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Climate
​Storytellers 2023

A program that builds the capacity of those working for climate action to find, make, edit and share their most powerful stories addressing climate change.


Let's go on a storytelling journey together, with Climate Storytellers!



Storytelling is a powerful tool to create awareness of climate action, engage communities and spark action. Are you ready to unlock your climate acton story?

Climate Storytellers is a four-part program that builds your capacity to find, make, edit and share your most powerful stories of the way you and your communities are addressing climate change.

At the end of the program, you will have…

  • Ideas and draft outlines of the most powerful stories you can be telling to engage communities, stakeholders and spark action,
  • Tools and frameworks to craft, produce, edit and share more digital content going forward
  • Practical techniques for capturing interviews, pieces to camera and other footage with smartphones, tablets or cameras
  • Stories crafted from start to finish, in your chosen formats, whether written, visual or digital, with feedback and input from peers and experts
  • Opportunities to share your story through through campaigns within the network and beyond
  • Connection and friendships with other climate activists
  • Access to a community of practice, to continue your storytelling journey

Climate Storytellers 2023

Register your expression of interest

Program outline

FIND Your Story

In this brainstorming workshop, ideate and distill your story concept using the Story Canvas - a tool, based on the popular Business Model Canvas, which helps in thinking strategically and creatively about engaging audiences through compelling stories, whether for blog posts, videos, presentations or beyond.

MAKE Your Story

In this practical workshop, you will learn the skills to create digital content, including videos and imagery, without the need for expensive equipment or a big budget. This is a VERY hands-on workshop where participants will use smartphones, tablets and more to practice filmmaking and photography.

EDIT Your Story

This workshop will demystify the ‘black box’ of video editing and post-production and help you bring your footage together into short, sharp and shareable video formats.
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SHARE Your Story

Identify the individuals, organisations and communities you need to engage to get your story out into the world and create impact. Learn strategies to connect your stories with wider audiences in the online and offline world and build a community behind your cause. We will collectively present and share communication tools and explore how to organise distribution on a shared platform to help the public mobilise for climate action.


After the program:

  • As an exciting incentive, some of the best stories coming out of the workshops will be edited by the team at Digital Storytellers and shared in an international campaign

See what we did in the 2021 Climate Storytellers program

As the world’s attention converged on COP26 in November 2021, Digital Storytellers and CLEAR Environmental created a virtual program to help share the stories of those not in the room, and hosted two sessions at the main stage of the UN Climate Capacity Building Hub at COP26 in Glasgow.

From hands-on workshops to bespoke coaching, a story competition and even a touch of expert editing from the Digital Storytellers team, participants were offered everything they needed to bring their Climate Capacity Building stories to life in short, sharp and shareable ways, ready to present on the global stage at COP26.

Three stories were chosen to bring to life and be screened at COP26 with coaching and feedback through the filming process from Digital Storytellers. Their footage was then edited into short, sharp and shareable films premiered on the world stage.



Let’s change the world together, using the power of storytelling.

More information about the curriculum

FIND your impact story


Before we start making stories, let's develop a plan

In this 90-minute workshop, participants will brainstorm and distill their ideas using the Story Canvas’ - a tool, based on the popular Business Model Canvas, which helps in thinking strategically and creatively about engaging audiences through compelling stories.

This workshop will cover:

●  Developing a compelling story - purpose, key messages, people and places, style and tone, call to action, outcomes.
​ ●  Audience identification and analysis
​ ● Story Structures - hook, jab, beyond the 'Hero's Journey', the Public Narrative and more  

MAKE your impact story

Lights, Camera... ACTION!

In this 90-minute workshop participants will learn the skills to produce powerful content, without the need for expensive equipment or a big budget. This is a VERY hands on workshop where participants will use smartphones, tablets and more to film interviews and cutaways.
​ This workshop will cover:

●  The basics of smartphone filmmaking
​ ●  How to capture interviews and pieces to camera
​ ●  How to 'show' and not just 'tell' your story, through b-roll, cutaways and other dynamic footage.

●  Story planning and the production grid

EDIT your impact story


Simple editing for powerful stories
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This workshop will demystify the ‘black box’ of post-production and help participants bring their footage together into a short, sharp and shareable piece.
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SHARE your impact story

Scaling your story to the world

Participants will access resources to help them identify the individuals, organisations and communities they need to engage to get your story out into the world and create impact. It will equip them with the tools and strategies to connect your stories with their audience in the online and offline world, and help them build a community behind your cause. Also available as a facilitated workshop.

Our Work,

I have no doubt that the team at DS put their heart and soul into every project to ensure that only the highest quality products carry the Digital Storytellers name and brand.”
​-Shirley Chowdhary, CEO, GO Foundation

FAQs

What equipment do participants need?

  • A smartphone or tablet with a camera and (at least) 1 GB of free space 
  • Headphones


The Story Canvas


The Story Canvas is a methodology we have developed in-house, based on the popular Business Model Canvas. It provides a lens for telling stories that resonate with audiences and build into successful campaigns. Today, it is used by changemakers around the world to generate strategy for impact storytelling. We will use the story canvas to confirm a strategic approach to your story. +

The facilitators - Digital Storytellers


Digital Storytellers is a purpose-driven storytelling agency with decades of collective experience working with communities and organisations to craft a narrative for a better future. Our vision is a peaceful and connected world in which people, prosperity and planet are in harmony for future generations. Our mission is to co-create this world through the power of storytelling by both telling, and supporting others to tell and share their stories - through film production, bespoke storytelling workshops, and animation.

Founded in 2013, our non-profit company is made up of film-makers and social entrepreneurs from six countries (we love our team and the various communities in which we work). Through thick and thin, we became a proudly certified B Corp in 2017, as well as a certified social enterprise by Social Traders in 2018.

We have told stories with and run workshops for organisations including UNDP Innovation Labs, the World Health Organisation, Women4Climate, Greenpeace, MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières and Climates.

Learn more www.digitalstorytellers.com.au

You are the Climate Storytellers.

We look forward to telling
​some great stories together!

Natasha Akib, [email protected]