About Brave Day
How we work
Brave Day is a purpose-led social enterprise supporting organisations and communities to plan, design, and deliver multimedia storytelling work thoughtfully and responsibly - with care for the people involved and the realities they’re working within.
Operating as a social enterprise allows us to balance professional production standards with community-centred practice. Time, learning, and resources are reinvested into approaches that help people build confidence, judgement, and skill in telling their own stories, rather than relying solely on external delivery.
A storytelling bridge between different sectors and communities
Brave Day often works at the edges between sectors - commercial, public, and community - helping teams learn from one another and develop storytelling processes that are considered, grounded, and genuinely useful, particularly where complexity or sensitivity is involved.
The work is guided by a set of principles that shape how projects are designed, paced, and delivered:
Collaborative, rather than extractive
Context-specific, not off-the-shelf
Focused on learning, sustainability, and long-term capacity
Designed to support wellbeing, not burnout
The Brave Day Approach
The Brave Day Approach is a practical framework for ethical, strategic storytelling, developed through over a decade of work with organisations and communities.
Whether we’re developing a storytelling strategy, designing training and capacity-building, or working on a multimedia project or production, the Brave Day Approach guides contributors and participants through a process of:
Explore — Express — Connect — Grow
This framework helps teams plan, create, and reflect on storytelling in ways that build understanding, confidence, and connection — not just content.
Who we are
Brave Day is led by Kirstie Henderson — creative storytelling guide, co-designer, filmmaker, and founder of Brave Day.
Role and experience
My background spans over 25 years in filmmaking and multimedia production, alongside more than a decade building a community-centred storytelling practice grounded in trauma-informed, dignity-led principles.
I work across health, education, social enterprise, culture, and community settings, often in spaces where complexity, lived experience, and change intersect.
I’m often brought in when teams need a thinking partner and creative storytelling shaper — someone who can hold complexity, ask the right questions, and help translate between institutional goals and lived experience.
Brave Day is intentionally senior-led and relational, shaped through close, collaborative relationships with clients and partners. I work directly with clients, often beginning with storytelling strategy, consultation, and creative co-design.
From there, I may support the coordination and production of multimedia work — depending on what’s most appropriate for the project and the people involved.
Where useful, this also includes training and capacity-building, supporting organisations to develop their own media skills and storytelling confidence as part of a wider, sustainable approach.
Collaboration and care
Over many years, I’ve built an extensive network of trusted collaborative partners across multimedia production, health and wellbeing, facilitation, education, and culture change.
These collaborators are brought into projects and programmes when their specific expertise will genuinely strengthen the work, particularly for longer-term initiatives, cross-sector partnerships, or work involving learning, wellbeing, and organisational change.
Where appropriate, I also look for ways to build in supported assistant or shadowing roles for emerging creatives and young people, particularly those seeking real-world experience in community-centred and ethically considered storytelling. These opportunities are always carefully scoped and mentored, ensuring delivery standards are protected while offering meaningful, confidence-building experience rather than unpaid or extractive labour.
— Kirstie Henderson
Founder, Brave Day