Digital media StoryTelling workshops & Training
Digital media StoryTelling workshops & Training
Build your team’s capacity for trauma informed digital media storytelling.
Whether you're filming a community engagement project, creating content for social change, or building storytelling capacity within your organisation, these introductory, practical digital media storytelling workshops will give you the skills, confidence, and ethical framework you need.
Who These Workshops Are For
✓ Team members seeking practical filming and editing skills
✓ Project managers and commissioners designing storytelling initiatives
✓ Leaders building storytelling capacity within their organisations
✓ Anyone committed to ethical, inclusive approaches to capturing and sharing stories
Individuals from across different organisations can book onto any of the 3 introductory workshops, as a one-off workshop or combined.
If you would like a bespoke session for your organisation, please get in touch via the google docs form or email to discuss your requirements further.
3 core workshop offers
1. Filming Techniques Workshop
Learn the essentials of ethical, participant-centred filming - from technical basics to creating safe, collaborative filming environments.
You will learn:
Basic camera confidence whether using a smartphone or small digital camera
Shot composition
Sound and lighting
Interviewing techniques
Preparation for filming
Ethical filming practices
Investment:
£165 per person for a full-day workshop (min 10 participants)
A number of early bird and discounted places will be available from early January - Register your interest at the bottom of this page.
2. Editing Techniques Workshop
Build confidence with editing software and develop the analytical skills to shape raw footage into compelling, authentic stories.
You will learn:
Introduction to Adobe Express - technical skills for editing video and audio content
Exploring types of video editing formats for different purposes - social media and website promos
Structuring content to create compelling stories
Investment:
£165 per person for a full-day workshop (min 10 participants)
A number of early bird and discounted places will be available from early January - register your interest at the bottom of this page.
3. Co-Designing Storytelling Projects Workshop
A workshop is for project managers, team leaders, and commissioners who want to expand their knowledge and skills when co-designing multi-layered, multi-purpose digital media storytelling projects.
In this hands-on and interactive workshop, you will learn how to design participatory storytelling projects that centre ethics, inclusion, and authentic voice from the start, using the Brave Day Approach framework
Trauma-informed project design
Multi-stakeholder collaboration
Realistic budgets & timescales
Capacity-building strategies
Investment:
£250 per person for a full-day workshop (min 10 participants)
A number of early bird and discounted places will be available from early January - register your interest at the bottom of this page.
what makes our workshops different?
Delivered by a team with cross-sector experience in purpose-led digital media storytelling, rooted in community engagement, capacity building, and social change.
Trauma-Informed Practice - Not just technical skills, but how to create psychologically safe storytelling spaces
Collaborative Delivery - Co-facilitated by specialists who bring complementary expertise
Participant-Led - Learn by doing, with plenty of hands-on practice and peer learning
Long-Term Support - Workshops are just the beginning - build ongoing relationships for project support
Who's Delivering These Workshops?
Workshops are delivered by Kirstie Henderson (founder of Brave Day, filmmaker and digital media storytelling project producer and mentor) in collaboration with specialist co-facilitators, each bringing complementary expertise in technical skills, organisational development, and sector-specific knowledge.
This collaborative approach models the partnership-based methodology we teach, demonstrates Brave Day's team capacity, and ensures workshops remain responsive to diverse participant needs.
About Brave Day
Brave Day is a 10-year-old social enterprise based in Northern England, specialising in digital media storytelling for social change. Founded and led by Kirstie Henderson, filmmaker and digital media trainer and mentor, Brave Day has evolved from a sole-practitioner model to a collaborative team approach, working with purpose-led organisations, public services, and community groups to design and deliver digital media storytelling projects that centre on ethics, inclusion, and authentic voice.
Before founding Brave Day, Kirstie worked as a video producer and video creative production team leader for UK and international communications and events agencies, giving her a breadth of storytelling experience across commercial and third sector organisations.
Recent Projects include:
Recent Brave Day projects include documenting the £1m GMCA and NHS GM Live Well Communities Fund across Greater Manchester (involving multiple stakeholders, community filmmakers, and complex multi-layered storytelling) and creating comprehensive video training resources for NHS Greater Manchester's digital, engagement, and media teams. This work demonstrates Brave Day's capacity to operate at scale whilst maintaining trauma-informed, collaborative practices.
Other clients include -
Manchester Metropolitan University
Pendle West Primary Care Network
RFK Human Rights Foundation
BBC Contains Strong Language Festival
BBC Education and Open University
Breaking Barriers CIC
Action Together
Cartwheel Arts
In-Situ
The Brave Day Approach
Our workshops and training are all grounded in The Brave Day Approach - a four-element framework for transformational digital media storytelling:
EXPLORE - Research, listening, identifying story layers
EXPRESS - Shaping stories that hold complexity
CONNECT - Building trust and inspiring action
GROW - Sustaining capacity beyond single projects
This framework helps co-designers and facilitators of storytelling projects understand the considerations and support needed to successfully guide participants through the story development process, building skills, fostering trust and confidence, and inspiring action.
Brave Day is also accredited in Healing-Centred Design® Principles - an evidence-based, trauma-informed, transformation framework developed by A Brilliant Thing CIC, that blends systemic, creative and reflective approaches.
Building strategic partnerships
Beyond Skills Training
Our storytelling workshops exist within a broader ecosystem of system change work. Brave Day recognises that effective storytelling doesn't happen in isolation - it emerges from organisations that are simultaneously working on culture change, trauma-informed practice, and systems transformation. This is why collaboration with coaches, organisational development specialists, and system changers is central to our model.
We will continue to work in partnership with A Brilliant Thing and other culture and system changemakers to offer clients a fully rounded storytelling and transformational development offering.
Register your interest
Ready to build your storytelling capacity? Want to learn more about specific workshops?
Complete our short inquiry form to:
• Register for Cycle 1 (Feb-April 2026)
• Early bird sign-up for Cycle 2 (April-June 2026)
• Request more information about specific workshops
• Inquire about custom in-house workshops for your organisation
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