About this event
“I am not used to studying the subject as I am always seen to be the subject. By participating in Our Race workshops I feel more confident to navigate this space and control my own narrative, and tell my story , my way.”
- Story Holder and Workshop participant
These workshops are for Story Holders who have historically been excluded, often having their Stories exploited and commodified. In these workshops, we equip Story Holders with knowledge and tools to better advocate for creative control and ownership of their Stories. These programs are always free of charge for Story Holders as we believe it is the responsibility of organisations working with Story Holders to resource the communities they work with.
Workshop Outcomes
- Acquire skills and knowledge to better advocate for the creative control and ownership of Stories
- Incorporate tools to address power dynamics in the Story Telling process in a safe, ethical way
- Understand the importance of shaping one's own narrative
- Gain insights from experienced Story Holders on how to navigate Story Telling processes
If you are unable to attend these dates, and are interested in attending a future workshop please contact us at admin@ourrace.com.au to register your interest.
This workshop is supported by City of Sydney.
About Our Race
Our Race is a social enterprise with an emphasis on the redemptive and restorative nature of storytelling in a culturally diverse social environment. We educate and advocate for the empowerment of storytellers, and an inclusive and intelligent approach to storytelling by organisations and the wider community.
We seek to flip the prevailing power imbalance of our social environment through the development of tools and techniques to enable storytellers and communities to be the creators and directors of their own stories thereby deriving the maximum benefit from the process.
We acknowledge and value the strength and example of First Nations’ storytelling in which our own approach is grounded. Cultural knowledge and safety in practice are honoured and prioritised as the basis of mental health in a diverse environment and creating a more ethical and transformative approach to storytelling.
We believe in genuine engagement, reflection, critique and continual improvement to move towards restorative justice. We are committed to an anti-racist, intersectional approach, which is informed by an immersive commitment.
We aim to create a sustainable, humanistic model which will provide spaces for more voices to be heard without the compromising conditions generally placed on marginalised groups. To do this we have developed the Transformational Ethical Storytelling framework which helps guide us and our partners to a more ethical approach of storytelling.
