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RTT is a pioneer in bringing bridge-building work to the entertainment and media industries.
From executives at major studios to showrunners and writers of popular TV shows and films (Handmaid’s Tale, Frasier, Grey’s Anatomy, The Lego Movie, The Good Doctor, Star Wars, etc.), we provide training and consultation to the people who shape our stories. We equip storytellers to translate across our divisions, transport us into each other’s worlds, close our perception gaps, and see each other’s humanity and dignity.
Storytellers can help millions of Americans better understand their societal counterparts, illuminate our most important conflicts, and enable us to envision living and working together in the face of them.
Broaden audiences and trust across regions, identities, and points of view
Depict humanizing, multi-dimensional characters with disparate perspectives and without caricature
Mediation techniques integrated into storytelling are good for stories, good for business, and good for society. Showrunners and creatives who have been through RTT programs report “eureka” moments, feeling that they have new tools to create perspective-changing stories, reach new audiences, and contribute to societal repair. In post-surveys, 100% report gaining tools they will use in their work and stories. Are you a working writer or showrunner?
We believe Hollywood creatives and executives can be among the heroes we need in this time of immense division, building collective imagination, will, and skill for a shared future.
A body of evidence points to the impact popular media can have on audiences’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior.
Depolarizing and rehumanizing media can transport people beyond their bubbles; provide a sense of empathy, trust, and shared humanity; and promote greater vision, motivation, and will to live and work together in community across our differences.
This training gave me strategies to understand people whose experiences and viewpoints are very different from my own and showed me how reactive my own mind can be. The techniques shared allowed me to see how dug-in we all can be, how to work around those tendencies, and—even if we don't agree—to better understand one another. This workshop is applicable to every aspect of my work, from storytelling and character development to managing teams, to working with collaborators.”
Though many of us in this industry consider ourselves open and empathetic, RTT’s tangible strategies for having meaningful connection across divides makes that actionable. RTT creates an environment in which vulnerability is welcome and growth is empowered. I want to emphasize the actionable part—it’s so helpful to have concrete tools that will allow us to dig deeper into the material that we’re working on and create more honest portraits of the people we don’t yet understand.”
This was an incredibly engaging, interactive, and valuable experience. The workshop created a supportive space to learn tools that can be used to engage in productive dialogue and craft narratives that help combat polarization in our society. I found the exercises to be highly effective, allowing us to test new skills in real and practical ways, while also connecting with peers from across various sectors of the entertainment business. I would strongly recommend this workshop to writers, executives, producers, talent representatives, industry leaders, and anyone interested in digging deeper into the ways that storytelling can be used as a powerful toolto promote connection and empathy in our fractured times.”
My job is to help the Academy select the issues to engage, such as social cohesion, climate change, and others. The question is, how do we engage our writers who keep saying, ‘We want to do more about what’s happening in the country but we don’t know what to do.’ ... It felt like the RTT workshop is one core, missing piece, equipping ourselves with much better understanding and openness to inform the stories we tell.”
This workshop was the most expansive, heart-opening, solutions-based afternoon I have ever experienced. It was the first time I have stepped away from ambition and calculation in a professional setting in a long time - and towards MEANING. It was, hands down, THE BEST thing I have done for my brain and soul in ages. I was thrilled to see these lessons unfolding, my approach and other approaches expanding. What a rare and essential encounter. If we are not telling stories that save us and heal us, we are missing an opportunity to become more human. This RTT training reminded me, honestly, why I'm in the arts. Powerful & essential.”
Media can be so powerful as we navigate the polarization in our nation, but we’ve lost nuance in the stories we tell—from film and television to journalism to social media. This workshop has me feeling excited and prepared to imbue my creative work with radical nuance. Often something hard about bridge-building work across divides is that it can be a bit elusive. But I’m leaving this training with actual, concrete tools! Not only in how I develop stories and characters, but also in an almost ‘meta’ way.”
