Story as the soil for leadership and change
I help corporate, climate, non-profit and sports organisations leverage the neuroscience of narrative to shift behaviour. By applying ecosystem thinking to leadership, we transform rigid hierarchies into collaborative, resilient networks.
The neuroscience of organisational narrative
Our brains are hardwired for story
As human beings we process the world through story, our most ancient and powerful communication tool.
Studies show that we retain significantly more information from a story than from the same information delivered as a list. This happens through our brains being fully stimulated – both the sensory cortex and the language processing area, enabling the release a range of hormones that help us focus, feel and recall.
Retention Rates: The neuroscience of narrative demonstrates that audiences retain up to 22 times more information when data is delivered through a structured story rather than a traditional list of metrics.
Team Trust: Strategic storytelling triggers the neurological release of oxytocin, a chemical hormone that directly correlates to an immediate increase in empathy, team alignment, and peer-to-peer trust.
When you want a message to have impact, or you want a high level directive to actually stick, storytelling germinates information into a full sensory experience that shifts human behaviour.
N4C work uses an ecosystem approach, so transformation doesn't just happen, it takes root
The Narrative 4 Change (N4C) Framework brings lasting transformation to corporate, climate, non-profit, educational and sports organisations through ecosystem thinking.
Exploring the soil of the mythology (Culture), the entanglement of the ecology (Systems) and the vision of the leadership (Direction) within an organisation ensures that transformation grows from within, rather than being grafted on from outside.
Ecologies of Practice
Rather than traditional projects, with a linear beginning, middle and end, our approach instead centres around the many varied relationships, practices and approaches to exploring how communities continually develop in how they live with the Land. Our aim is to explore multiple ways of knowing and relating to the land, as well as sitting with the tensions between them, to capture insights from lived experiences and to experiment with meaningful practice.
Multispecies Neighbourhoods
Recognising how communities, both human and non-human, co-exist within one another’s lives.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Investigating how intergenerational knowledge, skills and crafts influence ecological identities.
Watershed
Collaborating with artists, practitioners and researchers within the River Trent landscape.
Permaculture
Exploring how regenerative agricultural practice relates to ecological identity.
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Meet Paul
Katrice is a master narrative strategist who works at the intersection of ecology, mythology and leadership.
After a 40 year career spanning over 20 countries and five continents, she cultivated a framework rooted deep enough to hold create positive change in a host of environments. With a background in training design and performance storytelling, and as the former UK National Storytelling Laureate with a repertoire of over 300 stories drawn from lands across the world, she helps elite organisations, leaders and unearth the stories that are keeping them bound and build the ones they wish to be bound towards.
From executive corporate boardrooms to climate leadership networks and sports associations, her work transforms how leaders sound, how they motivate, and how they nurture collective thriving.
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