This chapter discusses how policymakers tell stories. Each piece of legislation and policy advice is a narrative in its own right, proposing specific links between ideas, actions, and institutions. However, what stories do they listen to in formulating policy, and can social scientists influence this process? This chapter argues that by constructing stories that ‘resonate’ with policymakers’ everyday experience (based on case studies, action research, appreciative enquiry or ethnography), social scientists are able to facilitate processes of critical reflection and creative thinking.