From Thoughts on the UN Sustainable Development Goals to a Sustainable Platform for “True Storytelling” about Cooperative Opportunities

Problem and background: This chapter is written based on a study that has taken place over the last four years and it revolves around the difficulty in creating a framework to come around all aspects about the wish to be sustainable and understand the nature of the UN sustainable goals and these problems as well. Question: The chapter’s problem statement is as follows: How can we, through an action research process, influence the very complex processes in being sustainable and create stories about that, which shows that our process is sustainable in all 17 goals? Methods: In these two case studies, we are positioned in the paradigm of hermeneutical phenomenology. We have constructed our methodology based on a plethora of qualitative methods, fieldnotes and several workshops based on the methods of Appreciative Inquiry and future workshop. Findings: Through our case studies, we have worked together with several coresearchers in workshops and conferences, and based on our interpretations, we have identified aspects which we perceive as important aspects towards building a storytelling model for sustainable processes. Conclusion: The difficulties in collaboration stem from several aspects, these being relations between the members of different groups’ perceptions and organizational difficulties. For the co-researchers to be able to affect the collaboration they must applicate new insights, as to spread their understandings with their colleagues. Through the externalization of their new insights, the co-researchers might be able to provoke the new practices of the collaboration. We have found that we were able to influence our co-researchers’ collaboration through our disturbances created by active engagement with the co-researchers.