The Power of Graphic Style Stories to Empower Sustainable Healthy Eating Behaviors

Story sharing is an effective empowerment strategy in promoting health behavior change. As readers become engaged and identify with the characters, they become more receptive to the story�s message and more open to adopting behavior modeled by the story characters. This learning lab will start with an overview of story-making and the principles of creating success stories. Next, facilitators will provide clear steps to create stories with community co-designers and an example of a story seeking to increase food literacy in breast cancer survivors. Attendee groups will then choose a topic, identify three big ideas, and draft a script following a 3-step story arc. Groups will read their story out loud as its characters and complete a story impact survey. A Comic Life demo will be shared. It will end with a Q&A and sharing of resources including �Power of Stories How-To Guide�