Created a documentary film following a theatrical production that brings together Indigenous Kogui leaders and a theater company to reveal how competing narratives about land actually control systemic decisions about land ownership, use, and governance. The film captures both the story being told on stage and the meta-narrative of how storytelling processes themselves perpetuate or challenge power structures.

The Living Atlas initiative combines high-tech digital mapping with place-based wisdom to create dynamic, interactive visualizations of bioregions. By collecting stories from diverse inhabitants—Indigenous elders, farmers, artists, residents—who share the same watershed or ecosystem, it builds collective narratives that respect natural rather than political boundaries, revealing connections between landscapes, communities, and economies.

Dunna, a Colombian nonprofit, integrates mind-body healing practices with restorative justice and ecological reconciliation to build peace in post-conflict communities. Through a six-month journey that combines storytelling circles, somatic processing, and land-based healing projects, they help communities transform trauma and rebuild relationships severed by violence between individuals, communities, and the land itself.

The Detroit Education Narrative Collective is an initiative stewarded by the Skillman Foundation. It brings artists into the center of education systems change. It convenes storytellers working across different art forms to surface how education systems actually operate—and to create stories that can move across communities, institutions, and power centers.

This work started from a simple question: data alone isn’t shifting decisions. The people most affected by education policy—students, families, teachers—are often farthest from those shaping it. How can storytelling close that distance?

The Samuel DuBois Cook Center incorporated systems storytelling into their Hank & Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute program for high school students.  Following the storytelling circle, students applied insights from the process to the critical final section of their research papers—the "Why does it matter?" component—and to their preparation for the capstone presentations where they presented to a large audience.

Using storytelling at the university to address food security by collecting authentic narratives directly from students experiencing hunger. The goal is to build empathy and awareness among different decision-makers across the local and national food system, transform awareness into action, and ultimately contribute to shifting the dominant aid-worker food narrative in Benin to one shaped by local voices.

North Carolina Budget & Tax employed systems storytelling in two separate contexts. The first involved young policy leaders (ages 18–25), where they integrated "story of self, us, and now" into policy education. The second focused on community members in Western North Carolina, highlighting the lived experiences related to reparations, the impact of disasters, and cultural sovereignty.

Prosperity Now piloted storytelling circles during its national conference in Washington, DC, convening policymakers, advocates, and individuals impacted by economic instability.

The practice surfaced challenges for systems-oriented, data-driven participants who were less accustomed to beginning with personal narrative. At the same time, the circles accelerated empathy, cross-sector understanding, and recognition of shifting narratives around prosperity and deservedness.

SPLC's exploration of systems storytelling applications included various contexts: staff circles for internal use, land justice dialogues within communities, and larger gatherings that brought together multiple communities.

Using Indigenous storytelling as both a Traditional healing practice and systems intervention to address the opioid crisis. The initiative positions community members as wisdom holders, gathering and sharing stories that reveal root causes while restoring cultural continuity and creating pathways for Indigenous approaches to influence broader healthcare, governance, and social systems.