Centring Lived Experience: implementation guide for equity storytelling partnerships

This guide supports tertiary institutions to develop ethical, student-centred storytelling initiatives that strengthen belonging, agency, confidence, reflection and institutional learning.

The guide is informed by the UNSW Centring Lived Experience: Student Stories program and by contemporary scholarship on writing, reflection, student partnership and equity. It positions storytelling as a communication activity and a developmental practice through which students make meaning of their experiences, connect with others, strengthen their sense of self and contribute to institutional understanding.

The guide includes:

• Pedagogical foundations of the program
• Participant writing
• Flexible program structure
• Workshop resources
• Evaluation and reporting framework