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Project Planning and Development

StoryCenter provides end to end support for your organization in exploring the unique relevance of storytelling practices for your particular sector. Services include:

  • Consultation on approaches to storytelling and narrative practice, including assessment of organizational and community needs, determination of project goals, review of best practices for recruiting diverse storytellers and developing appropriate stories, and guidance on institutional review board (IRB) requirements

  • Design and facilitation of community-driven, culturally appropriate  planning activities

  • Assistance with fundraising through proposal writing and review and the development and coordination of joint donor campaigns

workshop design and facilitation

Custom-designed storytelling workshops and trainings are key to what we do. We offer:

  • Customized digital storytelling, interview-based storytelling, and other storytelling and media-making workshops

  • Story-based reflective leadership retreats, team building workshops, and inquiry sessions

  • Comprehensive guidance on culturally relevant and inclusive participant recruitment and preparation strategies, including strategies to ensure diverse groups of storytellers

  • Up-to-date consultation on appropriate equipment and software

  • Participatory story distribution planning meetings, to engage storytellers and other key stakeholders in the development of strategies for publicly sharing their work to support education, awareness-raising, community mobilization, or policy advocacy objectives

To see our workshops in action, read a case study of our long-term partnership with the Sonke Gender Justice Network in South Africa.

public story sharing activities

We can support you with the planning and facilitation of story sharing sessions in a range of settings:

  • Planning and facilitation of public community story screenings, panels, and media forums

  • Presentation of stories and project outcomes at conferences and symposia

  • Development and training of local speakers’ bureaus, for sharing stories to effect change on a range of issues

  • Design of museum exhibits and educational outreach programming

Traditional and Social Media Design, Production, and Distribution

We provide videography, editing, and digital post-production services, as well as guidance on social media strategies for sharing stories, including the development of story-sharing apps. Services include:

  • Design and implementation of web and social media strategies for sharing stories (including websites, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools)

  • Videography, editing, and digital post-production services (including translation, subtitling, and closed-captioning, where needed)

  • Coordination of broadcast media integration and production (including television and radio broadcast)

  • Development and implementation of innovative distribution methods, such as community kiosks, bus tours with audio stories, posters for story walking "tours", etc.)

  • Design and programming of story-sharing apps

See how our partners at the Hepatitis B Foundation are distributing stories as part of our collaborative #justB Storytelling Project.

publication and Materials development and design

We offer development, design, and production services to support your organization or network in creating story compilations (print and DVD) and story-based curricula, discussion guides, and promotional materials.

  • Writing, design, and production of story-based curricula, discussion guides, and other print materials

  • Design of promotional material, posters, brochures, or other print publications, for story-based projects and programs

  • Design and production of customized story DVDs

  • End to end professional project management of writing, client review, design, and print processes

Organizational Story Sharing and Team Building

We can work with your organization to design storytelling practices that strengthen critical-thinking, communication, reflection, and cultures of dignity and respect.

  • Leadership training through sharing and listening to personal stories

  • Staff development and team building through storytelling

  • Development of thematic storytelling workshops key staff or partners

  • Engagement and stakeholder processes to surface meaningful stories

  • Planning and optimizing the “future stories” of your organization or network

Read about our leadership development work with the Noyce Foundation.

Qualitative Research and Evaluation

With the assistance of our network of academic partners, we offer comprehensive research and evaluation services, including:

  • Assessment of community needs through story sharing activities

  • Mapping and analysis of local issues

  • Evaluation of the impact on storytellers, of sharing personal stories

  • Evaluation of the impact on audiences and communities, of listening to stories

Speaking engagements and keynotes

We are available for a range of speaking engagements, presentations, and keynotes.

  • Dynamic story-based presentation that engage audience members.

  • Present research and panel discussions.

Previous themes have included: Why Storytelling Matters, Storytelling as a Public Health Intervention. Previous sample keynotes include: Public Health in the Rockies, Council on Medical Student Education and Pediatrics, CDC Using Storytelling for Prevention.