About
the question
Over the past four years, we've asked this question to more than 200 people at various events and on a podcast. We've found that people become more animated when the focus shifts to a person, project, or organisation that isn’t directly related to themselves.
Someone else opens this question up to everyone as a means of storytelling and connecting with others.
why someone else?
sharing hopeful stories
Creating deeper Connections
reframing our Starting Point
How many times do we start our meetings and events with a narrative around crisis and emergency?
For our personal and organisation well being and sustainability we think we need to start in a different place.
Culture
What if we were to start every meeting, every conference, every gathering with these three questions.
What is good?
What is working?
What is hopeful?
In the world right now are countless incredible people and organisations leading with solutions, impact, kindness, compassion, resilience, creativity, imagination, conservation…
Could this be our starting point, our culture, our mindful neurological preparation to the challenges we are all facing?
FAQs
There are two ways to upload your hopeful story about someone else. firstly you can write your story in under 250 words or you can record yourself by simply pressing the record button and following the prompts. If you record your story, you have up to one minute, so we recommend roughly crafting what you would like to say beforehand. Don't worry about getting the recording right first time, you can retake the recording as many times as you like. Whether you are writing or recording make sure to include the name of the person or organisation you would like to promote and what it is about them that inspires you and brings you hope. To start your story, you could start with the line "My story of hopefulness is..." if you are recording and finished in 30 seconds, that’s fine!
Multiple stories a day has the potential to be overwhelming and meaningless. By being less focussed on keeping our own profile up to date, we focus on others and fuel the vision of Someone Else.
This is a networking and storytelling platform that is designed to promote stories of hopefulness. If you see or hear something that is of concern please report immediately.
Other organisations promoting great stories
If for some reason you are struggling to find good stories to share, we highly recommend you subscribe to Positive News magazine. We also love Reasons To Be Cheerful and Antidote.