COIN Collective Insights

Uniting us to tell stories and take action.

[COIN Collective Insights @OurInsights]

Explore and share life changing stories on COIN (https://t.co/xXom31ls7y) and help shape the future; social change is born when our stories inspire others to imagine a brighter future.

#Stories #OurStories #RealStories #ShareYourStory #ChangeMakers

[COIN Collective Insights @OurInsights]

"In a time of such unsettling transition, telling a compelling story to coworkers, bosses, friends, or family—or strangers in a conference room—inspires belief in our motives, character, and capacity to reach the goals we’ve set". By @HerminiaIbarra

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“Life is incredibly complex, there are lots of things going on in our environment and in our lives at all times, and in order to hold onto our experience, we need to make meaning out of it... The way we do that is by structuring our lives into stories.”

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"Psychotherapist @Philippa_Perry... explains that we can be undone by our tendency to create narratives about ourselves: 'We make a meaning and it fits for a while and when it ceases to fit... maybe that's what constitutes a crisis'."
- Stephanie Billen in the Observer in 2016

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"One evening, I noticed some trees had been marked with orange paint. (...) Whenever I’d seen trees marked in this way, they disappeared within weeks."

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"The tipping point for me where I was like, ‘I'm gonna vote for Hillary Clinton’ is [cos] I read that when she was working at a law firm, she wrote her own maternity leave policy [cos] up until that time they had never had a woman return to work" @agarbes

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"Seeing these strong and highly sensitive artists come together—one who has been vocal about her own abortions and one who made many works about motherhood—gave me the opportunity to accept this as a loss for the first time..."

by @EmilySteerAW

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[Silvia Federici] "didn’t quite see feminism as central to her political views until in 1972, when a friend passed her a tract in Italian by the feminist Mariarosa Dalla Costa... “Women and the Subversion of the Community.”"

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@Ruth_STaylor Hi Ruth, on the COIN website we're encouraging people to share their stories of life altering moments as a step in inspiring social change. Currently trying to spread the word as widely as possible, thanks.

https://t.co/gB0HWPSPnj

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

As the year ends, I've shared a piece on COIN aka @OurInsights about a life-lesson on friendship, learnt years ago though perhaps later than I should have 😄.

What life-lesson do you want to pass on?
#LifeLessons #OurStories #RealStories #ShareYourStory

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[COIN Collective Insights @OurInsights]

Plato said “Those who tell the stories rule society.”

#stories #changemakers #ShareYourStory

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Access to secure housing has never been more important. Homes have transformed into schools, offices, a sanctuary. This heartfelt reflection of living without secure housing gives us insight into what it might be like without a home https://t.co/iF3lW7UIoj #homelessness #home