| Workshop Details | |
|---|---|
| Level | Intermediate/Advanced |
| Prerequisite | Online Digital Storytelling Workshop, In-Person Digital Storytelling Workshop or the equivalent. Email workshop@storycenter.org with questions. |
| Length | 2 hours weekly, for 10 weeks |
| Time | Mondays from Jan 5 to Mar 23, 11am to 1pm Pacific. There will be no session on Jan 19 or Feb 16. |
| Location | Online |
| Capacity | 20 |
| Instructors | Joe Lambert, Brooke Hessler and/or Andrea Spagat |
| Recommended Textbook | Digital Storytelling: Story Work for Urgent Times, Lambert-Hessler, 2020 |
| Tuition | $1000 |
This workshop is designed for individuals who are interested in developing their digital storytelling facilitation skills and have completed a StoryCenter workshop in which they create a digital story, or they have completed a digital story in a workshop that employs the StoryCenter approach.
We will focus on the skills we feel are most essential for facilitating grounded, connected, and joyful workshops. As with all StoryCenter workshops, this one relies on hands-on experiences to ground learning.
Participants will review and apply StoryCenter’s core principles, curricula, and teaching approaches. Some topics covered in the course include the art of story circle facilitation, utilizing the Seven Steps of Digital Storytelling Framework to support narrative development, approaches to visual and sound design, the StoryCenter approach to teaching technology and coaching voiceovers, and the ethics of digital storytelling. You will find a complete list of topics below. Participants will have the opportunity to create two digital stories during the 10 meetings of the workshop in order to sharpen their script writing and video editing skills.
We recommend the text Digital Storytelling: Story Work for Urgent Times to accompany the workshop.
This workshop requires attendance at ten online sessions on Mondays, from January 5 through March 23, 2026. Each session is two hours and begins at 11am Pacific Time/ 2pm Eastern Time.
There will be no session on Monday, January 19, 2026, or Monday, February 16, 2026.
Registration closes when the workshop is at capacity.
THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDES
History and Overview: What Makes a Digital Story; the Seven Steps
Digital Storytelling Skill Assessment and Goals
Exploring the Digital Story as a Narrative Art Form
Story Circle Unpacked Practicum
Prompts and Processes: Bringing Participants and Story Work Methods, into Your Learning Environment
Coaching and Recording Voiceovers
Seeing Your Story: Image-Based Approaches to Digital Storytelling
Designing in Digital: Assembling and Refining in the Digital Story Form
Theory and Practice in Video Editing and Sound Design
Sharing Your Story: Distribution, Ethics, and the Politics of Engagement
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is aimed at professionals seeking to make digital storytelling and story work a focus of their educational, organizing, and advocacy efforts. The series of sessions will help participants prepare to implement their own workshops and digital storytelling projects.
SPECIAL NOTES
The course does not provide CEUs or formal credentialing. Upon completion, you will receive a certificate of participation and join a growing international community of digital storytelling practitioners.
