In September 2022, we did a creative session at the BAICE 2022 conference held in Edinburgh, UK. With an amazing turnout of attendees who seemed happy to engage with creative activities, it was a memorable event. The session featured fun activities that also conveyed the ‘messiness ‘ of the collective storytelling research process that we have adopted in Ibali. In the session, we all also reflected on important issues around ethics and the practicalities of working as an international collective of storytelling researchers.