For Families & Communities
Explore the living world together
Connection with nature can begin with something very simple: a question, a walk, a story, a tree, a shared observation or the discovery of something we had never noticed before.
Storybranch creates experiences and resources that help families and communities explore science, nature and sustainability together through investigation, storytelling, play, creativity and shared learning.
Our aim is not only to provide information, but to create opportunities for people to notice, understand, participate and feel that they belong within the living world.
Families can discover together. Communities can learn from one another, strengthen local connections and create new ways of engaging with the places they share.
Choose your pathway
How would you like to explore with Storybranch?
For Families
Discover science and nature through experiences you can share
Turn scientific, environmental and sustainability topics into meaningful programs, investigations and resources that encourage curiosity, systems thinking and active participation.
Outdoor experiences
Family investigations
Stories
Games
Learning resources
For Communities & Local Organizations
Create shared experiences that connect people, place and knowledge
We help to develop participatory programs, nature-based experiences and learning concepts rooted in local places, stories and environmental challenges.
Community programs
Co-creation
Citizen participation
Local stories
Learning environments
Some examples:
For Families
Challenges Storybranch can help families overcome
“We want to spend meaningful time together outdoors, but do not always know what to look for or explore.”
Nature becomes more interesting when we begin to notice patterns, structures, relationships and small details that are easy to walk past.
Storybranch develops guided and self-guided experiences that turn walks, forests, parks and neighbourhoods into places for discovery.
Possible outcomes:
- Guided nature walks.
- Family investigations.
- Observation challenges.
- Exploration cards.
- Seasonal discovery activities.
“My child asks big questions about nature and science, and I want to explore the answers together.”
Adults do not need to know every answer before exploring science with children.
Our resources use questions, visual explanations, real scientific images, stories and investigation to help families learn together.
Possible outcomes:
- Books.
- Investigation guides.
- Visual science resources.
- Games.
- Activity sheets and family learning materials.
“We want children to connect with nature without turning learning into another school lesson.”
Learning outside school can be playful, surprising and driven by curiosity.
Storybranch combines storytelling, imagination, observation and science so children can explore serious ideas without losing the joy of discovery.
Possible outcomes:
- Story-led exploration.
- Nature games.
- Character-guided investigations.
- Creative activities.
- Family workshops.
“We want to understand sustainability in ways that connect with everyday life.”
Sustainability becomes easier to understand when we can see how food, materials, biodiversity, energy, consumption and everyday choices connect with larger systems.
Storybranch creates experiences that help families explore those relationships through real examples rather than abstract messages.
Possible outcomes:
- Family workshops.
- Sustainability games.
- Circularity challenges.
- Materials investigations.
- Systems-thinking activities.
Family Format
Ways families can explore with Storybranch
Outdoor Discovery Experiences
Guided or self-guided experiences that encourage families to observe, question and investigate the natural world together.
Family Workshops
Interactive experiences around trees, forests, biodiversity, materials, sustainability, systems thinking and other scientific themes.
Stories & Scientific Adventures
Stories can open a door into science. We use narrative, characters and visual exploration to help families encounter complex ideas in memorable ways.
Games & Investigation Challenges
Playful challenges can encourage observation, collaboration, problem-solving and systems thinking while explore real scientific questions.
Books & Learning Resources
Our publications and resources can extend an experience beyond a workshop or outdoor activity and provide new questions to explore at home.
Custom Family Experiences
We can also develop experiences for festivals, libraries, museums, community events and other settings where families learn and explore together.
Some examples:
For Communities & Local Organizations
Challenges we can help you explore
“We want people in our community to feel more connected to the place where they live.”
A place becomes meaningful through its ecology, history, materials, memories and the people who live there.
Storybranch can help communities explore those connections through participatory storytelling, investigation and shared experiences.
Possible outcomes:
- Community workshops.
- Story-collection projects.
- Local nature experiences.
- Intergenerational activities.
- Place-based learning programs.
“We want to bring different generations together around something meaningful.”
Older and younger generations often carry different forms of knowledge, memory and experience.
We can develop projects that create opportunities for those perspectives to meet through stories, local knowledge, environmental observation and shared creation.
Possible outcomes:
- Intergenerational storytelling:
- Community exhibitions.
- Oral-history-inspired activities.
- Nature investigations.
- Collaborative creative projects.
“We want residents to participate in understanding or caring for their local environment.”
Participation becomes more meaningful when people understand what they are observing and why their contribution matters.
Storybranch can help develop educational and engagement components around community observation, environmental participation and citizen-science-inspired initiatives.
Possible outcomes:
- Observation programs:
- Community field activities.
- Participant guides.
- Citizen-science engagement concepts.
- Local learning events.
“We have a park, trail or outdoor space that could offer a richer learning experience.”
Outdoor spaces can become places for exploration when interpretation is connected with what people can actually observe around them.
Storybranch can develop the learning, storytelling and visitor-experience concept for trails and outdoor environments, working with relevant design and technical partners when physical infrastructure is required.
Possible outcomes:
- Interpretive trail concepts.
- Discovery routes.
- Activity stations.
- Story pathways.
- Signage content.
- Outdoor learning journeys.
“We are planning a play or learning environment and want it to have more meaning than equipment alone.”
Play environments can encourage imagination, movement, discovery and understanding of natural systems.
Storybranch can contribute scientific, educational, narrative and participatory concepts to playgrounds and immersive learning environments, in collaboration with the professionals responsible for technical design and construction.
Possible outcomes:
- Learning concepts.
- Story worlds.
- Activity zones.
- Science themes.
- Co-design workshops.
- Briefs for design partners.
“We want to involve the community in a sustainability initiative, but need something people can actually participate in.”
Community sustainability becomes more tangible when people can explore a challenge together, contribute knowledge and understand how local actions connect with larger systems.
Storybranch can help shape participatory learning and engagement around local sustainability and circularity questions.
Possible outcomes:
- Community workshops.
- Systems-mapping activities.
- Circularity challenges.
- Co-creation sessions.
- Educational campaigns.
- Participation concepts.
Communities & Local Organizations Format
How Storybranch can work with communities
Community Engagement Programmes
Participatory programs that use science, local knowledge, creativity and shared investigation to strengthen connection with place and with one another.
Intergenerational Storytelling & Local Knowledge
Projects that create bridges between past and present by bringing together local stories, memories, cultural knowledge and contemporary scientific understanding.
Nature & Citizen Participation
Engagement concepts that help residents observe, investigate and contribute to understanding local environments.
Interpretive Trails & Outdoor Learning Journeys
We develop the educational, scientific and narrative layer of trails and outdoor experiences, what people notice, investigate, learn and remember along the way.
Play & Immersive Learning Concepts
Scientific and story-based concepts for playgrounds and other environments where play can become a pathway to curiosity, investigation and connection with nature.
Sustainability & Circularity Engagement
Workshops and participatory experiences that help communities explore environmental challenges, relationships and possible actions through systems thinking.
What Storybranch brings
Scientific Integrity
Our experiences are grounded in scientific knowledge and curiosity about how the living world works.
Connection with nature
We create opportunities to observe and experience the living world directly, not only learn about it from a distance.
Systems thinking
We help people notice relationships between nature, materials, communities, culture and everyday life.
Stories with Meaning
Storytelling can connect knowledge with memory, identity and place while creating curiosity about scientific questions.
Integrational Learning
Children and adults can learn from one another, bringing different questions, experiences and forms of knowledge into the same conversation.
