This webinar offers an introduction to the use of story in our personal and professional lives, and the transformative potential of story for individuals, organizations, and communities. Requisite introduction for  two day Story Facilitation workshops.

This webinar includes

• A presentation about the practice and potential of Story Facilitation

• Discussion of individual story development

• An introduction to group listening process

• Facilitation techniques to support creative exploration

Who should attend

Any one interested in the use of story in their personal or professional lives, especially those who are interested in further StoryCenter workshops and facilitation training.This webinar begins at 9am Pacific Time/12pm Eastern Time.

Registration closes the week prior, or when the webinar is at capacity. For any questions, email us here.

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.

Please contact us if you’re interested in arranging a customized public health storytelling webinar for your organization.

The Role of Digital Storytelling in Public Health

Storytelling can be a powerful, multi-dimensional tool for community-based public health program enhancement, strategic communication, and advocacy.

For the past 20 years, StoryCenter has been supporting researchers, educators, social justice organizers, and advocates in understanding how first person narrative and participatory digital media production can advance a broad range of public health goals. Please join us for this overview of our core methods and an exploration of how narrative can enhance your public health efforts.

This webinar begins at 10am Pacific Time/ 1pm Eastern Time.

Registration closes the week prior or when the webinar is at capacity. For any questions, please email us here.

Honest and emotionally compelling personal stories can enhance nursing education and practice and address compassion fatigue. In this free webinar, we'll share the history of our collaborative Nurstory project and examples of how the Nurstory process and products can be used in teaching and learning. The webinar will also focus on:

1)  Professionalism and the attendant values of altruism, autonomy, integrity, and social justice, as fundamental to the discipline of nursing.

2) Synthesizing concepts, including the psycho-social dimensions of nursing and the importance of cultural diversity in the field.

3) Health care advocacy (which must begin by understanding perspectives other than your own).

Nurstory is supporting:

• Reflective Practice: Students reflect on a personal story, promoting dialogue, the expression of counter narratives, and exchange and inquiry.

• Student Centered Teaching and Learning: Student visibility and voice are increased through reflective practice and sensitivity to diverse perspectives. 

• Inter-professional Collaboration: Student digital stories are shared across educational disciplines and with other health profession students.

• Ethics: The digital storytelling process supports an examination of  nursing ethics and professional practice.

• Teach and Learn Dialogue versus Discussion: Students practice listening, presence, the synthesis of perspectives, and the telling of more stories.

• Influence Policy/Nurse Activism: Participants can develop stories that may be used to influence policymakers. 

• Research: We undertake thematic analysis across stories, to better understand the phenomenon of interest.

• Self-Care: Students learn to express themselves, for better understanding and contributing to shared perspectives.

Please join us for an introduction to current thinking about strategies and platforms for creating and utilizing first-person stories of nursing experience.

This webinar meets at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST for one hour.

Registration closes the week prior, or when the webinar is at capacity. For questions, please contact us here.

Museums are brimming with stories—stories of community, stories of the past and present, and stories of how people see the world and their place in it. Identifying these stories isn’t difficult, but learning to tell them in an engaging and inclusive way can be challenging. This free webinar highlights a myriad of ways that digital storytelling, podcasting, and other story work can add often- unheard voices and perspectives to the larger story, and help attract both old and new audiences into museum or community spaces.

This webinar includes

• An overview of StoryCenter’s history and digital storytelling methodology

• An introduction to digital storytelling as a process for combining lived experience, language, and visual treatments

• A discussion of other StoryCenter work designed to engage specific–often marginalized– individuals and communities

• Examples of stories created in and for museums and public spaces

• A discussion about how digital storytelling is being used in museums, both internally, for staff development, and programmatically, to share personal experiences that together tell a larger story about art, history, science, or culture

• A review of how storytelling can enhance photograph, manuscript, material culture, and digital collections, create exhibit content, and engage communities

Who should attend

Museum and community arts organization personnel, including museum educators, exhibit designers, curators, librarians, photographers, and marketing staff; as well as anyone who is interested in learning more about audience engagement, participation, and community involvement.This workshop begins at 12 noon Pacific Time / 1 pm Mountain Time / 3pm Eastern Time.

Registration closes the week prior, or when the webinar is at capacity. For questions, please email Joe Lambert here.

This workshop begins at 10am Pacific Time/ 1pm Eastern Time.

Registration closes the week prior, or when the webinar is at capacity.

This webinar begins at 9am Pacific Time/ 12pm Eastern Time.

Registration closes the week prior or when the webinar is at capacity. For any questions, please email us here.

This workshop begins at 10am Pacific Time / 11am Mountain Time / 1pm Eastern Time.

Registration closes the week prior, or when the webinar is at capacity. For questions, please contact us here.