Stories for Impact 2026

Workshops & Capacity Building Programs

Thank you for this opportunity.

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 supporting others to tell and share their stories.

Founded in 2013, our non-profit company is made up of film-makers and social entrepreneurs from six countries. We became a proudly certified B Corp in 2017, as well as a certified social enterprise by Social Traders in 2018.

We are honoured to help you scale your positive impact through storytelling. Given the times in which we live, our world demands no less of us.

Thank you, the team at Digital Storytellers.

About Stories for Impact

Digital storytelling gives organisations and communities a powerful way to explore, reflect on and share the change they are creating in the world. When people are supported to tell their own stories, they build stronger connections with audiences, communicate their impact more clearly, attract investment, and elevate the voices and perspectives that matter most.

Stories for Impact brings together Digital Storytellers’ capacity-building workshops and programs, designed to empower participants to share their impact stories through video and other accessible formats such as podcasts. Using a modular approach, the program guides participants through how to FIND, MAKE, EDIT and SHARE compelling stories, while building confidence, practical skills and creative agency.

At its core, Stories for Impact strengthens participants’ ability to communicate lived experience, insight and impact in ways that can drive real change.

Stories for Impact is highly adaptable and can be shaped to suit different goals:

It can be delivered purely as a capacity-building experience, focused on developing storytelling skills and confidence.
Alternatively, participants can also work on real stories and walk out of the program with a story to share with the public.
For organisations seeking more polished videos or higher-quality outputs, the program can be super-charged through collaboration with Digital Storytellers’ professional production team, blending community-created stories with expert filmmaking and editing.
It is suitable for all levels, from beginner to experienced storytellers and for all ages, having catered to participants from 6 to 86 years old.
We have a variety of programs suitable for different roles - from community members, community engagement officers to communications/marketing upskilling.

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

Learning modules

These modules form the basis of our workshops, but are adapted and tailored for different groups and purposes.

Find Your Story

This workshop explores:

What makes a great impact story (including examples)
The Story Canvas - including audience, purpose, key messages, style and tone, people and places, campaign and outcomes
Narrative structures for impact stories
Ethics of digital storytelling

Make Your Story

This workshop explores

How to gather good quality footage and audio using your smartphone, tablet or camera
Filming a piece to camera', interviews and dynamic footage, including framing and conduct
Voiceovers
Using royalty-free stock footage, photos and audio

Edit Your Story

This workshop explores:

Editing platforms for your chosen medium, in smartphones, tablets and computers
Simple and easy-to-follow editing workflows
Royalty-free music, footage and other collateral
Captions and accessibility

Share Your Story

● Identifying the best channels for your content

● Best practices for sharing and engagement

● Tools for sharing and insights

Workshop and Program Formats

Our training programs can take all sorts of exciting shapes to bring together your community.

From one-hour introductions to three-month long programs, online sessions and face-to-face engagements, our workshops and programs can be tailored to a variety of formats and delivery modes.

Here are a few ideas:

One hour or half-day introductory workshop: Want your team or community to be inspired by the power of storytelling and enthusiastic to learn more? A short workshop is the perfect way to get hands-on, learn some best practice and see what's possible.
Two-day program: A two day process where participants learn how to find, make, edit and share their own stories, making a film, podcast or other output in the process.
Bootcamp: A 3-5 day bootcamp will see storytellers create stories, immerse themselves in the skills and build connection with each other, establishing a community of practice and collaboration.
Four to six week online program: Build your storytelling capacity with a custom designed online program. It consists of hands-on online weekly workshops, on-a large suite of video and written tutorials, and a growing base of tools and resources.
Challenge: An exciting time-bound storytelling competition including a screening event with awards and online voting.
Retreat or conference: Build a storytelling session into your next retreat or conference.

Budgets

As a social enterprise and non-profit organisation, we recognise that storytelling is a big investment for you; and that you'll be placing your trust in us. Rest assured that we don't take that lightly.

This is a guideline on estimated investment for our our most popular workshop and program formats. Reach out to us for a more tailored quote or customised delivery format .

Description	Item	Quantity	Price
3-4 Hour Introductory Workshop Overview: A practical rapid-fire workshop to give your team or community an overview of the best practices for brainstorm, filming, recording and sharing impactful stories. Participants will leave inspired by what's possible and with basic tools and skills to get started. Deliverables • 1 x 3 -4 hour workshop • 2 x facilitators from Digital Storytellers • Slides shared with participants • Up to 30 participants *Excludes travel costs	$2,750.00
1-Day Workshop Overview A one-day workshop where your team/community will get hands-on and immersive with 2-3 modules (FIND/MAKE/EDIT/SHARE), with the option to create and screen practice stories within the day. Deliverables • 1 x full-day workshop • 2 x facilitators from Digital Storytellers • Slides shared with participants • Up to 20 participants *Excludes travel costs	$4,300.00
2-Day Workshop Overview A two-day hands-on workshop to train your team/ community through the process of how to find, make, edit and share powerful impact stories. All participants will create a story to be screened or shared at the conclusion of the workshops. delivered over consecutive days or up to two weeks apart. Day 1 & 2 can be spread 2-3 weeks apart to allow participants to gather other footage, audio and images to edit on Day 2. Deliverables • 2 x full-day workshop • 2 x facilitators from Digital Storytellers • Slides shared with participants • Up to 20 participants *Excludes travel costs	$7,100.00
Tailored proposals If you're interested in having a smaller group, longer engagement or more bespoke face-to-face training program, reach out to us at workshops@digitalstorytellers.com.au

Description	Item	Quantity	Price
2 Hour Introductory Online Workshop Overview: A practical rapid-fire workshop to give your team or community an overview of the best practices for brainstorm, filming, editing and sharing impactful stories. Participants will leave inspired by what's possible and with basic tools and skills to get started. Deliverables: • 1 x 2 hour online workshop • Up to 30 participants • Slides and webinar recording shared with participants	$1,950.00
4-Week Workshop Series (1-2 hours per week) Overview This series of practical and participatory workshops will introduce participants to the process of finding, capturing, editing and sharing impact stories. Workshops will focus on providing ‘how-to’ guidance, connecting participants, sharing learnings with each other and deep-dive Q&As While creating a completed story is encouraged, it is not compulsory. Participants will be encouraged to share and ask for feedback during workshops, but will not receive feedback from Digital Storytellers outside of workshops. Deliverables • A series of 4 webinars (1-2 hours each) to take participants through the process of how to FIND, MAKE, EDIT & SHARE stories. • Slides and webinar recordings shared with participants for ongoing access • Up to 20 participants • Access to Stories for Impact Online Course	$6,800.00
6-Week Online Storytelling Program (1-2 hours per week plus additional support) Overview Our fully-tailored, private Online Storytelling Program is designed to specifically meet your community’s storytelling needs by guiding them through a facilitated 6-week story-creation and skills-building process. Participants will navigate through the course with accountability, receive individual support and create a story from start to finish. At the end of the program they will have a polished story, ready to share with the public Deliverables • 6 x weekly webinars to guide participants through their storytelling journey, including clarification of weekly tasks, Q&A, troubleshooting, sharing participant insights and group feedback • Access to a private online learning portal with tailored content, including video examples and storytelling frameworks appropriate for your community/team • Submission of weekly tasks, with support and feedback from facilitators • 1:1 consultation also available Case studies: - Merri-Bek Council Sustainability Storytellers - SENVIC - Voices of Victoria Leading Through Lockdown - Great Barrier Reef Foundation - Citizen Science Storytellers	$10,000.00
Tailored proposals If you're interested in having a smaller group, longer engagement or more bespoke online training program, reach out to us at workshops@digitalstorytellers.com.au u

Our Work

UNDP Somalia - Somali Storytellers

Writing a new narrative for Somali through the power of community storytelling

Overview: Individual stories are powerful tools for shifting the minds, hearts and actions of audiences. But when they form part of a greater narrative of change, they can help drive movements of systemic societal change.

This was the ethos behind the Somali Storytellers bootcamp, which we ran in partnership with UNDP Somalia Accelerator Lab, alongside Somali-American filmmaker Abdisalam Aato and researchers from the Queensland University of Technology. The bootcamp launched Somalia’s first digital storytelling collective, Somali Storytellers, to write a new story for the future of Somalia by amplifying the stories of locally-driven solutions to development challenges.

Worked with UNDP Accelerator Labs in Somalia to build a collective of young storytellers with skills to create powerful and rapid-response digital content around key issues in the region including Gender Based Violence, Local Solutions and Health.
Deliverables: 5-day bootcamp, 6-week virtual mentorship, online training platform
Medium Article: Somali Storytellers Helping to Spread the Word Not the Virus

SENVIC (Social Enterprise Network of Victoria)

Strengthening networks and building a community of practice

In the midst of 2020, and during one of the longest lockdowns in the world, the Social Enterprise Network of Victoria (SENVIC) initiated a program to bring the sector together from across the state under a shared vision and purpose to tell their stories.

Led by CEO, Nick Verginis, and supported by the Victorian Government, SENVIC needed to:

Find a way to make the diversity and innovation of social enterprise sector visible during a time when brick and mortar stores were closed and help activate the enterprises trying to quickly ‘pivot’ online;
Nurture and deepen the connection across the social enterprise community to overcome the isolation of lockdown, which cannot be underestimated;
Increase the collective video storytelling skills of the sector through a shared learning experience no matter their level of video and editing skills; and
Develop a bank of ‘story artefacts’ or films that would help to showcase their work and create a rallying cry for local communities to support these enterprises doing such important work.

Our team created and facilitated a six-week online learning program for SENVIC that included practical and tactical weekly workshops, as well as virtual consultations with each team or organisation that was part of the program. They also set about documenting the process and producing a vision story for SENVIC to be used for promotional and community-building purposes once the program was complete.

“I loved it. I loved what we produced. I think it should be an essential course for every start up.” – Andrea, Gippsland Social Enterprise Collective

What emerged from the program was not only the 13 x 2-minute stories that each of the enterprises created, but an incredible transformation and connection between the participants. The chance to bring together a geographically isolated and socially distanced community of social enterprises from across the state to articulate strong stories of hope made this one of the most pride-filling projects we’ve had the chance to be part of at Digital Storytellers. And we’re thrilled with the way that participants went about using their new ‘story artefacts’ through newsletters and social media.

Video: MOSAIK Experiences

ANROWS (Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety)

Story as a process for reflecting on and understanding impact

Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety is an independent, not-for-profit research organisation established to produce evidence to support the reduction of violence against women and their children. ANROWS supports 24 projects in Action Research in CALD communities and engaged Digital Storytellers to support these organisations to use story to reflect on the effectiveness of their programs and share their findings. Digital Storytellers and ANROWS, jointly developed the program, with the tremendous investigative and ethical rigour that is elemental to ANROWS’ work.

ANROWS-supported projects deal with some of the most sensitive subject matters in some of the most vulnerable communities throughout the whole of Australia. Supporting the storytellers and their communities was a highly process-oriented journey. We put great care into developing the framing and conducting the process.

The participating organisations were guided through the process of

exploring their impact by engaging and listening to the stories of stakeholders in the communities they serve
refining the learnings and impact story of their programs into a compelling narrative, using the Story Canvas
capturing voices and video in sensitive ways, including processes for protecting safety and preserving anonymity, and culturally safe practices for content creation
editing on smartphones and computers
Finally, the Digital Storytellers team, collected and created closed captions for the stories before delivering them to ANROWS, who created this page showcasing all the wonderful stories along with their project findings. https://www.anrows.org.au/research-program/culturally-and-linguistically-diverse-projects-with-action-research/cald-par-digital-stories/

Read the full case study on our portfolio.

Video: "George St Neighbourhood Club - CALD Women's Club Story"

The (re)Generation Project Macquarie University

The (re)Generation Project is a Macquarie University research project, aiming to uncover what inspires young people to engage with nature. Part of the research process was to ask 22 to tell stories, through film, about what they believe would inspire their peers to adventure into that natural world.

Digital Storytellers ran a storytelling program over 6 weeks to teach the participants how to FIND, MAKE & EDIT their stories. We also provided extensive virtual support between the workshops to assist the participants with narrative development, production planning and post-production.

Learn more about our Stories For Impact storytelling workshops, where we train you or your students to make your own films using available technology such as mobile phones.

Testimonials

Kat Young,
CERES, The Sustainability Hub
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I absolutely loved the course! The programme brought different people with common goals together, providing a creative and inspiring setting to extend our storytelling skills. The process from story canvassing to filming and editing was much more straightforward than I anticipated and I found the whole experience very empowering. Kim and Tania were wonderful facilitators and the ongoing support was greatly appreciated and much needed… Seeing our shorts up on the big screen was also a great bonus to the programme!

Sophie Lamond,
Fair Food Challenge
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It was such a good experience to participate in the Digital Storytellers workshop – I walked into the room not having a clue how to put together a video and by the end of the weekend felt I had a grasp on a really useful new skill. We’ve made a couple of videos for our organisation and are already starting to see how much difference its making to our comms. Doing the program through the Environmental Film Festival meant we got the chance to meet some amazing young change makers and we’re looking forward to see what all the other participants have been up to.

David Sutton, Principal
Maryborough Education Centre
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The Goldfields Digital Storytellers Program has provided an excellent opportunity for the young people of our Shire to share the stories the stories that matter to them. The young film-makers have been connected with the experts from Digital Storytellers who have taught them progressive film-making techniques and mentored them in their creative journey. I have seen the confidence of the young film-makers grow apace with the development of their technical abilities.
The team from Digital Storytellers have been ideal mentors; they’ve provided technically savvy and artistic advice while ensuring the young film makers made the films that were important to them. Digital Storytellers have been a well organised team who have placed a strong emphasis on collaboration through deep listening and respect. It has been a pleasure to be involved in the program and the standard of the finished films is testimony to the quality of the project.

Our Team

We love our team!

Our creative team has been organically sourced from the best changemaking communities in Sydney. For eight years we've been making content that drives positive impact and we've staked our business and identity on this purpose.

Why does this mean to you? You'll benefit from working with a trusted collective people who are experts in their own fields and passionate changemakers in their own right.

We believe that because of our expertise, teamwork and creativity, you'll receive a higher quality result for your project than any one individual can achieve alone. As a business we work hard to ensure we have a positive and evolving culture, and we believe that shines through in the passion and dedication we bring to our projects.

Learn more about the backgrounds of our team and the communities we play in at our website.

Our Working Agreements

Before we get started..

.. let's discuss some working agreements.

The best relationships start on the right foot with clear agreements for working together. Therefore, please take the time to look over and acknowledge our Terms and Conditions by opening up the click box below.

By accepting these terms, we safely agree to the boundaries by which we can work together, thus providing clarity for our working relationship. This gives you transparency as to our commitment to your work, and helps us deliver your project on time and on budget.

Should you have any questions about these terms, please feel absolutely free to let us know and we will discuss accordingly.

Terms and Conditions

AGREEMENT

This agreement between undersigned Digital Storytellers (hereafter “DS”) and the undersigned client (hereafter “Client”), governs the assignment described in this proposal, and along with these Terms and Conditions, constitutes the entire agreement between the parties concerning that assignment.

FEES & SCOPE

The fees charged by DS are exclusively for the scope agreed upon in the proposal and invoices prepared by DS for the Client.
Any subsequent scope changes to the job description made after both parties have signed this agreement, including additional requests for workshops and support time, will result in extra charges if more work by DS is required.
Quotations and proposals are valid for three months from published date.

PAYMENT TERMS (Workshop)

The client shall make payments at the agreed milestones for the project as per the following schedule:
- First 60% - Commissioning Invoice: Upon commissioning of the job.
- Final 40% - Completion Invoice: Upon delivery of the final workshops or deliverables.
Payments are due within 14 days of invoice date. Any delay in payment over 30 days from invoice date will accrue additional fees of 10% of the outstanding balance per week of delay, unless otherwise acknowledged in writing by the Directors or Senior Management Team of DS.
Projects shall not begin until the commissioning payment is received by DS, unless confirmed in writing by the Directors of DS. Approval for project start can be issued upon confirmation of an expected payment date on the Commissioning Invoice from the Client.
Projects under $10,000 excluding GST are fully payable upon commissioning of the work.

CANCELLATIONS

In the event of the cancellation of a workshop by the Client or subject with less than exactly two weeks' notice, Client shall pay all related expenses incurred by DS up to the time of cancellation, including travel costs and facilitators' day rates.

CLIENT REPRESENTATION

The Client is responsible for the presence of an authorised representative at all workshop days to approve DS’ interpretation of the assignment.
If a Client representative is not present, the DS interpretation shall be deemed acceptable based on the proposal received by the client accompanying this document.

INDEMNIFICATION

Client hereby indemnifies and holds DS harmless against any and all liabilities, claims and expenses, including legal fees, arising from Client’s use of DS’ work.

DS retains a non-exclusive license to use the produced materials for promotional usage only.

We look forward to working with you. Thank you for this opportunity!

workshops@digitalstorytellers.com.au