Why Stories?

The Power of Stories

In a way that no lecture can, stories make solutions understandable, familiar, and desirable, because stories help us imagine the possibilities of daily life with those solutions in place.

With engaging and entertaining stories, we can open imaginations to how great the world could be, and the steps needed to get there.

By building understanding, familiarity, and desire for attainable possibilities, solutions-inspired stories can build public support for real-life legislation, actions, reforms, and implementation.

If we can Imagine it, we can Build it, and then we can Live it.

Stories have The unique power to:

Open Imaginations

Lower Defenses

Build Hope

Educate

Inspire Action

Accelerate Progress

The mission of World Builders Incubator (WBI) is to speed the pace of progress with narrative arts, entertainment, and educational resources focused on social and environmental solutions.

To accomplish its mission, WBI incubates solutions-focused fictional entertainment in all genres and mediums, including books, TV, film, plays, video games, and more.

WBI’s 6 program building blocks bring together thought-leaders, creatives, producers, and publishers for a 2-year, Inspiration-to-Distribution Story Arc.

Why These Stories are Needed

Humanity is in the throes of apocalyptic ideation. Whether it’s war, climate disaster, oppression, or plagues, a sense of inevitable collapse has become prevalent.

Many artists have done the laudable work of raising awareness about the issues we face and the potential outcomes if we don’t correct course.

While raising awareness about issues is still necessary, we have very few narratives that show humanity getting it together before we burn the world to the ground.

The result: apocalypse, violence, and collapse have become normalized to the point that no other future seems imaginable.

The world needs stories that normalize solutions.

If we can Imagine it, we can Build it, and then we can Live it.

Informed solutions exist for nearly all global issues, but the complexities are mostly known to activists, thought leaders, and lawmakers. What we hear are mostly sound bites and slogans. In the absence of deeper understanding, fear-mongers are able to twist the meaning of those sound bites and obstruct progress.

Change-makers spend the majority of their time working to educate, counter misinformation, and build public support.

Even when educated, we lack the collective will to make needed changes.

As a result, the pace of change is excruciatingly slow.

The Solution is Simple

World Builders Incubator will bring Thought Leaders together with teams of Creatives and Decision-Makers to create and disseminate engaging stories that normalize solutions for global issues.