Published Apr 2025
morgan&co: Ethical storytelling for social change
This learning community brings together ethical storytelling practitioners and social enterprises from different spaces and places across the country, who are doing good work in the margins. The purpose is to convene a space of solidarity to share learnings and lived experiences, develop good practice together, and co-develop resources for broader sharing to build the capability of the Australian social enterprise sector.
About the learning community
The ethical storytelling for social change learning community is a space for social enterprises committed to shifting narratives and telling more ethical stories with and about the communities they support, belong to and/or represent. Convened as a space of solidarity, this community brings together those working in and alongside the margins—those who are often overlooked yet hold deep practice wisdom and powerful stories to share.
Together, members will explore ethical storytelling principles, co-create resources, and share their experiences in a generative environment. The goal is not only to support each other in better storytelling practices, but to lift the capability of the broader Australian social enterprise sector through collective insight, creativity, and care.
About the convenor
This learning community is co-convened by:
- Morgan Cataldo, founder of morgan&co, is a practitioner whose work is grounded in narrative justice, participatory design, and social science. She brings over a decade of experience working at the intersections of lived experience practice inclusion, social advocacy and activism, and systems change.
- Perrie Ballantyne, from Third Story, an organisation focused on designing and growing radically better outcomes in education, health, and communities. Perrie is a systems thinker and creative facilitator, with a long-standing commitment to human-centred change and equitable collaboration.
How will this learning community work?
Members will:
- Meet three times over 12 months.
- Each session will be a half-day online workshop.
- Each workshop will run for approximately 4 hours.
How to get involved
The convenors will develop a targeted expression of interest form for social enterprises with a strong interest in ethical storytelling, particularly those led by or working alongside communities often underrepresented in mainstream narratives.
To learn more or express interest, reach out to:
Morgan Cataldo – morgan@morganandco.au
Perrie Ballantyne – perrie.ballantyne@thirdstory.org
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