As a HRCLD practitioner, use your facilitation skills to ensure that people’s ‘truths’ are accepted as their own, that they feel supported to contribute and be heard and that their story is a valuable contribution to the community experience. Oral storytelling gives knowledge a soul.10 Storytelling is a central element of my Pacific cultures - Fijian and Samoan. It not only helps us express our experiences and who we are, but it connects us with others and empowers us to build meaningful relationships.11 Whenever we tell a story, we open ourselves to others, we communicate and share something about ourselves, and invite a response, either spoken or unspoken from our listeners. Stories always give rise to other stories.12 Tool 15: Force Field Analysis When to use Purpose Time Resources Stages 3 & 4 A tool to identify outcomes and plan strategies to achieve them. 2 – 4 hrs Paper, markers, sticky notes A force field analysis is a tool that the community can use to understand what is helping and what is hindering their ability to reach planned outcomes. It may involve sheets of paper and markers, lines in the sand, stick-it notes on your desk or computer graphics. Process 1. In groups, or individually, reflect on the present situation. Write key points in the place indicated above the vertical line. 2. Decide your outcome - What change do you want to make? What do want to achieve? Write this above the vertical line. 3. Think about the factors that support you reaching your outcome. Draw these as longer or shorter arrows indicating the force or impact they have. 4. Think about the factors that hinder movement toward your outcome. Draw these as longer or shorter arrows indicating the force or impact they have. 5. Reflect on your force field. What can you do to strengthen the supporting factors and weaken the hindering factors? 10. Hohaia, T., (2017). Making connections – the power of oral storytelling. Auckland: TEDxUoA. 11. Christian Baledrokadroka Storytelling empowers Pacific people https://pmc.aut.ac.nz/pmc-blog/storytelling-empowers-pacific-people-says-lopdell-award-winner-5295 12. Batt, T., (2006). The story sack: Storytelling and story making with young children, New Zealand: Playcentre Publications. APF HRCLD Guide 83