Communicating climate resilience
in impactful ways:
- Are you struggling to engage your colleagues or clients with the urgent need to adapt everyday practices and priorities?
- What kind of story needs to be told, to create a shared sense of purpose and identity around environmental issues?
- Do you need to engage a wider public with your resilience related goals or expertise?
- Do you need to communicate key technical information in an engaging and memorable way?
At Vesper Hill, we share your desire to respond positively and inclusively to the resilience challenges we all face. And we understand the frustration that can arise when it feels like no one cares or ‘gets it’.
That’s why we use storytelling methods, to humanise difficult content, and thus engage hearts as well as minds. We’ve often been told that our work has ‘made the penny drop’ for people… that there’s been some kind of lightbulb moment. This is because we’ve created the conditions for people to respond, imaginatively, on their own terms. We don’t just tell them what to think.
"We found working with Vesper Hill hugely inspiring. Our team members who met with them to explore the meaning of resilience found it stimulating and personally worthwhile. The outcomes from this research stage of the project helped us understand where, as a business, to focus on capacity building and for Steve and Angel the research was the jumping off point to create a unique new performance piece. We are really pleased with both the creative process and the final production."
Steve Maslen CMLI
Head of Sustainability & Environment, JBA Consulting
How our process can help:
1. Listening. We start with the story. That means listening, first, for yours. When we understand your brief, we’ll carefully interview people within or beyond your organisation, to better understand your needs and challenges. We always act as independent brokers, conducting these conversations in confidence, so that respondents can speak freely. We’ve found that this part of the process, in and of itself, can prove very valuable for those being listened to.
2. Responding. Next, we’ll feed back. We’ll tell you what we’re hearing, and how we think we should respond creatively. Then we’ll then ask you to respond. Are you happy with what we’re proposing? What might we be missing? This phase involves you, the client, in shaping the creative process.
3. Creating. Next, we’ll go away and do what we do. Writing, rehearsing, filming, recording… whatever the project needs. Then we’ll present the results in the place, time and context that best addresses your brief.
After presenting what we’ve made, we’ll invite responses from your audience — incorporating this feedback into any further iterations of the work. We can also incorporate feedback and action points into written report materials, as needed.
We hope the end result will be something you’ll be proud to share with your community and stakeholders.
“Steve Scott-Bottoms’ ability to explore and replay complex issues like climate adaptation is a real asset to organisations like Leeds City Council. He asks good, probing questions to develop his material, and he is an excellent teller of stories that are relevant and extremely helpful to a wide range of audiences.”
Jonathan Moxon
Executive Manager for Flood Risk & Climate Resilience, Leeds City Council
Get in touch
If you’d like to have discuss possibilities for working with us, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
We’d love to hear from you.