Tools and Resources

These resources have been created specifically for community organisations to shape their storytelling in ways that are strategic, authentic, and values-aligned.

Stakeholder Mapping

Use to identify the people who matter - those affected by or influencing your work- and engage them meaningfully by understanding power, interest, and relationships

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Values Map

Explore the deeper ‘why’ behind your story and identify how your values align with your audience’s. This helps ensure your message is grounded in trust, care, and shared understanding.

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Story Canvas

Use this tool to clarify your story’s core purpose, audience, and outcome. Pair with the Stakeholder and Values Maps to shape meaningful, focused storytelling. (A4 print)

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Cheat sheet + Planning

Includes practical tips and examples for creating content across platforms. The reverse side features a planning tool to help you shape and share stories that resonate and inspire action..

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Recorded Presentations

Kayla Schwalgar

(Tapasā Creative Director)
explores Talanoa and the Va Method to help us:

▪ Centre connection, trust, and shared experience
Strengthen relational spaces (va) between people

▪ Honour oral traditions in contemporary storytelling

▪ Foster authentic, impact-driven narratives grounded in culture

Johnnie Freeland

(Ngāti Te Ata Waiohua, Ngāi Tūhoe)
shares indigenous systems thinking and Māori
worldviews to help us:

▪ Navigate complexity with purpose

▪ Tune into the karanga (the call) in our mahi

▪ Recognise storytelling as a regenerative, ancestral practice

▪ View climate change and poverty as tohu of deeper systemic ill-being