Ethical Video Storytelling Training
Building Confident, Capable Digital Storytellers
All training is designed and facilitated by Kirstie Henderson, an experienced storytelling practitioner and filmmaker with 25 years of cross-sector experience in health, education, arts, and community organisations.
Brave Day's training approach is rooted in ethics, dignity, and human empathy, centring lived experience and giving people genuine agency over their own narratives. Every session is hands-on, practical, and built around real content your organisation can actually use.
Two ways to work together:
Digital Storytelling Audit and Planning Sessions:
Understanding where you are and mapping where you want to go.
Hands-on Video Filming and Editing Sessions:
Learning by doing, with real stories and real content.
Why Work With Me
Hello! I’m Kirstie,
a filmmaker, creative practitioner, and digital storytelling trainer with over 25 years of experience telling stories that create change.
I've spent two and a half decades making films with and for real people in health, education, arts, and community settings. I know what it feels like to walk into a room where nobody feels confident on camera, and I know how to change that by the end of the day.
My training isn't theory from a textbook. Every session is built around real stories, real people, and real content that participants can actually use. Whether you're a solo business owner who's never picked up a camera, or a comms team that films regularly but wants to do it better and more ethically, I'll meet you where you are.
What makes working with me different:
You leave with usable content, not just notes from a workshop
Sessions are hands-on, practical, and paced to your team's confidence level
Everything is grounded in ethical, dignity-led storytelling practice
I bring 25 years of real filmmaking experience into the room, not a slide deck
You get a takeaway tips booklet to refer back to long after the session
-Kirstie Henderson, Founder, Brave Day
Ways I can help you
Ethical Digital Storytelling Training options
Jump to the offer that fits where you are right now:
Digital Storytelling Review and Strategy Day - from £450
Video and Editing Skills Days for Solo and Small Business - from £1000
Video and Editing Skills Days for Organisational Teams - from £1500
Video Storytelling Digital Toolkit Creation for Wider Team Training - from £6000
Brave Day partners and clients
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GMCA
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Rochdale Breaking Barriers CIC
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A Brilliant Thing CIC
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The Roots Programme
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BBC Radio
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RFK Human Rights UK
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The Open University
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Breaking Barriers - Multimedia workshops
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Brilliant Thing CIC - Healing-centred design principles workshop
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NHS GM - Video storytelling training
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Breaking Barriers - health & wellbeing films
Ethical Digital Storytelling Training offer 1:
Digital Storytelling Review and Strategy Day
from £450
A Health Check for Your Organisation or Business Digital Storytelling
Who it's for:
This is for comms leads, marketing managers, senior leaders, or anyone responsible for how your organisation tells its story, who wants expert input before committing to a bigger investment.
What's included:
Pre-session preparation and review of your current content and channels
A focused 3-hour session (online or in person)
A written summary of findings and recommendations
This focused session is designed to help you take stock of how your organisation currently uses digital storytelling, what's working, and where the gaps are.
Together, we'll look at your existing content strategy, goals, audiences, and team confidence levels. You'll come away with a clear picture of where you are now and honest, practical recommendations for what to do next, whether that's training, production support, or a combination of both.
Optional add-ons:
Add-on Zoom support: +£75 per hour
[Enquire about Digital Storytelling Review]
Ethical Digital Storytelling Training offer 2:
Video and Editing Skills Days for Solo and Small Business
from £1000
Practical Video Storytelling for Independent Business Owners
Who it's for:
This is for you if you're a sole trader, freelancer, or small business owner who wants to get confident with video content without spending a fortune on a production company. You'll learn the basics of storytelling strategy, camera technique, and editing in a relaxed, supportive setting.
Pair up!
I encourage solo business owners to pair up with another business owner for this session. It makes the day less daunting, you can encourage each other, share the learning, and split the cost. One of you can step in front of the camera while the other practises filming, so you both get to experience both sides of the process.
What's included:
Planning Zoom (2.5 hours):
Before the filming day, we connect on Zoom to understand your business, your goals, and the content that would be most useful to you. We'll look at your current social media and online presence and map out a simple plan for the filming day.
This session is bookable separately if you'd like a standalone Digital Storytelling Review without filming or editing days(see above).
Filming Day (4 hours):
This is a hands-on day of practising filming b-roll and interview techniques. We start with a short discussion of expectations and plans for the day. Then it’s watch and learn, as Kirstie demonstrates some filming techniques, and then try it yourself.
Capture creative shots using a mobile phone or another type of camera, such as the DJI Osmo Pocket. We keep it simple, practical, and focused on what you can realistically do yourself.
Editing Day - scheduled separately (4 hours):
We sit down together and go through the footage from the filming day, practising the basics of editing in Canva or another simple editing app. By the end of the session you'll have a short piece of edited content and the confidence to keep going independently.
Bonus:
Every participant receives a professionally designed Brave Day tips booklet covering storytelling strategies, filming basics, and editing checklists for reference. The day also includes time for headshots and behind-the-scenes images you can use across your social media.
Optional add-ons:
Additional Editing Time: +£75 per hour
Digital Storytelling Review and full audit (half day): +£450
Additional planning and coordination for complex filming setups, consent management, or location logistics: +£250
Add-on Zoom support: +£75 per hour
[Enquire about Digital Storytelling Small Business Skills Days]
Ethical Digital Storytelling Training offer 3:
Video and Editing Skills Days for Organisational Teams
from £1500
Hands-On Video Storytelling Training for Small Teams
Who it's for:
Small teams of 2 to 5 people from purpose-led organisations in health, education, housing, arts, or the community sector. Particularly well suited to organisations where one person is currently carrying all the video content responsibilities and wants to upskill the wider team.
This is practical, hands-on training built around a real filming project within your organisation. A small group from your team spends the day with me learning by doing, observing, practising, and asking questions at every stage of the process.
No prior experience needed. Just curiosity and a willingness to have a go.
Real example: Steps to Feeding Success, Wigan - May 2026
A specialist service supporting families with children experiencing feeding difficulties brought together their comms coordinator, an occupational therapist, and a support nurse for a full day of filming. A family came in for an afternoon session in the physio room, followed by a cookery class, giving the team real, meaningful content to capture. By the end of the day, they had footage of genuine value and a clear sense of how to keep filming independently. This was followed by an editing day, during which they learnt to turn that footage into social media content using Canva.
What’s included:
Planning Zoom (included in core package): Before the filming day, we connect to understand your goals, identify the team's current confidence levels, and plan the shoot together. We'll figure out who you're filming, where, and why, so the day runs smoothly.
Filming Day (6 hours):
We start with a storytelling strategy session that covers the purpose of your content, your audiences, how to plan and structure a story, and which equipment works best for your needs. Then we go on location and film: interviews, b-roll, and real content from within your organisation. I lead the filming while the team observes, asks questions, and gradually gets involved.
Editing Day - scheduled separately (4 hours):
We sit down together and edit some of the footage into social media content, learning the basics of editing in Canva or Adobe Express. Your team will be equipped to continue editing the remaining content independently.
What's included in the core package:
Planning Zoom (up to 1.5 hours)
Full filming day covering storytelling strategy and hands-on practice
Editing session (scheduled separately)
Takeaway tips booklet for every participant
Optional add-ons:
Additional Editing Time: +£75 per hour
Digital Storytelling Review and full audit (half day): +£450
Additional planning and coordination for complex filming setups such as patient or family participants, consent management, or location logistics: +£250
Add-on Zoom support: +£75 per hour
[Enquire about Organisation Digital Storytelling Skills Days]
Ethical Digital Storytelling Training offer 4:
Video Storytelling - Digital Toolkit Creation
From £6,000 to £10,000
A Complete Digital Training Programme Your Whole Organisation Can Use
Who it's for:
Larger organisations that want to embed video storytelling skills and resources across teams, departments, or programmes. Particularly suited to NHS trusts, local authorities, housing associations, and national charities with multiple teams or sites.
This is the most comprehensive offer. A bespoke video storytelling programme designed specifically for your organisation and built to last well beyond the training itself.
Together, we create a tailored toolkit of training sessions and professionally produced resources that your team can use, share, and return to again and again. New recruits, other departments, partner organisations; the toolkit grows with you.
Think of it as building permanent storytelling capability from the inside out.
Real example: NHS Greater Manchester Video Storytelling Toolkit (Oct 2025)
The Communications, Community Engagement, Media, Design, and Digital teams needed more than a single training day. After an initial hands-on workshop with around ten participants, it became clear that what the team really needed was a scalable resource they could share across Greater Manchester without relying on repeated external training.
I redesigned the brief from the ground up. I interviewed the heads of each department about why video storytelling mattered for their specific work, from social media campaigns to press releases to community engagement and public health research. I edited their responses into a short opening film, giving team members encouragement and a clear sense of purpose from their own leadership before they'd even started the training.
I then filmed a complete demonstration of filming and editing, presented by their own comms and digital lead, Josie, who was already highly skilled but stretched thin, carrying most of the video work herself. Having Josie present rather than me built immediate trust and credibility with her colleagues. I scripted a voiceover for the editing section, with Josie recording it in her own voice, and created a screen recording of a live edit to walk viewers through the process step by step.
The final deliverable:
A fully designed interactive PDF using NHS GM's branding and document style, containing written tutorials, embedded video clips, checklists, and practical guides covering everything from planning and filming to editing and publishing. It's now used across teams throughout Greater Manchester.
What they said:
“Kirstie was great to work with from start to finish. We were really happy with the end product, and our communications and engagement team felt more confident producing high-quality, engaging content across multiple platforms.” - Jessica Herbert
Head of Campaigns, Digital and Design — NHS Greater Manchester
What’s included:
A scoping phase to understand your organisation's storytelling goals, audiences, and internal skill levels
A programme of live training sessions tailored to your needs
Professionally produced video tutorials and demonstrations
A fully designed interactive resource your team can share and refer back to
Supporting guides, templates, and workflows for ongoing independent use
Production days to create the toolkit content itself
[Enquire About Digital Video StorytellingToolkit]
More ways to work together
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Standalone Storytelling Projects
For organisations with a specific story to tell, whether documenting a project, event, or campaign, or collaborating on an interdisciplinary storytelling project.
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Multi-Level Digital Storytelling
For complex programmes requiring cross-sector storytelling to connect the dots together, with lived experience at the heart of the work.