Storytelling & Expression is a community-based creative pathway for young people who may benefit from supported communication, storytelling, self-expression and inclusive participation.

As a narrative pathway within Creative Wellbeing & Participation, it offers accessible ways to explore voice, identity, authorship and connection through tactile, visual, sensory and digital methods.

This pathway welcomes participants with disability, AAC users, verbal participants, and young people with diverse communication, sensory, mobility or support needs. Storytelling is used as a flexible method for communication, identity expression, authorship and social participation.

Sessions may combine tactile, visual, sensory, object-based, performative and digital methods so that participants can engage in ways that are appropriate to their communication profile, preferred modes of expression and level of support.

The emphasis is not on technical mastery or formal media training, but on creating accessible opportunities for participants to communicate in multiple ways, develop stories and characters, express preferences and identity, and contribute to shared creative outcomes.

What sessions may include

morning sharing space
creative warm-up through low-demand sensory, visual, object-based or image-based invitations
structured story activity supporting character-making, sequencing, scene-building or multimodal narrative development
everyday participation through breaks, transitions, requests for help, turn-taking and supported decision-making
reflection and documentation through photos, short clips, screenshots, captions or simple artist/story panels

Methods used across the pathway

puppet and object storytelling
stop motion and visual sequence
sensory storytelling through sound, textures, mood and objects
character, world and shared scene creation
accessible digital storytelling tools such as Pictello, Canva, Book Creator and simple stop motion apps

What this pathway helps support

communication and expression
identity expression and symbolic representation
sequencing and narrative awareness
confidence and authorship
belonging and social participation
visibility and shared creative outcomes

Program details

Program dates: 8 May – 16 December 2026
Format: Ongoing small-group program
Day: Fridays
Time: 9:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre

Participants may attend with their own 1:1 support workers where needed.

NDIS information

Suitable for self-managed or plan-managed participants.

Sessions may be invoiced under the participant’s relevant NDIS funding category for social and community participation, depending on individual goals and plan arrangements.

Registration note

Please note: registration is an expression of interest only and does not confirm a place. We will contact families and/or support teams to discuss suitability, support needs and next steps.

Contact

For enquiries or expressions of interest, please contact:
contact@kosmovision.org.au

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