Ways to Work Together
Every engagement begins with a question.
What needs to be held here? What has been reduced that shouldn't be? What would it mean for this person — this family, this organization — 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.
Not sure where to begin? That is what the first conversation is for. Tell us where you are — we will help you find the right place to start.
A structured practice for holding someone's story — their humor, their history, the things that make them themselves — while they are still fully present to share it.
Grounded in reminiscence therapy and narrative psychology. Six chapters of meaning-making — not just memory retrieval. Not a scrapbook. Not a questionnaire. A way of being genuinely present to one another while there is still time.
Available as a beautifully designed digital guide ($67) with a companion PDF and facilitation guidance. Designed for families who want to begin before change arrives — and for those already in the middle of it.
For individuals and families at any stage — early prevention, active aging, navigating diagnosis, or wanting to preserve a story before time makes it harder.
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.
For families navigating early cognitive change, significant role transition, or the quiet awareness that something important needs to be held — and who want more than a digital guide can offer.
For organisations ready to examine not just what they do — but what their systems, spaces, and language communicate about who belongs. Most organisations are designed around safety and efficiency. Both matter. But what often gets pushed to the edges is the relational texture — the shared language, the sensory environment, the daily practices that keep a person recognisable and present.
Environment & Experience Design
Neuroaesthetic environmental audits, experience design for memory-sensitive spaces, and cultural programming that includes rather than accommodates.
Relational Language & Culture
Inside the institution — changing how people think, speak, and relate to one another. The language, tone, and daily practices that determine whether a person feels seen or managed.
Strategic & Research Consulting
Intellectual partnership for organisations, foundations, and funding bodies working at the leading edge of aging, memory, and experience design.
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.
Interactive programs that bring Threshold Design into rooms where it can shift thinking and practice. Sessions are intellectually grounded and designed to move an audience — not just inform one.
Available for half-day, full-day, or conference formats. In person and online.
Sample topics
For professional communities, care teams, cultural organisations, healthcare systems, and public audiences.
SenStoria's most expansive and experimental work. Installations, dementia-friendly cultural events, participatory performances, and community experiences that bring people living with dementia and cognitive change 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.
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.
How the Work Fits Together
Five offerings.
One practice.
Each offering is a different expression of the same conviction — that presence is something we can design for. They are distinct in scale, audience, and form. They are unified by Threshold Design.
Not Sure Where to Begin?
Most people arrive here knowing something matters.
Not always which offering names it best. That is what the first conversation is for.
Individuals & Families
Start with Remembering Together
The guide is available to begin the work now, at your own pace.
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Begin a Conversation
Reach out and tell us what you are working on. We can take it from there.
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You don't need to have everything figured out before you reach out. Together, we can see what your needs are.
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