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Your story matters. Here's how to tell it.

You're doing important work. But if people can't feel it, they can't support it.

This half-day workshop teaches you how to turn your mission into stories that move people - using just your smartphone. No expensive equipment. No production team. No AI prompt that can do this for you 🙃.

Because authentic storytelling isn't something you can outsource. It comes from you- your voice, your community, your unique point of view. We'll show you how to find it, shape it, and share it.

Who is this for?

This workshop is for you if you:

Work in communications, advocacy, or programs at a nonprofit or social enterprise
Are a social entrepreneur with a story you know needs to be told
Are tired of your impact getting lost in reports nobody reads
Are curious about storytelling
Want practical skills you can use immediately

No filmmaking experience needed. Beginners and experienced communicators both leave with something valuable.

What You'll Learn:

How to use our Story Canvas tool to brainstorm story ideas and develop an effective storytelling strategy
Narrative frameworks
How to use your phone or tablet to record good quality interviews, dynamic footage and audio
Tools for planning your story
Tools for editing short, sharp and shareable videos on your smartphone or tablet
An understanding of how to approach impact storytelling with ethics at the forefront

By the end of our Intro workshop you will have:

A story idea developed using our Story Canvas tool — a clear, structured concept ready to film
Hands-on experience filming with your smartphone, including interviews, dynamic footage, and audio
An introduction to mobile editing tools so you can cut and share short videos yourself
A practical understanding of ethical impact storytelling — how to tell stories with, not about, your community
The confidence to go home and start

In an age of AI, authentic stories matter more than ever

AI is here, and it has some incredible tools that can make this process easier: it can help you write captions. It can generate scripts. It can even edit footage.

But it can't sit with the person whose life your work has changed. It can't feel the moment when a story lands. It can't build the trust that makes someone open up on camera.

The organisations cutting through right now are the ones who've learned to tell their own stories - with honesty and with heart.

That's what this workshop is about.

See what our students have created:

George St Neighbourhood Centre - CALD Women’s Club

Participant Feedback

“ 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”

– Sophie Lamond, Fair Food Challenge

"What a fantastic workshop that allowed for optimal practical and theory application of video creating, which for a complete beginner was perfect. Loved the fact that at the end of the course I could and did make a video!"

- Participant, Sydney 2-Day Intensive

Please note:

If you would like to attend the workshop but are unable to register at full cost apply for a scholarship.

As part of our efforts to Pay the Rent, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are welcomed at no cost. We pay respects to the Traditional Custodians on whose land this event takes place. Sovereignty was never ceded. Please choose this option upon checkout.

Facilitator: Julia Lörsch

Julia Lörsch is a factual writer, producer, director and story facilitator. Beginning in fiction at the iconic Neighbours (FremantleMedia), Julia moved into documentary with Matchbox Pictures (SBS) and international feature Viramundo (Dreampixies), before becoming co-head of production at B-Corp social enterprise agency Digital Storytellers. There she produced and directed over 50 impact shorts. Now freelance, Julia premiered The Oyster Gardner 2023 (writer/producer) on ABC at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival, and won People’s Choice Award for The Art Side of the Moon 2024 (writer/producer) at the Toronto Alternative Film Festival 2025. Both films will be launched to the moon on NASA missions in 2026 as part of an enduring cultural archive.

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