The Culture Hack Method

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  Introduction

  We open by exploring the metacrisis and its cultural roots. You will delve into the transformative power of narratives and their role in shaping systems and actions in the world. We share the Culture Hack Labs approach to Narrative-Led Systems Change: Justice plus Onto-Shift, which emphasizes that demands for justice must be paired with a deeper shift in ontologies—the fundamental ways we perceive, relate to, and engage with the world.
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  Step 1: Ask

  Learn to craft a Point of View statement, a crucial step that outlines your narrative intervention’s context, goals, and guides your journey through key questions about identity, motivation, desired outcomes, and methods of change.
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  Step 2: Listen

  Transform your Point of View (POV) into a Listening Model, enabling you to identify Narrative Communities in narrative space. You will learn about big and small listening techniques, collect relevant data and sort your data into Narrative Communities.
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  Step 3: Understand

  First you will analyse the Attention, Network and Power, as well as the Language of your Narrative Communities. You will then Map the Communities using Justice-Ontology axes to reveal key patterns and positions - building on the “Justice plus onto-shift” approach introduced in the Introduction. Finally, you will identify where the Window of Discourse sits and where we want to shift it. This is the foundation for your narrative intervention strategy.