Narrating the future you want
Joining the dots to a way of life where people and nature thrive
Thrive Story helps clients develop public policy positions, define communication strategies and strengthen relationships with customers and stakeholders.
We work with companies, government agencies and social enterprises.
Methods
Insightful thinking, playful design, practical solutions. Thrive Story uses systems thinking, ecological design and storytelling to help clients achieve strategic results that engage hearts and minds. We offer a rare mix of creative and analytical thinking to address complex issues such as climate change, energy transformation and urban sustainability.
Services
- Policy writing
- Service design
- Communication strategy
- Stakeholder engagement
- Facilitation
- Imagination
Sectors
- Infrastructure and essential services - water, energy, waste, transport, health
- Strategic land use planning
- Environment and sustainability
Clients
- Public sector e.g. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment
- Social enterprises e.g. Good Cycles
- Peak bodies e.g. AIRAH
Project examples
Policy
Client: Department of Planning Industry and Environment
Brief: Create a strategic framework for communicating air quality
Issue: Multiple agencies have roles in delivering clean air but lacked a cohesive approach to communicating and engaging people on the wicked problem of air pollution.
Solution: Thrive Story identified relevant NSW Government, national and international policies as well as industry standards for quality, communications and environmental health and emergency management. Thrive Story also interviewed key subject matter specialists. Thrive Story synthesised the findings into a strategic framework to unite key NSW Government agency heads, senior executives and their service and program managers in working together effectively to reduce air pollution and its harmful effects on human and ecological health in NSW. This supports the NSW Government Brand Promise , Customer Commitments, Charter for Public Participation , Emergency Management Plan and legal and policy commitments to clean air, climate change and human health.
Collaborations
- Storytellers NSW
- Humans of HVACR
- Wollemi Common
- Wicked Elephants
Liz Locksley is co-founder with AIRAH’s Phil Wilkinson of Humans of HVACR. Humans of HVACR is a sector-wide collaboration to humanise and transform what is possibly the most invisible industry, with the greatest potential to reverse global warming - heating ventilation air-conditioning and refrigeration. Liz is the story and secret sauce mix master. Mechanical heating, cooling and refrigeration is the elephant in the plant room. The equipment collectively chews through 22% of all electricity generated in Australia! Refrigerant management is the surprising #1 action to reverse global warming in Paul Hawken's latest project #Drawdown.
Creative work
- Thrive Story Blog
- Australian Red Riding Hood
- Cumquat Fest
- Sunshine Power
- Goblins Gold
Goblin’s Gold
In a dark cave, on the wooded escarpment of Alderley Edge in England, a fragment of Goblin’s Gold, is snatched from behind the wizard, by a band of wise and ancient flower fairies. In that fragment, they discover one of Planet Earth's toughest and most tenacious of creatures.
Contact Thrive Story to organise a live storytelling with Liz Locksley
GOBLIN's Gold - Book for web A4 V2.0.pdfGoblin's Gold - the mini-book!
The tale of a quest and the thrivability of all things
Read the full story here
Coming soon.... Sunshine power
Nature's magic is 100% renewable and 100% solar powered. Homegrown cherry tomatoes and cumquats are the inspiration for a new project.
Watch this space.....
Australian Red Riding Hood
Thrive Story created a new eco-feminist version of Red Riding Hood for Dark Enchantment hosted by the Australian Fairytale Society and Storytellers NSW. It was told live on 17 November at Dark Enchantment.
