Storytelling for Advocacy

Each October, for 25 years—(with a brief pandemic time-out)—we’ve headed to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota to meet the new class of WomenHeart Champions: women with heart disease from across the nation who are using their stories to adv...

Storytelling for advocacy—as we define it—means sharing personal stories from lived experience publicly in order to advocate for some form of positive change. And at the center of the LPA Method of storytelling for advocacy is this core belief: sharing personal stories publicly is a significant act.

That’s why, when groups of new advocates are learning ...