2025-present: Clarity and Sustainability Era

In 2025, the direction we wanted to take got clearer. We realized that the work we were doing in storytelling was important: that it added light to darkness, that it empowered participants of our programs to take charge of narratives, that work in storytelling kept people human in a landscape where many are asked to automate.

What we were doing wrong was not something for other people—it was the stuff to ourselves. We were going at projects with very extroverted energy: being on stages, running games, gathering hundreds and hundreds of people into rooms. That didn't align with our more grounded, introverted energy.

As we began more small-group focused projects, such as running an event with Sustainability Women APAC at the Mandala Club, where we focused on rebuilding the narratives that women who worked in sustainability had towards their workplaces, we realized that clearly introspective spaces were more sustainable for us—and still highly productive for society.

From 2026, we leaned into that change. We met new partners and began working on more projects and storytelling classes, in particular, for smaller groups of people, with clear, introspective energy. At places like Book Bar and with project co-founders, like Liyana Ow Yong, PhD, a molecular biologist who is also interested in novel-writing, we began offering creative writing programs that catered to people exploring the creativity that needed a community and some structure.