Listen to real life stories from your healthcare community and expert speakers with a broad range of experience
Learn and build storytelling skills and develop your professional skills in your role and beyond
Share skills, knowledge, experience, and best practices to better support your peers

What is the HPCA Storytelling Community?

We humans use stories to make our universe meaningful. 
Stories influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Yet so often stories are left out of project and change management.
The HPCA Storytelling Community is a (free to join) group of enthusiasts, passionate about bringing people’s real life stories into the heart of change management. This community wants to find, practice and share stories; and build the storytelling skills that can help more product, project, programme, and change management professionals do their job more effectively.
We host regular sessions with expert speakers as well as bespoke Sounding Board workshops for those who want to practice the stories they wish to use to create influence, connection and insight.
Join the community; listen, learn, and share.

Upcoming Storytelling Session:

There will be monthly sessions in 2026 | Please register via our events page
 

Storytelling Community Session

Tuesday 23rd June 2026 10:30 – 11:30

“Storytelling to Build Community, Especially During Change” with Cheryl Farrell & Brin Hodgskiss

Storytelling builds community, especially during organizational disruption and crises. Sharing personal narratives facilitates employee engagement and change. As storytelling colleagues, we learn we are more alike than unalike.

This awareness fosters collaboration by lowering barriers of resistance. The interactive session includes discussion topics and takeaways for the workplace.

Storytelling Community Session

Tuesday 21st April 2026 14:00 – 16:00

“The Power of the Stories We Tell In Change” With Marianne Powell & Brin Hodgskiss

How can we harness storytelling to enable change in our organisation? We will look at storytelling through 2 different lenses.

The stories we can find, tell and create to support our change efforts
The stores that are already circulating in our organisation (as unwritten rules) that may block our efforts is we are not aware of them.

 

Storytelling Community Session

Tuesday 29th April 2025 14:00 – 16:00

“The Psychology of Change & Storytelling to Lead Yourself & Your Team Through Organisational Change” With Brin Hodgskiss & Jo Stanford

A timely session on understanding the psychology of change and storytelling, with models, tools and practical techniques for you to support yourself and your team to positively engage with organisational change and to come out healthy on the other side.

Storytelling Community Session

Wednesday 7th Nov 2024 10:00 – 11:00
“The benefits of the story-telling/story-listening loop within participatory research: exploring diverse experiences and methods for the co-production of knowledge” With Professor Antonia Liguori
In particular, we will focus on how different storytelling approaches could blur boundaries and expand opportunities for collaborative research, while proposing mutual learning and co-creation of knowledge as a way forward to improve our society.

Storytelling Community Session

Wednesday 11th Sept 2024 11:00 – 12:00
“How to Use Stories to Catalyze Change” With David Lee
Storytelling is a powerful communication modality for catalyzing learning and change, especially with people who don’t respond well to direct exhortations, advice, or PowerPoint presentations.
In this interactive presentation, we will explore how to take interesting everyday experiences and turn them into stories that can be used with both groups and with individuals to foster new perspectives, behaviors, and responses to the challenges they face.

Storytelling Community Session

Wednesday 1st May 2024 11:00 – 12:00
“The Power of Stories to Create Engagement & Change” With Dr Susanne Evans
Organisation change can be messy. But it doesn’t have to be! Learn how to build storytelling skills into your practice, including taking away templates and tools that you can start to use straight away.

Storytelling Community Session

Tuesday 2nd July 2024 11:00 – 12:00
“The role of Storytelling in changing mindsets and supercharging digital adoption” With Brin Hodgkiss
Stories make our lives meaningful. Yet digital transformation efforts don’t use this to deliver change. How might we do it better? How does this relate to serial murder?

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Storytelling Community Hosts