Welcome to the Home Of Narrative Capital™
We help significant families, individuals and family businesses capture their stories — and turn them into Narrative Capital™ that strengthens identity, learning, and continuity across generations.
Start Here +Narrative is how humans make sense of identity, belonging, and becoming.
Narrative Capital™ is the accumulated value of a family and/or individuals’ shared stories, lived experience, and meaning, held in language, memory, and relationship - enabling identity, trust, and continuity to endure across generations.
Narrative Capital™ is an intangible but compounding asset.
RE-CONNECT exists to cultivate and steward Narrative Capital™ - a home for narrative practice where lived experience is carefully captured, shaped, and carried forward to support continuity over time.
We ensure that what matters most is not lost to speed, silence, or time.
Our Services +Family Story
Shaping a tapestry of lived experience into enduring legacy assets.
Partnering with family offices, multi-generational family businesses and significant families.
RE-MEMBER™ is our signature narrative process that builds the connective tissue between legacy, leadership and long-term impact.
Professionally recorded and edited oral histories
Personalised printed book
RE-UNION™ is the world's first intergenerational storytelling experience designed for family retreats and off-sites - strengthening continuity, trust, and shared meaning across generations.
Filmed Legacy Asset
Life Story
Everyone has a story worth capturing.
We have partnered with family business founders, operators, leaders, elders and women of wealth.
Legacy Capture Formats:
Professionally recorded and edited oral histories
Personalised printed book
What Guides Us +Our work is guided by a simple yet powerful understanding — Narrative is how meaning, identity, and continuity are carried forward over time. Our guiding principles: Language creates possibility. Meaning is made in relationship. Listening is an act of leadership. Identity is shaped through lived experience. Legacy is not what we leave behind - but what is captured, shared, and carried forward.
Our practice is evidence-based. It bridges narrative research and ethical practice in the service of: Narrative Capital™ — strengthening trust and continuity across generations.
Our Impact +Narrative Capital™ strengthens the human infrastructure that holds identity, trust, and continuity over time.
Our projects deliver:
Clear, shared language for who they are and what they stand for
Continuity even as roles, leadership, generations and context change
Lived experience translated into learning, not lost to time
Values and wisdom are carried forward with intention, not assumption
Narrative assets - stories, artefacts, and records people return to over time
Our work supports:
Intergenerational learning and stewardship
Leadership clarity at moments of transition
Trust, cohesion, and shared meaning across family systems
The human and cultural infrastructure alongside wealth, governance, and assets
The result is Narrative Capital™ - an intangible but compounding asset, held in stories, language, and shared understanding, that strengthens identity, belonging, and continuity over time.
Meet the Founder
Nim de Swardt
Our work is led by Nim de Swardt, an Australian Narrative Practitioner, with 20+ years of experience across 140+ bespoke narrative projects for significant families, founders, and values-led leaders.
Our practice draws on the collective expertise of: Narrative practitioners, strategists, psychologists, researchers, social scientists, advisers, human-centred designers, writers, editors, designers and storytellers.
Together, we bring rigour and care to the work of narrative stewardship.
RE-CONNECT operates with discretion, care, and long-term intent - holding lived experience with the respect it deserves, and shaping it into Narrative Capital™ that can be returned to, learned from, and carried forward over time.
Discretion, confidentiality, privacy and data protection are embedded in every aspect of our operations.
“Working with Nim gave us a profound gift - our family’s history, beautifully told and thoughtfully preserved. It changed how we connect as a family forever”
Kind Words From Partners
“Nim has an extraordinary ability to ask powerful questions that gently guided us into deep reflection. Her creative storytelling transformed our scattered memories of building the family business into a beautifully cohesive story. The experience has profoundly reshaped not only how we see ourselves as a family business but also how we onboard new team members and take others on the journey.”
“Nim captured more than just our family’s story - she bridged generations. Through her narrative expertise, our children and grandchildren now understand where they come from, deepening relationships and nurturing bonds we never imagined possible”
“A family that hopes to preserve its wealth over time must learn to keep its stories alive.”
— James E. Hughes
Capturing values, and shared histories to unite and empower families across generations.
Redefining how your family perceives, protects, and passes forward your values and vision.
Stories Forge Connection. Connection Sustains Generational Wealth.
The Family Business Story Project
When a business is passed on without its story, vital context is lost — values fade, culture weakens, and the rising generation struggles to connect.
Storytelling preserves your origin, articulates your values, and becomes a powerful tool for onboarding, alignment, and long-term continuity.
Multi-generational family businesses
Leadership transition, succession, stewardship
Oral History and/or Book
6-12 month project
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