Building Worlds: Strengthening storytelling practices towards just and liberated futures
- Date:19 June 2026
- Time:
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Location: online
“Storytelling isn't about building professional profiles, it’s about holding systems to account that have caused harm.”
About this webinar
Stories are a powerful force for social change. They can surface injustice, galvanise movements and help us imagine different futures. Yet storytelling practices can also reinforce inequitable power dynamics and cause further harm to people and communities already failed by unjust systems.
Join members of a peer learning community of storytelling practitioners from across Australia, working across arts and media, advocacy, service design, and community and place-based contexts. They came together to share experiences, challenge assumptions, and learn from one another about how storytelling can contribute to more just, equitable and liberated futures.
From that shared learning, this community of practitioners are developing a reflective tool to help organisations examine, strengthen and reimagine their storytelling practices.
Join this conversation to hear what they found - and help shape what comes next.
“The work that we are doing is actually about building worlds.”
About the convenor
morgan&co supports organisations to navigate the complexities of lived experience inclusion and social innovation. They do this through translating individual experiences and insights into systems level impact and co-creating conditions for power shifting change.
Morgan Cataldo
Founder
morgan&co
Morgan Cataldo (she/her) is the founder of morgan&co and a practice innovator working at the intersection of knowledge equity, participation and systems change. She works alongside organisations, communities and funders to rebalance knowledge and power in social impact practice, creating the conditions for genuine partnership with those most affected by the systems that shape their lives. Her work focuses on lived experience leadership, ethical storytelling and participation, and on building the conditions required for systems transformation. She supports organisations to move beyond performative inclusion towards more relational, power-aware and purposeful practice. Morgan leads initiatives at state and national levels, including On Our Own Terms, advancing lived experience leadership as a driver of structural and cultural change. Morgan is a Visiting Fellow with the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University and serves on the Board of Collaboration for Impact.
Perrie Ballantyne
Visiting Fellow
RMIT University
Perrie Ballantyne (she/her) is a strategic designer and practical facilitator of social innovation and systems change initiatives, with unique experience running programs, teams and enterprises in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the UK. She is a trusted partner for ambitious projects that invite diverse collaborators – communities, services, philanthropy, universities and government – to work together towards more just and equitable futures. Perrie is currently a Visiting Fellow with the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University and lives on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. She has held leadership roles across design agencies and public and philanthropic institutions, including Innovation Unit, RMIT University, Save the Children, The Public Office and Nesta (the UK's innovation foundation). Perrie's work with morgan&co has spanned multiple ambitious and creative projects, each rooted in the belief that imagination, solidarity and learning can reshape what is possible.
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