Dr Joanna Wheeler

Joanna is the founder and director of TransformativeStory. Over the last 20 years, she has designed hundreds of storytelling processes around the world. Each process is unique. But in each one, storytellers combine personal and collective forms of storytelling and use drawing, dance, music, creative writing, drama, photography, video, audio, and sculpture to craft powerful stories.

She has worked with thousands of storytellers from a wide range of groups, from activists against sexual violence in Cape Town to young people from southern Africa working for gender equity. She is passionate about making the creative practice of story-making better for everyone. 

She also works with groups and organisations that want to build their capacity to use storytelling in an ethical and effective way.