Our Services
What we do
We work with individuals, groups, and institutions to bring forward tools, conversations, and stories about meaning, mental health, and climate change. Our lens on these topics emphasizes collective action and social justice.
Work with us as a storyteller, or collaborate with our creative team for a workshop or partner project. In addition to coaching people through their stories, we provide a wide range of communications, strategy, and content development services.
Eco-Anxious Stories Consulting
Rachel has recently folded two of her professional projects together, aligning all story strategy consulting and communications work under the umbrella of Eco-Anxious Stories.
While the scope of our storytelling services is not limited to climate-themed projects, all Dwell House Communications projects will be contracted and billed under the business name “Eco-Anxious Stories Consulting” as of July 2024.
We’ll be updating this page with more information in the future, but for now, you can learn about story strategy services here.
Why Story Strategy?
To create meaningful change, we must build our capacity to tackle overlapping social and environmental crises. Storytelling helps us understand and engage with the world around us, while also making room to honour the grief and overwhelm that many of us feel while taking action.
Stories are a powerful tool for exploring identities and advocating for solutions, and they can re-energize, equip, and galvanize us for the work ahead. Get some help framing your narrative and sharing it with others.
Create Stories
Share ideas. We create works that amplify important messages, shift narratives, and cultivate community. We support people and teams who have valuable ideas to share – particularly those who like to get creative, strategic, and playful. We currently focus on digital platforms, and we’re exploring installations and experience-based projects.
Story-Based Strategy
Connect effectively. We support others to make an impact with their messages, helping communities reflect on their shared stories. We provide guidance through frameworks and exercises to gather and coach you through the development of strategic stories (as an individual, an organization, a business, a brand), including rich, nuanced climate stories.
Build Capacity
Initiate conversations. We provide workshops on strategic storytelling, public narrative, and eco-anxiety from a storytelling approach, as well as workshops on telling climate stories. We customize the content to best reach your audience. We’re storytellers, not mental health professionals – we share our perspectives and draw on the latest research about eco-anxiety to bring this conversation forward in your sphere of influence.
Build Tools
Explore interventions. We develop tools, supports, and partnerships that help others experience the climate crisis and that empower communities to engage in meaningful climate action. We work with people across a wide variety of fields to create shareable materials, fill in gaps in what’s out there, and connect the dots to existing efforts.
Partner Project ideas
Contract us to:
- Produce educational videos, podcasts, photo essays, and designs
- Design infographics, toolkits, worksheets, or curriculum, or learning guides
- Partner to translate your key messages, tips, or advice for a wider audience
- Develop creative projects that engage your audience in reflection & conversation about eco-anxiety
- Get coaching to tell your climate story
Support our work in other ways:
- Sponsor a storyteller or a story series related to a topic you’re passionate about
- Book a workshop or webinar, customized for your audience
- Invite us to speak on your program, podcast, or to work together on an interview for your publication