Issue Mapping Through Personal Experience

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A tool for turning lived truth into system change.

Too often, systems ask us to translate our stories into their language: checklists, data points, jargon. But real change doesn’t start with their categories. It starts with your experience.

This printable, fillable PDF guides you through a reflective, powerful process of:

  • Naming what happened

  • Identifying the systems involved

  • Tracing the core issue underneath your experience

  • Mapping where power flows (and where it doesn’t)

  • Choosing your first next step; whether that’s storytelling, organizing, or policy work

Whether you're an advocate, peer supporter, lived experience expert, or community leader, this tool helps transform what you know in your bones into a compass for change.

A tool for turning lived truth into system change.

Too often, systems ask us to translate our stories into their language: checklists, data points, jargon. But real change doesn’t start with their categories. It starts with your experience.

This printable, fillable PDF guides you through a reflective, powerful process of:

  • Naming what happened

  • Identifying the systems involved

  • Tracing the core issue underneath your experience

  • Mapping where power flows (and where it doesn’t)

  • Choosing your first next step; whether that’s storytelling, organizing, or policy work

Whether you're an advocate, peer supporter, lived experience expert, or community leader, this tool helps transform what you know in your bones into a compass for change.