Our Race

Our Race is a social enterprise with an emphasis on the redemptive and restorative nature of storytelling in a culturally diverse social environment. We educate and advocate for the empowerment of storytellers, and an inclusive and intelligent approach to storytelling by organisations and the wider community.

We seek to flip the prevailing power imbalance of our social environment through the development of tools and techniques to enable storytellers and communities to be the creators and directors of their own stories thereby deriving the maximum benefit from the process.

We acknowledge and value the strength and example of First Nations’ storytelling in which our own approach is grounded. Cultural knowledge and safety in practice are honoured and prioritised as the basis of mental health in a diverse environment and creating a more ethical and transformative approach to storytelling.

We believe in genuine engagement, reflection, critique and continual improvement to move towards restorative justice. We are committed to an anti-racist, intersectional approach, which is informed by an immersive commitment.

We aim to create a sustainable, humanistic model which will provide spaces for more voices to be heard without the compromising conditions generally placed on marginalised groups. To do this we have developed the Transformational Ethical Storytelling framework which helps guide us and our partners to a more ethical approach of storytelling.