Stories For Impact - Programs - Digital Storytellers
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Unlock Your Inner Storyteller

Storytelling training for teams, organisations and communities

We can show your team or organisation how to FIND, MAKE, EDIT and SHARE
amazing and affordable stories in house – using tools and resources you already have.
The rise of digital technology puts the incredible power of storytelling in your hands.

Build your own storytelling capacity. We’ll show you how.

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WHAT’S YOUR IMPACT STORY?

What’s the most powerful social change story you can tell to move your audience’s heads, heart and hands?

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MAKE YOUR IMPACT STORY

Lights, camera, action! Let’s get hands on and produce powerful stories using smartphones, tablets & DSLRs.

EDIT YOUR IMPACT STORY

Learn how to turn your footage into a short, sharp, shareable video. Here’s where your story comes to life.

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SHARE YOUR IMPACT STORY

How do you reach and connect with the people who will create the impact you want with your story?

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Tailored Online Storytelling Program (for teams & communities)

Up-skill your team of impact storytellers – completely online! We’ll custom design an Online Program specifically for your team or organisation’s goals.

  • Learn how to FIND, MAKE, EDIT & SHARE your stories using smartphones and affordable tech.
  • Create original content about your community, initiatives and projects.
  • Professional mentorship
  • Finish the program with high quality original content to tell your organisation’s story.
  • Consultation on narrative ideas, technical guidance, campaign strategy and troubleshooting
  • Great for organisations with distributed teams.
  • Save on travel costs.
  • Build team capacity, walk away with original content, shape internal or external culture, and successfully engage your community.
  • All participants are equipped with skills to continue to make their own stories in the future.

Format & Content:

  • Can be delivered in a variety of formats – from a single session through to a long-term program, facilitated over a number of weeks .
  • Course content (story examples, exercises, narrative structures, shooting techniques) tailored to suit storytelling objectives, context and campaign strategy
  • Interactive and practical – we’ll get you creating high-quality content and stories!
  • One-on-one virtual consultations with Digital Storytellers.
  • Each group will finish the course with a short, sharp and shareable video for your project, cause or organisation.
  • All course participants enjoy 12 months access to online learning materials and resources.
  • Ongoing access to our global-connected online community of Impact Storytellers (closed group).

Chat to us if you would like to combine this program with a face to face workshop for your team or if you’re interested in having this program delivered as a face-to-face program. 

What others have said:

  • I absolutely loved the course! The programme brought different people with common goals together, providing a creative and inspiring setting to extend our storytelling skills. The process from story canvassing to filming and editing was much more straightforward than I anticipated and I found the whole experience very empowering. Kim and Tania were wonderful facilitators and the ongoing support was greatly appreciated and much needed… Seeing our shorts up on the big screen was also a great bonus to the programme!

    - Kat YoungCERES+

  • I couldn't fault this workshop! It was run by experienced, capable facilitators who made everyone feel comfortable - even those who were nervous about the tech side. We got an excellent grounding in all aspects of making a story for impact and as a result our organisation now has a 'Digital Storytelling Team' of very keen volunteers ready to put it all into practice! Thank you for running such an excellent workshop.

    - KateMid Canterbury Timebank+

  • A course where the skills are demonstrated beautifully by teachers as you learn. Adult learning with the true flexibility, support and accessibility that is needed at this time. Second to none content - top quality information and support. All available to me in rural Queensland.

    - KellyRCS Australia+

  • The Stories for Impact course provided a wonderful opportunity to learn how to use mobile technology for the greater good. It stirred my creative juices, excited my want for new ways in which to carry on my work and it added to my skill set dragging me (not too reluctantly) into realising what a great tool this is for storytelling on multiple levels and how it can be used to produce meaningful work that otherwise might never be seen by a wider audience. I am so empowered by the skills I learned in this course.

    - Vivenne BentonThe Australian Living Earth Centre+

  • “The Goldfields Digital Storytellers Program has provided an excellent opportunity for the young people of our Shire to share the stories the stories that matter to them. The team from Digital Storytellers have been ideal mentors; they’ve provided technically savvy and artistic advice while ensuring the young film makers made the films that were important to them."

    - David SuttonPrincipal, Maryborough Education Centre+

  • “The Storytelling Project was a central part of CEHL’s celebration of the 30 years of co-operative housing program (2016). The project captured co-op members’ personal stories of living and working in co-operative housing."

    - Sandra Castro Communications Manager, Common Equity Housing Ltd+

  • “The video story that was developed during the workshop is a powerful piece of digital storytelling featuring African young women speaking to other young women to encourage them to speak up, know they are not alone and offer peer education and relevant information to seek assistance when they need it"

    - An extract from the Zig Zag Young Women’s Resource CentreProject Report, June 2017+

  • “I enjoyed seeing the end results of everyone’s work (the videos we all made were excellent) and how practical and interactive the course was. I was most surprised that a total newbie like me could actually come away after 2 days with an actual clip that’s actually half-decent and feel totally inspired to create some more!”

    - PennyPathfinders+

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