Cite
We compile cutting-edge, critical, and innovative resources to help academics, students, and storytellers develop deep understanding of narrative transformation.
Create
We provide activities and tools to help all manner of storytellers, from journalists and politicians to artists and activists, to tell better stories for peace and justice.
Collaborate
We bring together people from all over the world, helping them pool together their skillsets, networks, and unique viewpoints to build a more just and peaceful world.
Located at the Carter School at Mason Square, The Narrative Transformation Lab is home to a community of scholars, students, and storytellers seeking to deepen, expand, and disrupt our understandings of how narrative shapes possibilities for peace and justice.
MISSION, VISION, AND VALUES
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WHY NARRATIVE?
NARRATIVE AT THE CARTER SCHOOL
Narrative provides both the conscious language that justifies actions when these actions are subject to direct reflection and the primitive and structuring symbols that work on us at the level of our moral intuitions when they are not.
SOLON SIMMONS
(Root Narrative Theory and Conflict Resolution, 2020)