Storytelling

Podcasting for Community Engagement

Stories have power. They shape our thinking and how we view the world. They inform our values and how we live our lives. But now we’re starting to realise that many of the stories we retell and share are not fit for the world we currently live in, or the challenges we’ll face in the future. And many are not relevant to our community or our place.

We need new stories. Stories of hope and new possibilities. Stories of our own places, by our own people. Imagine being able to gather and share the stories of your people, from your community, for your community. What are their aspirations for a new way forward? What will they tell you when literally handed the mic?

Why a podcast?

Podcasts are a unique, open-source, popular and accessible form of audio storytelling that have great potential to support community engagement projects. Podcasting provides a platform for community members to tell their own stories, hear the stories of their neighbors, and collectively share their story, authentically and in their own words, with the world.

What we offer

In collaboration with you, we co-design, host, and produce a community engagement podcast series centred around a regenerative approach to tourism and/or community development that captures the essence of your people, stories, place, and aspirations.

Why The Centre for GOOD Travel?

Debbie Clarke and Josie Major have demonstrated success with the GOOD Awaits - The Regenerative Tourism NZ Podcast, and Latitude 40: Redesigning Tourism on a Small Island. Both are trained regenerative practitioners applying regenerative design skills to a tourism and community development context.

Value Delivered

As a community engagement and digital story-telling tool

Empowers the community to have ownership of the wider project and to express their ideas and opinions to each other and the project team
Ignites the interest and passion of community listeners, provides a safe and accessible entry point into the project, and deepens community members understanding of and relationship with each other
Records the stories, ideas, and visions of community members in a format that will be available forever, creating an historical archive of this process and period

As a marketing tool

The podcast could be shared with potential visitors to attract people who resonate with the stories shared
Prospective visitors would have an opportunity to develop an understanding of your community before their visit and therefore act in a way that supports the community’s aspirations during their trip.

Work with us

Our comprehensive process includes the following:

Project Development: Co-design goals & intended outcomes, project research and familiarisation, interview question design.
Project administration: logistics, guest selection, guest research, guest scheduling, podcast hosting platform recommendations, success checklist for client completion.
Production: recoding, editing, audio mastering, audio file creation.

Case Study: Flinders Island

In collaboration with Designing Tourism, we co-crated a community engagement podcast for Flinders Island as part of their Islander Way Project - read more about the project here.

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