Share a story
build community - unlock your voice
Our workshops are primarily interactive,
hands-on, production experiences.
community Building
workshops
Foster reflection, connection,
creativity, and Joy
Custom services
How organizations and institutions can use story work
Stories for research, education, public health, training and advocacy, and for building cultures of belonging.
We design and implement projects large and small.
Expert facilitators
provide support for each storyteller to connect with a story that they want to share and for all workshop participants to support one another.
All storytellers receive Individualized feedback for shaping a narrative, visual design, and video editing.
Watch design examples Created in our workshops
Upcoming In-Person & Online Workshops & Webinars
This is the online version of the original in-person digital storytelling workshop that has supported tens of thousands of storytellers as they identify a personal experience to share, develop it into a script, and edit it into a video. Over the course of five weeks, guided by experienced StoryCenter facilitators, you will craft and produce a two to four-minute digital story based on a 300-word narration script.
Podcast professionals Bojan Furst and Michelle Dahlenburg will take you through an 6 week journey into podcasting. You’ll find a clear, distinctive voice for your podcast, within a storytelling framework. After discussions of podcast theory and several hands-on tutorials, you will finish the course by constructing a polished podcast segment.
Storytelling can be a valuable tool for public health researchers and practitioners. Our story facilitation methods support local community members in sharing first-person narratives and turning them into videos that can be used for training, community mobilization, advocacy, and more. This free, one-hour webinars offer participants a broad introduction to our work in public health, and an understanding of how our public health partnerships work.
Storytelling can be a valuable tool for students and educators. Our story facilitation methods support classrooms in building community and contextualizing information for deeper learning. This free, one-hour webinar offer participants a broad introduction to our work and it’s application in middle - college level education.
Geo-locate stories about place, change, and resistance. In this course, participants will reflect on changes in their immediate communities to create stories using app-based photography and video on iOS and Android devices, edit in WeVideo, and explore the ArcGIS StoryMaps and Google Maps softwares to create multi-point story map documentary projects.
How can participatory research approaches leverage the purpose and power of digital storytelling to more meaningfully center the lived experiences of research participants and impacted community members? This workshop offering draws on both popular education and participatory research frameworks to explore how digital storytelling can support with critically reflecting on and sharing personal narratives as a valuable form of knowledge throughout the research process.
This is the online version of the original in-person digital storytelling workshop that has supported tens of thousands of storytellers as they identify a personal experience to share, develop it into a script, and edit it into a video. Over the course of five weeks, guided by experienced StoryCenter facilitators, you will craft and produce a two to four-minute digital story based on a 300-word narration script.
Explore StoryCenter’s approach to digital storytelling and participatory media. Learn the foundations of our internationally recognized method, including the Seven Steps storytelling framework. Discover how digital storytelling supports advocacy, education, public health, community engagement, and the preservation of cultural knowledge through real-world examples.
Certain stories in our lives deserve frequent revisiting. Stories that hold a particular key to our understanding of ourselves, and the world around us. Based on the book, Signpost Stories, published in 2023, Bermudan and Caribbean-based author and educator, Janet Ferguson, and StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert will lead you through a series of writing efforts that will evolve into 3-4 Digital Stories during the 10 sessions of the five week workshop.
This is the online version of the original in-person digital storytelling workshop that has supported tens of thousands of storytellers as they identify a personal experience to share, develop it into a script, and edit it into a video. Over the course of five weeks, guided by experienced StoryCenter facilitators, you will craft and produce a two to four-minute digital story based on a 300-word narration script.
Experience StoryCenter’s globally recognized workshop approach for developing personal narratives, building community and honoring your life experience. Over the course of TWO weeks, guided by experienced StoryCenter facilitators, you will craft and produce a two- to four-minute digital story based on a 300-word narration script. This workshop includes story sharing activities, support for writing and recording a script, access to our video editing platform, and easy-to-follow instructions for creating a beautiful short video.
In this experiential workshop, 6th to 12th-grade teachers explore StoryCenter’s longstanding practice of narrative and participatory media-making as an engaging form of knowledge-building and a rich way for students to demonstrate understanding. StoryCenter’s method centers community-building, structured collaboration, and reflection on each storyteller's personal connection to a variety of content areas.
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