When Things Change
Life changes in many ways.
Memory shifts. Roles change. A diagnosis arrives. A loved one retires and loses their sense of purpose. A caregiver loses themselves in the work of caring. A family finds it harder to stay close across distance, busyness, or grief.
When this happens, conversations often narrow to symptoms, schedules, and safety. What can quietly fade is something more personal. The sense of who someone has been. The dignity of still being known. The feeling that the person in front of you — and the person you have always been — still matters.
SenStoria works in that space.
We design ways for families, individuals, and care systems to remember together, so that who someone is does not get lost as life changes.
Memory Experience Design
Memory Experience Design is the practice of designing conditions — language, ritual, sensory environment, relational practice — that keep identity and meaning visible across change.
It draws on memory science, narrative psychology, neuroaesthetics, media psychology, and the living traditions of reminiscence and story. It is applied across families, care organizations, and cultural spaces.
The result is not a program or a product. It is a shift in how an organization, a family, or a community holds the people in its care.
What We Design
Staying Recognizable
Practices that help families, individuals, and care systems preserve dignity and keep people visible to one another as memory and roles shift. Because recognizability is not just a feeling — it is the foundation of relational care.
Shared Language for Change
Frameworks that give families and care teams the words to speak about cognitive, identity, and role change clearly — without reducing the person to their limitations. When language is right, care becomes more human.
Sensory Anchor Practices
Objects, rituals, environments, and practices that help identity stay present in everyday life — because the body and the senses remember what words sometimes cannot hold.
Remembering TogetherÂ
Our Flagship ExperienceÂ
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 guided experience that helps families capture, honor, and carry forward the stories, values, and identity of the people they love before urgency arrives.
Grounded in reminiscence therapy and narrative psychology, it is more than a legacy record. It is a structured practice of being present to one another. Of saying: your life matters. Your story deserves to be held.
What you receive:
•  A beautifully designed digital guide structured across six meaningful chapters
•  A companion PDF to print, share, and hold alongside a loved one
•  Facilitation guidance so the experience feels like a conversation, not a task
•  Prompts designed to draw out meaning, not just memory
Designed for individuals and families who want to start before change arrives, and for those who are already in the middle of it. Remembering Together is the place to begin.
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Remembering Together
Digital Experience
A self-guided relational experience for families and individuals who want to begin preserving story, identity, and meaning at their own pace, before change feels urgent.
Guided Remembering
Flagship Facilitated Experience
A high-touch, facilitated process for families navigating early memory change or significant life transition. This is not therapy alone, nor memoir writing, nor crisis management. It is relational continuity design — helping families develop the shared language, practices, and anchors that keep a person fully present in the lives of those who love them.
Consulting & Advisory
Organizations & Care Systems
Systems-level experience design for care organizations, healthcare systems, and cultural institutions. We redesign care environments, develop shared language frameworks, train care teams in dignity-centered relational practice, and build the organizational infrastructure that keeps identity and meaning visible at scale. Working across North America and Europe.
Workshops & Speaking
Communities & Organizations
Interactive programs for professional communities, care teams, cultural organizations, and public audiences. Topics range from designing relational continuity in memory care to shared language frameworks for dignity-centered practice, caregiver identity and wellbeing, and the emerging field of Memory Experience Design.
Cultural & Immersive Experiences
Public & Participatory Work
Public-facing, participatory explorations of memory, identity, and intergenerational connection. Installations, performance collaborations, and community experiences that invite people to encounter the themes of Memory Experience Design in unexpected, embodied ways.
Begin HereÂ
Whether you are a family wanting to preserve a story before it fades. A care organization redesigning how you hold the people in your care. A cultural institution exploring what it means to keep memory visible across generations. Or simply someone who senses that something important deserves more attention than daily life allows.
We begin with a conversation.
