Emerging Futures
Their Challenge
In 2014 Emerging Futures was born from a deep belief in the power of lived experience to transform lives through recovery coaching. From those modest beginnings, Emerging Futures expanded across the UK, and is now a large team of staff and volunteers, many with lived experience themselves, supporting thousands through housing and therapeutic programmes. Their challenge was to re-connect to the core elements of the organisation. To explore where those elements still held true and where they had evolved or changed throughout the growth of the organisation and the need in the community.
Their Story: A world where everyone has somewhere to live, something to do and someone to love.
Through the Story Workshop process, the team of eight Emerging Futures leaders from across the organisation led by CEO, Claire Bloor, and Head of Communications, Charlie Royce, realised that storytelling was not so much about presenting facts and figures in sector language, but rather to look behind ‘big words’ and get to a language that connects the storyteller with their audience. The team co-created and crafted a powerful story that inspires action by connecting a deeply emotive and motivating Vision with a tangible and easy to understand Mission. The process of aligning on relevant strengths and differentiators provided more focus for their day-to-day work. Over the course of 3 sessions the team connected deeply over shared stories, found their creative confidence, and shaped an Organisational Story that is true and deeply relevant for their challenges and goals.
Story Workshop
Coaching
“I can highly recommend working with the exceptional Alex Mecklenburg and Ivan Pols from Truth & Spectacle and their work on storytelling. At Emerging Futures CIC we are finalising our strategy which has included reviewing our mission and vision.
Alex and Ivan have helped us re-articulate who we are, where we’ve come from and why we exist. The process has been energizing and we have had a lot of fun. Bonus is that we’ve reduced the jargon that we’d increasingly been drifting towards and it feels more real and rooted in who we are. We loved it!”
