances you found yourself in.

How did you feel?

What were you doing?

What was happening around you?

Who were you with?

And how did they view you or interact with you?

If you can use emotive language all the better. If you’re short for words please refer to the Feelings List sheet.

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The Story of Change Canvas - Chapter 1 - Where I was

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How did it go with completing chapter one?

Chapter two is about describing what drove your change.

In the Satir Change Model it is described as the inciting incident. But for you it may not be one single event and so share what called you to change.

What motivated you to start shifting?

Were you pushed or were you pulled?

Did your perspective change or did your circumstances change?

Was there a single significant event?

Or was it a gradual shift borne of multiple sources?

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The Story of Change Canvas - Chapter 2 - What drove this change

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Chapter three is describing what got in your way.

These could be tangible or intangible obstacles.

Tangible obstacles are lack of resources, external forces (i.e. the economic climate, family circumstances) or even lack of knowledge.

Intangible obstacles are internal. This could be a lack of vision, limiting beliefs, a questioning of identity or pure emotional obstacles like fear and anxiety.

Try not to overthink this and just spend 12 minutes free-writing what comes up naturally. You can then go back and edit.

#perfectionistheenemyofdone

#writethenedit

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The Story of Change Canvas - Chapter 3 - What got in my way

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Chapter four is about describing the help that you received.

This could be directly from people or from your own learning or research.

Focus on the specific experiences or epiphanies that got you moving forward by removing the obstacles in chapter 3.

Were you part of a community?

Did you receive mentorship?

Did friends come to your aid?

Did colleagues give you support?

Were you inspired by a person, talk or story?

Did you reach out to people or did others just offer support?

How did serendipity play a role in finding help?

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The Story of Change Canvas - Chapter 4 - What help did I recieve

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Chapter five is about describing the actions you took.

It’s all well and good receiving support, advice, feedback or instruction but unless you actually DO something change doesn’t happen.

On your journey of change you found agency and courage to create and connect.

Use this chapter to describe the steps you took to get to where you needed to get to.

You may have completed a course or joined a community or received coaching.

Did you develop a practice or new habit like exercise, mediation or even regular content creation that got you into action mode?

Share what you did to make change happen.

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The Story of Change Canvas - Chapter 5 - What I did

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We’ve taken a pretty linear process to filling out the canvas.

But an alternative approach would be to complete chapter six straight after chapter one and start by defining the actual change; the contrast between where you started and where you ended.

You then may find it easier to describe how that change happened because you’ll be focused on the relevant details.

As we mentioned at the beginning of this mini-course storytelling is a practice. There’s no one way of doing it. This canvas is just a tool to get you started.

Chapter six is about painting a picture of the end of the story. Ideally it’s a happy ending. But it doesn’t have to be.

Ultimately it should illustrate a distinct difference between chapter one.

In a similar way to chapter one talk in the first person and describe the new situation you found yourself in and how it made you feel.

What did you start doing differently?

How has your environment changed?

What was happening around you that was different?

Who were you connecting with that was different?

How are these new people viewing you or interacting with you?

How did this all make you feel in contrast to where you started?

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The Story of Change Canvas - Chapter 6 - Where I got to

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Completing the canvas isn't the end.

You now need to share this story with others and get their feedback.

Ask them:

Which bits of the story resonated for them?

What emotions did they feel?

Where did they get confused or lost?

Where did they tune out?

What did they remember most?

What did they learn?

What questions were they left with?

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In preparation for our session we'd love for you to share you Story of Change here on Padlet.

You can create your canvas by downloading the PDF and editing it on your machine (or your can print it out and write on it). And then upload it to our shared space that we've created on Padlet.

Or you could use Canva to create your canvas online and then download a PDF or image version and upload it.

Or you can create a video using Loom and share that.

Watch the video above to see how to upload your stories.

You can access the shared space (The Stories of Change Mosaic) here.