Story Telling and Harvesting

Our day will be highly immersive and participatory including a lunch break and smaller breaks across the day.

Storytelling and capturing stories are important tools for communication, connection and understanding if what we are doing is making a difference. Data is all around us, how we capture and share the data (storytelling) plays a pivotal role in community engagement and change making.

Not only do stories connect us as humans, you never know when an opportunity to share or receive a story will happen. Storytelling connects us all in the moment and harvesting enables the stories to live on. Many believe that storytelling and harvesting is a unique skill reserved for elders, writers, artists or children. However, we can all be storytellers and we are all definitely recipients of them.

This workshop is for anyone interested in building their ability to capture and tell stories.

During this interactive workshop, you will learn:

• the purpose of storytelling and harvesting

• the role storytelling and harvesting plays in your work

• different ways to create opportunities to share and capture stories

• how to use storytelling for influence

• The importance of storytelling and its importance as data

This event is for:

• ANYONE with a passion for sharing and hearing the voices of community and influencing change or wanting to be more creative in their practices.
• Community members and not for profit leaders
• Community organisers and their teams
• Business leaders and social entrepreneurs
• Next generation leaders and other young activists
• Department leaders, policy officers and program managers
• NDIS directors, team leaders, planners

Your hosts for this event are:

Vic Tyler - I am an educator and trainer I established and managed a tertiary college known as “Art and Pottery School”. I established a primary and secondary school” Fern Valley Montessori School” I am a current Director of “Kieran and Matt’s Place Ltd’ a not for profit that manages a group home that uses self-management principles and focuses on Person Centered Practice and active support to achieve goals and outcomes.

I have completed the Masters of Health Science (Developmental Disability) with The University of Sydney with major studies in Mental Health and Disability. I have experience in preparing Behaviour Support Plans and Support Coordination and client assessment to enable a good life and to reduce restrictive practice. I have a passion for inclusion of people who are marginalized. Empowering and enabling community has been a major driver throughout my life journey.

Steph Bitter is a young and enthusiastic individual, passionate about supporting people to realise and express the most authentic version of themselves. With a background as a writer, performing musician and songwriter, they studied a Diploma of Community Services to align their passion for rights and social justice with a love of connecting with people. Steph blends Asset-Based Community Development, Participatory Community Development, and Person-Centred practices to support individuals and communities to find belonging and create authentic meaning in their lives.

Fiona Miller - Fiona is a creative conduit with a diverse back ground that includes community development, creative & visual arts, early years, education, bushfire recovery, inclusion, community houses, community gardens and more. Having worked within a variety of organisations/agencies and local governments she has a broad understanding of the diversity of organisational structures.
As a facilitator, graphic harvester or community member, contributing to community for making great places and participating in community led projects that are sustainable are her focus. She loves nothing more than watching people and projects grow and uses creative arts, ABCD and strengths based practices as platforms for discovering and exploring community futures.
Supporting our young people to explore their own place within community is something she sees as particularly important. Everyone deserves to feel safe and be included and we can build relationships and have fun while we do it.