Launch the UNSCRIPTED Campaign
Looking for a creative way to engage men? This campaign:
✅ Invites them in with curiosity
✅ Centers their experiences through storytelling
✅ Sparks conversations around mental health, dating, vulnerability, sex, and violence
✅ Unpacks the scripts men are taught from a young age
What makes this campaign unique?
This campaign meets the moment, one where many young men are struggling with connection and longing to feel seen. In fact, 65% of young men say “no one really knows me.” At the same time, they’re navigating digital influences that often deepen that sense of isolation.
Unscripted offers an alternative: a space for authenticity, belonging, community, and a call to leadership.
It builds a new, shared language around manhood. Unscripted men are free to be themselves. They are no longer scripted – constrained by the rigid rules someone else wrote for them.
This campaign strives to inspire cultural shifts on your campus so when you look around, you see:
A community of men who are connected to each other.
A community of men who are empowered in who they are.
A community of men who lead with compassion.
A community of men who are ready to end violence.
A community of men who are Unscripted.
How can I launch this campaign?
We created an entire toolkit for you, designed to make it as easy as possible! It includes:
- Customizable campaign posters to spark curiosity
- Fun and creative tabling materials to draw people in
- Detailed templates for hosting Unscripted events to build community and connection, from story slams to art installations
- Instructions on how to use the toolkit materials
The toolkit will support you in encouraging honest conversations about manhood, collecting and sharing authentic student stories, and creating environments where connection and leadership can grow.
Toolkit Materials
Inspire your community to ditch the script.
Scroll down to download!
Unscripted Event Templates
Customize Unscripted events for your campus.
- 9 Sample Events
- Leverage Storytelling Approaches
- Questions, Activities, Media, and More
Stickers
Rep the message
- 9 designs
- Various sizes
- Water-proof vinyl
- Bulk order 100 or 300
Campaign Posters
Spark curiosity
- 8.5″ x 11″
- 6 text-only posters (dark mode & light mode)
- 6 picture-inclusive posters
- Customizable
Who created the campaign?
Unscripted is the signature national campaign of CATAPULT: Campus Action for Healthy Manhood, an initiative by Futures Without Violence designed to grow the leadership of college men to end violence through care, connection, and accountability.
We created Unscripted to explore how expectations around manhood shape our relationships, our mental health, and our campus communities, and ask whether these “scripts” help us or hold us back.
If you’re looking for additional strategies and materials to engage men, check out our other CATAPULT resources.
Follow, Join the Conversation, and Share Your Campus Photos!
Stay up to date with the campaign by following Unscripted on social media. Share your campus campaign stories, photos, and reflections with #DitchTheScript and connect with campuses nationwide who are part of the movement.
Have questions or want to get involved? We’d love to hear from you!
📧 EngagingMen@FuturesWithoutViolence.org
The signature national campaign of CATAPULT: Campus Action for Healthy Manhood, an initiative by Futures Without Violence