Facilitator in Training

The Facilitator in Training (FIT) workshop has been designed for individuals who are interested in acquiring skills for assisting at or leading digital storytelling workshops. The FIT offers in-depth skills assessment and focused opportunities for participants to work on developing their capabilities in chosen content areas (story content, visual design, facilitation of individual and group processes, and technical). We at the Center feel that considerable expertise across each of these content areas is necessary to successfully guide people through the process of creating digital stories. While attending a FIT will advance participants’ learning, they are unlikely to leave the workshop feeling fully prepared to facilitate workshops on their own. We therefore offer a variety of follow-up opportunities for FIT participants to collaborate with us on the development of their projects, as a way of providing ongoing mentoring, support, and learning in the field.

Continuing Education Credits available through Dominican University of California (two CEUs) or University of Colorado. This workshop also counts towards the requirements for the Digital Storytelling Certificate.

Prerequisite for FIT: Completion of a CDS 3-day Digital Storytelling Workshop either a Standard Workshop or Educator Workshop. For more information please email workshop@storycenter.org.
You cannot take the 3-day workshop and the 5-day FIT at the same time. FIT facilitators-in-training run a 3-day workshop as part of their training, and thus cannot be a teacher and a student of the workshop that they are teaching at the same time.

Facilitator Intensive Training Schedule:

Workshop Locations:
Berkeley, CA| Lyons, CO

Dates and locations for our workshops are updated on a regular basis. Please email workshop@storycenter.org for further information.

Please confirm registration prior to making airplane reservations. If you are coming from out of town, you will need to arrange your own lodging.

(Note: Workshop dates are subject to change.)

Berkeley, California
Location: The Center for Digital Storytelling
1803 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94709
Lead Facilitator: Center for Digital Storytelling Staff
FIT Workshops in Berkeley take place Monday-Friday, from 9am-5pm unless noted otherwise.

2012 dates:

March 19-23
October 29-November 2

(Please Note: FIT workshops in Berkeley include an open Standard workshop, which trainees will facilitate with guidance from CDS staff.)

Please click here to register for a workshop.
Please email workshop@storycenter.org for more information and future FIT dates in Berkeley.

Lyons, Colorado
Location: Stonebridge Farm
5169 Ute Highway, Longmont, Colorado 80503 (about an hour and 15 minutes from Downtown Denver)
Lead Facilitator: Daniel Weinshenker, Rocky Mountain/Midwest Region Director
FIT workshops in Colorado take place Monday-Friday, from 9am-5pm, unless noted otherwise.

2012 dates:

June 11-15 (tentative, dates subject to change)
August 6-10 (tentative, dates subject to change)

(Please Note: FIT workshops in Lyons include an open Standard workshop, which trainees will facilitate with guidance from CDS staff.)

Please click here to register for a workshop.
Please email workshop@storycenter.org for more information and future FIT dates in Colorado.