Community Storytelling & Narrative Development
Pueblo Studio creates spaces where communities can share their stories in ways that feel authentic, dignified, and healing. Through one-on-one interviews, collective art-making, small group conversations, and storytelling circles, participants are invited to reflect on their lived experiences and visions for change. These sessions can be documented through notes, audio, video, and portrait photography, capturing the richness and diversity of each story.
As stories are shared, common threads and deeper themes emerge—helping communities see the collective narratives that shape their identities and movements. Pueblo Studio supports groups in understanding and articulating these emergent narratives to guide cultural strategy, community visioning, organizational planning, and policy development.
Narrative Curation
From a constellation of individual stories, Pueblo Studio helps weave a cohesive, impactful narrative that resonates across audiences and platforms. Our Narrative Curation services focus on honoring the voices of participants while amplifying their stories for greater social impact and community connection. We collaborate with clients to curate stories through audio and photo exhibitions, public art installations, and digital storytelling platforms that make narratives visible and accessible.
These curated expressions can take many forms—including ArcGIS StoryMaps, videos, portraits with audio, community zines or booklets, and immersive in-person installations. The result is a living archive of community knowledge and imagination that uplifts lived experience, builds solidarity, and inspires action.
Justice-Centered Storytelling Workshops
Pueblo Studio offers workshops and training series for organizations, communities, and individuals who want to facilitate storytelling in ways that center justice, care, and reciprocity. Grounded in decolonial practices, our workshops explore how to engage storytelling as a liberatory tool—one that is trauma and culturally informed, honors the agency of the storyteller, and resists extractive approaches. Participants learn how to design and hold storytelling spaces rooted in respect, reciprocity, consent, repair, and relationship.
Workshop topics include:
Ethics of storytelling and informed consent
Storytelling tools and facilitation practices
Co-developing collective narratives with communities
Integrating stories into strategy, advocacy, and cultural work
These workshops equip participants with both the mindset and practical tools to sustain storytelling as a powerful force for justice and transformation.