Every engagement
begins with question.
What needs to be held here? Who has stopped being invited, and why? What would it mean for this person, this family, this organisation, to design for full presence rather than careful management?
SenStoria works across five areas. Each is distinct in scope and audience. All are unified by the same practice: Threshold Design, designing the conditions under which people remain visible, known, and present across change.
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Remembering Together
Some of the most important conversations between families never happen. Not because people don't want them, but because no one knows how to begin.
Remembering Together is a structured experience grounded in reminiscence therapy and narrative psychology. It guides families through six chapters of meaning-making, not just memory retrieval. The result is not a scrapbook or a record. It is an experience of being genuinely seen and held.
Available as a digital guide with a companion PDF designed for families who want to begin before change arrives, and for those already in the middle of it.
This is for individuals and families at any stage: early prevention, active aging, navigating diagnosis, or wanting to preserve a story before time makes it harder..
Guided Remembering
This is not therapy, nor is it memoir writing or crisis management. Guided Remembering is a facilitated process with Dr. Julie Watson that helps families develop the shared language, relational practices, and sensory anchors that keep a person fully present in the lives of those who love them, even as things change. Drawing on reminiscence, narrative, and family systems frameworks, it helps families move from managing change to designing around it with intention and care.
This is for families navigating early cognitive change, significant role transition, or the quiet awareness that something important needs to be preserved, and who want more than a digital guide can offer.
Threshold Design Consulting
Most organizations are designed around safety and efficiency. Both matter. But what often gets pushed to the edges of the system is the relational texture: the shared language, the sensory environment, the daily practices that keep a person recognisable and present. SenStoria works at a systems level to change that, across four specialty areas. Organizations may engage a single area or commission work across all four as an integrated engagement.
Environment & Experience Design: The physical and programmatic work: neuroaesthetic environmental audits, experience design for memory-sensitive spaces, and cultural programming that includes rather than accommodates.
Relational Language & Culture: The organizational interior work. This goes inside the institution to change how people think, speak, and relate to one another, shaping the language, tone, and daily practices that determine whether a person feels seen or managed. Grounded in clinical family systems and media psychology, it is work most design consultants cannot offer.
Strategic & Research Consulting: Intellectual partnership for organisations, foundations, and funding bodies working at the leading edge of aging, memory, and experience design. Not execution — thinking. For clients who need a research-literate strategic partner.
Media & Narrative Consulting: Advisory work for productions, broadcasters, writers, and theatre-makers on how dementia, memory, and aging are represented — asking not just whether a portrayal is accurate, but whether it dignifies.
For senior living operators, memory care facilities, hospice organisations, healthcare systems, cultural institutions, and creative productions seeking to strengthen the human experience layer of their work.
Workshops & Speaking
Sessions are intellectually grounded and designed to move an audience, not just inform one. Topics are drawn from across the practice and adapted for half-day, full-day, or conference formats. Available in person and virtually.
SAMPLE TOPICS
Threshold Design in Practice: Designing for Presence Across the Arc of Aging
The Post-Invitation Argument: Rebuilding Belonging in Dementia and Aging
Designing Relational Continuity in Early Memory Change
Shared Language for Dignity-Centered Care
What Neuroaesthetics Tells Us About Identity and Aging
The Threshold of Threes: A Framework for Designing Across Self, Relationships, and Environment
Caregiver Identity and Wellbeing
Introduction to Memory Experience Design
For professional communities, care teams, cultural organisations, healthcare systems, and public audiences.
Cultural & Immersive Experiences
This is SenStoria's most expansive and experimental work. Installations, dementia-inclusive cultural events, participatory performances, and community experiences that bring people living with dementia back into cultural life.
The post-invitation argument doesn't just belong in care systems and family living rooms. It belongs in galleries, theatres, and public squares. Cultural & Immersive Experiences are how SenStoria takes that argument into the world — creating access points for people who would never walk through the door of a care organisation, but who are carrying the same questions.
THEMES EXPLORED
Recognizability: what it means to be seen as yourself across time
Emotional residue: what stays when facts don't
Intergenerational continuity: what passes between people across generations
Identity under transition: what remains when roles and memory change
For theatres, galleries, museums, libraries, community arts organisations, and public bodies interested in co-creating experiences at the intersection of memory, aging, identity, and art. Open to proposals and partnership conversations.
How the
work fits
together
Not sure
where to begin?
Most people arrive here knowing something matters, but not always which offering names it best. That is what the first conversation is for. Tell us where you are. We will help you find the right place to begin.
INDIVIDUALS & FAMILIES
Start with Remembering Together
The guide is available to start the work now, at your own pace.
ORGANIZATIONS & INSTITUTIONS
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Reach out and tell us what you are working on. We can take it from there.
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YYou don't need to have everything figured out before you reach out. Together, we can find the right place to begin.
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