ACTIVITY: Defining Narratives

Values-based counter-narrative.


For example, you could point out that using violent forms of Conversion Practices goes against commonly shared religious principles.
A campaign in Scotland focused on affirmative messages to counter the damaging narrative of Conversion Practices, telling people,

We will look at this in more detail in our next lesson on strategies to persuade people. This approach is central to these strategies.

ACTIVITY

List 4 or 5 of your opponents’ major arguments/discourse in favour of Conversion Practices
What messages do you think could prevent moveable audiences from “slipping” further away due to those arguments? Try as much as possible to mix factual and values-based approaches.