Digital Storytellers

📣 Join us for some inspiring lunchtime learning today! 📣

(Pssst - Friends of Digital Storytellers get 50% off -- just use the code CCIDGDS when you register)

📌Inner Development Goals: Accelerating Conscious Leadership for a Thrivable Future
Monday, 13 November 2023
12:00 - 1:00pm AEST +15 mins networking
A Virtual Learning & Networking event

Hear stories of the Inner Development Goals and explore what they look like at the level of self, business and society, and their connection to Conscious Capitalism tenets.

Partnered with Conscious Capitalism Australia & New Zealand, we're excited to bring you this story-driven series, "Evolving Conscious Business" -- an online gathering that grows the Conscious Capitalism community of practice, and evolves the narrative and practice of conscious business.

Let's re-author the story of business as we tell, listen, and weave stories of conscious business practices and carry insights and learnings into our practice as conscious business leaders.

Learn more and register here:
https://events.humanitix.com/inner-development-goals-accelerating-conscious-leadership-for-a-thrivable-future

Guess what? We've just extended the early bird offer for our next Stories for Impact Workshop in Sydney!

Join us for a 1-day workshop on Thursday, November 9th and learn how to find, make and edit powerful digital stories for your project, cause or organisation.

Register before Monday, 23rd October and you'll also get access to the Stories for Impact Online Course (worth $150).

Stories For Impact Workshop with Digital Storytellers (November - Sydney) | Humanitix Stories For Impact Workshop with Digital Storytellers (November - Sydney) , Hosted at Darlinghurst Community Space, 277 Bourke St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia, Thu 9th Nov 2023, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm AEDT. Tickets are between $150-$400. Only on Humanitix

What does regenerative business and leadership look like in practice? How is it different from sustainability?

Join us at "Beyond Sustainability: Regenerative Practices for a Thrivable Future" to exchange and explore stories on regenerative practice, to form valuable and heart-warming connections with others in the conscious business community, and find new perspectives and inspiration on what it means to be regenerative in business and leadership.

We're excited to be partnered with Conscious Capitalism Australia & New Zealand to kick off the "Evolving Conscious Business" series. This is the first of many story-driven gatherings where we'll come together to tell, listen, and weave stories of conscious business practices and contribute to re-authoring the story of business.

Do join us there with a regenerative story of your own!

Learn more and register here:
https://events.humanitix.com/from-sustainability-to-trivability-regenerative-practices-in-business-and-leadership

LESS THAN A WEEK AWAY!

- What is the purpose of an economy and the role of business in it?
- How do we include non-human stakeholders in our business value chains?
- How do we work regeneratively at the level of self?

These are just some of the questions we'll explore at our upcoming gathering...

Beyond Sustainability: Regenerative Practices for a Thrivable Future
A Virtual Learning and Networking event
Mon 28th Aug 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm AEST
Online

Join us for some inspiring lunchtime learning and networking as we explore what regenerative practice looks like at the level of self, business and society.

And bring your regenerative story to share!
We're gathering to connect, learn and exchange stories of change, challenge and success, and to re-author the story of business as we tell, listen, and weave stories of conscious business practices and carry insights and learnings into our practice as conscious business leaders.

We'd love to have you there!

REGISTER NOW:
https://events.humanitix.com/from-sustainability-to-trivability-regenerative-practices-in-business-and-leadership

Meet the team who will be facilitating our next Stories for Impact Workshop in Sydney on Friday 5th May!

Find out more about the workshop and register: https://events.humanitix.com/stories-for-impact-workshop-with-digital-storytellers-may-sydney?c=fbpost1

Natasha Akib is a Co-creator and Director at Digital Storytellers, where she founded and leads the Stories for Impact Workshops. Natasha has led storytelling programs for organisations such as UNDP Somalia, the World Health Organisation, Central Land Council and Facebook. Natasha is also a participant in Documentary Australia's 2023 Impact Producer Program, working on campaigns using documentary to create systemic change across a range of issues. Natasha has over a decade of experience as a producer, videographer and editor for social and environmental impact projects. Prior to her work with Digital Storytellers, Natasha was the Community Builder at StartSomeGood, Head Editor at Vibewire Youth Inc. and a Marketing Officer at Bhutan Observer.

Ed Coney is an international award winning filmmaker with a conviction for making films with purpose and crafting inspiring stories. From shining a light on entrepreneurs in the South Pacific to helping urban communities build a more eco-friendly environment, storytelling has the power to shift perceptions and create change. Ed's most recent film, A Rohingya's Journey, won several awards including “Best Film” and “Best Documentary” at the Australian/Indonesian film festival - ReelOzInd and Second Place a the Struggle Film Festival. It was also selected in film festivals in UK, Belgium and Sweden.

Abbey Sheather is a Sydney-based young creative with a background in film and video design. Starting at Digital Storytellers last year, Abbey joined with an eagerness to collaborate with like-minded creatives and better understand the power of storytelling. She wants to provide an opportunity for people to develop their thoughts and in turn, create conversations, build relationships, and evoke self-reflection.

Guess what? We've just extended the early bird offer for our next Stories for Impact Workshop!

Join us at the Impact Story Lab in Sydney on Friday May 5th and learn how to find, make and edit powerful digital stories for your project, cause or organisation.

Register before Friday 21st of April and you'll also get access to the Stories for Impact Online Course (worth $150).

Register: https://events.humanitix.com/stories-for-impact-workshop-with-digital-storytellers-may-sydney?c=fbpost1

𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙨❗

We have our next workshop happening on Friday May 5th.
Join us at our Sydney hub to learn how to FIND, MAKE, EDIT and SHARE video stories for your project, cause or organisation using smartphones and simple tech.

Tickets are available here - and for any questions, contact us via [email protected]

Happy storytelling!



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Stories For Impact Workshop with Digital Storytellers (May - Sydney) , Darlinghurst, Fri 5th May 2023, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm AEST | Humanitix **Register before Friday 14th April and get free access to our Online Course (usually $150)** Are you ready to unlock your inner storyteller? Join the passionate team from Digital Storytellers and learn how to FIND, MAKE, EDIT and SHARE video stories for your project, cause or organisation. You'll d...

At Digital Storytellers, we know the impact of our business extends far beyond our day to day operations.

That’s why, as a BCorp, to contribute to the ecosystems we thrive in – the storytelling, media, marketing and comms sector, as well as the social enterprise and broader business communities we belong to.

How do we go beyond?

Locally, we host the Impact Story Lab in Sydney, a space at the intersection of creative, entrepreneurial and purpose-driven communities.

We are passionate about the democratisation of power through story and created Stories For Impact, a flagship storytelling capacity building program, to help everyone find, make and share their story.

We also believe that story can be ethical and (re)generative when it is authentic, inclusive, non-manipulative, embraces plurality and consciously navigates the dangers of a single story. And most especially when it helps us shift towards a living systems perspective of being in the world. We advocate for and embed this in our work, creating the Leading Through Story program for leaders to wield the art and science of story in a responsible, regenerative and transformational way.

To make it all accessible, we create and freely share open source tools and resources like the Collective Story Mapping Toolkit, Regenerative Story guide, Story Canvas and more, for all communities to benefit from.

You can find them all in our blogs and resources here:
https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/blog/

Last but not least, we lead, support and partner with initiatives like Enterprising Stories, Regen Sydney, B Corp and Conscious Capitalism to help accelerate systemic shifts across business ecosystems for a flourishing world.

OK, that was a mouthful! But as a , we uphold that impact must be built-in, rather than a bolt-on. And we do our best to create good in as may ways as we can.

So this , we encourage all businesses to look at how they can be better for the world in more ways than one, and to see how else they can !

"If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb

We know impact isn't achieved all on our own. Collaboration is key. And B Corps work together in more ways than one.

In celebration of how together this , we take a moment to shout out fellow The Cause Effect for being a legend and a wonderful collaborator.

Last year, we sat down to look at what might be possible to create greater impact together.

We know Purpose unleashes amazing things for teams and organisations. And so does Story.

But what lies at the intersection Purpose and Story?

That's exactly what we set out to explore. And from that, Love Stories for Business was born.

You can read more about activating purpose through the power of story here:
https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/blog-love-stories-for-business-and-activating-purpose/

And watch the intro webinar for the unique program we co-created here:
https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/love-stories-for-business-webinar/

Being a is all about creating greater benefit for all. And we hope this inspires others to put heads, hands and hearts together and see what possibilities are uncovered when together.

Thank you Carolyn Butler-Madden for remaining a powerhouse of energy and inspiration, and for your dedication to a better world through . We're excited to be going beyond together with you.

Why is creating a ecosystem is key to transforming the global economy?

Check out this article from B Corporation: Australia & New Zealand by Carmen Hawker:
https://bcorporation.com.au/blog/creating-a-b-corp-storytelling-ecosystem/

We couldn't resonate more!

Here's to the power of story x to transform the global economy and the world we live in.

Why creating a storytelling ecosystem is key to transforming the global economy - B Lab Australia & New Zealand How purpose-driven businesses and B Corps can use storytelling to unlock the power of business for good and create systems change.

Being part of the community means that we work together and to take collective action and achieve systemic impact, in our industry and beyond.

For , we’re running a Collective Story Process, exploring and shaping our BCorp Collective Story.

We’re collecting stories from BCorps all through the month. Then together, weaving them into a collective narrative of what it means for the BCorp movement to “Go Beyond”.

📢 Calling all B Corps!

👉 Lend your voice to the movement and contribute to the B Corp movement’s collective story here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ1NcXgLmqpxX1jeEp4L3bMVAV-aoPi7pDHtAA5SATgylMpw/viewform

👉 And join us for the BCorp Collective Story Workshop on Tuesday, 28 March, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm AEDT to participate and learn how to weave together an inspiring collective narrative in this 90 minute workshop:
https://events.humanitix.com/bcorp-collective-story-workshop

BCorp-curious? Come along too!

The more of us who choose to do things differently, the faster systemic change will happen. Because what’s an ocean when you break it down? An infinite number of tiny drops. And so, the more drops there are, the bigger the wave.

❓ What story will we tell together?
We can’t wait to hear your stories and see you at the workshop!



B Corporation: Australia & New Zealand

Digital Storytellers updated their info in the about section.

Want to activate purpose through the power of story and unleash the potential of your people?

It's not too late to join this free webinar on "Love Stories for Business":

Date: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (AEDT)
Venue: Zoom

Learn more and register here:
https://consulting.beaumontpeople.com.au/Cdr172

Hosted by Beaumont People, Chief Purpose Activist Carolyn Butler-Madden will give you insight into why purposeful storytelling is so vital in building confidence and energy around an organisation’s purpose.

You'll learn:

- The importance of coherent, inspiring storytelling, in attracting like-minded employees, customers, partners, collaborators and investors
- The three key themes behind purposeful storytelling
- The three key components of story leadership
- A simple and powerful framework to bring your brand story together.

We collaborated with fellow BCorp The Cause Effect to bring you Love Stories for Business, a unique approach that unleashes the full potential of your people by bringing together and clarifying three organisational imperatives that separate future-ready organisations from the pack.

Why? Because businesses, brands and indeed all organisations need to show up in more human ways, harnessing the full power of purposeful storytelling to empower their people to meet the challenges of our time.

For leaders of organisations with a purpose beyond profit who are seeking strategies to connect their people to their purpose and to their unique organisational identity, this session provides insight into why purposeful storytelling is so vital in building confidence and energy around an organisation’s purpose.

What are you looking forward to in 2023?

This past month, I'm sure we've all considered what we want to achieve in the coming year and put together some New Years goals - maybe it's to incorporate more sustainable living habits, grow in your storytelling abilities, or nourish your creative mind!

At Digital Storytellers, we're excited for what we can provide for you and grow the amazing community here even further.

Let us know what you want to see from us and how we can help you reach your 2023 goals!

https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/2022-favourite-stories-and-how-our-practice-has-evolved/

From the waterways of the Central Coast to the libraries of Hornsby Shire, it’s heartening to see so many local investing in story to bring their work and their communities to life.

https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/how-story-is-helping-local-councils-connect-with-their-community/

Visual storytelling is a way to engage your audience and drive change. And there are so many ways to do this!

If you want to map your story of 2023 in an engaging and shareable takeaway, we are excited to offer facilitation and story scribing with our team of talented illustrators.

Find out more about the and scribing process.
https://ds.qwilr.com/Visual-Storytelling-Proposal-Digital-Storytellers-HJKFmJ5RQdix

Visual Storytelling Proposal Digital Storytellers Made with Qwilr by the Digital Storytellers team

To build the capacity of local organisations to tell their stories and shine a light on their work, Merri-bek City Council initiated a Sustainability Community Storytellers program.

Creating a collection of stories that showcase local organisations leading sustainability initiatives in the community through webinars and workshops, find out what these budding created.

https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/portfolio/case-study-showcasing-local-sustainability-initiatives-through-story/

Calling all budding climate storytellers!

Following , now it’s your turn to find out how to find, make, edit and share your most powerful climate stories.

Kicking off in March 2023, **EOIs are now open** for our Climate Storytellers capacity building program. Find out more here → https://ds.qwilr.com/Climate-Storytellers-2023-q2SYGQ1yRVmh

Climate Storytellers 2023 Made with Qwilr by the Digital Storytellers team

As the sun begins to set on 2022, we have an important question for you…

WHAT HAS BEEN THE STORY OF YOUR 2022?

Has it been a story of grit and resilience?
Of anguish and triumph?
Of survival and courage?
Of freedom and creativity?
Of the highest highs and some low lows?

Who are the major players?
The key places your year took place?
What about the key messages or learnings you could share?
And how are you planning on sharing them?

We would love to know!

Tell the story of your 2022 in less than five words in the comments…

We’ll go first: still here, telling impact stories.

#2022

One way we measure how well we’re doing as an organisation is by how well YOU are telling that matter.

We know it might seem kind of unorthodox to hitch our wagon to something we can’t entirely control, but we believe in the power of story so much that we are willing to take that exquisite risk.

Because story is more than a tool for .

Story is a way to connect and form identity, meaning and .

And the ability to find, shape and share a cohesive and galvanising is a critically sought after and time-honoured skill, particularly in the current world we live in.

What do you think is story’s greatest application for changing the world?

Have you heard about Love Stories for Business?

It is a new, unique program for leaders seeking strategies to connect their people to purpose and identity, in partnership with The Cause Effect.

Earlier this month, we held a webinar on the program, as well as a simple and powerful framework to bring your Brand Story together.

Catch up here!
https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/love-stories-for-business-webinar/

Are you ready to salute your year, story-style?

LAUNCHING our new Story Mapping tool — designed to help you your Collective Story by guiding you through your field of stories.

Curious to hold a collective story session in December with your team to reflect on the year? Get in touch!

https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/story-mapping/

#2022

It's been a loooooong year, and you don't need an excuse to kick your heels (or crocs) up… BUT!

If you really want one — bring your team to the end of the year with Sydney's social impact makers at the on Gadigal Land in Sydney.

Grab your tickets! https://events.humanitix.com/impact-story-lab-sydney-x-mas-party

Impact Story Lab Sydney Xmas Party , Darlinghurst, Thu 15th Dec 2022, 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm AEDT | Humanitix The Digital Storytellers warmly invite you to an end-of-year celebration for people having a social impact in NSW. A night of connection and celebration in the Impact Story Lab Sydney. The Impact Story Lab Sydney is a space for impact storytellers to find, make and share their stories. The City of S...

With the festival season starting up and gift-giving in full swing, this time of year is a great opportunity to not only give a meaningful gift, but also support local organisations at the same time!

Purchasing a gift for a loved one from an Australian social enterprise doesn’t just mean a great gift! It also means planting trees, increasing wellbeing programs, supporting First Nations artists and increasing employment to those with disabilities.

Here are a handful of businesses Social Chnage Central have listed to get you started in making a real difference this Christmas!

https://www.socialchangecentral.com/the-perfect-gift-australian-social-enterprises-to-support-this-christmas/

The Perfect Gift: Australian Social Enterprises to Support this Christmas - Social Change Central It’s certainly snuck up on us but the time is here: holiday gift giving is soon approaching and now’s the time to start planning and purchasing. Fortunately, combining value-driven shopping with supporting local organisations has never been easier! Here are our favourite Australian social enterp...

Just like yours, we are continuing to evolve as an organisation so that we can best rise to the challenges of our time.

It’s not always easy (far from it most of the time), but we have worked hard this year to develop a series of story-tools and processes to support you to tell more that matter in the hope (and the experience) that impactful stories create more meaningful realities.

These free tools are designed to enable you to take story further in your work and embrace the edgecraft of , for:

✨ Resilience and team connection
✨ Shared sensemaking and way-finding
✨ Igniting (re)imagination, purpose and shared vision, among other things

So, whether you are a in community, public service, a business or at the level, we hope you'll join us in embracing the power of story for deeper and change.

Visit our free resources and let us know how you go!
https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/category/story-tools-resources/

Proud to see one of our foundational team members, Julia Lorsch speaking on and at SAP upcoming .

Tickets are free, grab yours here:
https://events.sap.com/au/sap-spend-connect-forum/en/home

Spend Connect Forum SAP Spend Connect Forum - one day in-person experiential event joining a community of leaders to reflect, rethink and being resilient about key topics that are impacting our businesses. You will engage with inspiring business leaders, change catalyst agents and iconic brands as they discuss innovati...

In case you missed it, we recently ran an introductory webinar for "Love Stories For Business", an exciting new program we've co-developed with Carolyn Butler-Madden of The Cause Effect to help organisations harness the full power of purposeful to empower their people and meet the challenges of our time.

How, you ask?

Watch the webinar recording to find out!
https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/love-stories-for-business-webinar/

We share:
- The importance of coherent, inspiring storytelling, in attracting like-minded stakeholders
- The three key themes behind purposeful storytelling.
- The three key components of story .
- A simple and powerful framework to bring your together.

Most importantly, there is an opportunity for 3 organisations to participate in the pilot at a special price (commitments before 15 Dec). Drop us a line if you are interested. And do tag or pass the word on to anyone this might interest.

Find out more at:
https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/love-stories-for-business-webinar/

‘More global than we’ve ever been’.

This 💎 from Hélène Malandain, Chair of Social Enterprise World Forum, is one of many captured by our friends at Social Change Central and Social Impact Hub from .

If you’re hungry for more memorable quotes and reflections. Check it out here:
https://www.socialchangecentral.com/social-enterprise-world-forum-2022-quotes-insights-reflections/

Are you heading to Enspiral's upcoming online gathering?

This four day online event will have talks, workshops and connection sessions running across all timezones from Nov 29th to Dec 2nd, 2022.

Featuring plenty of inspiration and actionable tips for anyone interested in organising, organisational and more ways of working, send us a DM for a 15% off discount code!

https://www.doing.betterworktogether.co/

Home | DBWT Online Event How we work deeply affects our quality of life, sense of purpose and potential to create positive impact. At Doing Better Work Together we will explore and experience tools and methods for transforming how we work together.

Want nine wonderful ways to weave stories more effectively into the fabric of your organisation? Read the latest on the blog.

https://www.digitalstorytellers.com.au/blog-how-to-weave-more-stories-into-your-work/

Photo by ALAN DE LA CRUZ on Unsplash

Activating culture and purpose. Is there anything better?

What a stunning quote by the magnificent and powerful Mary Anne Quiroz, who founded and runs the organisation Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, a space for practising indigenous arts, culture, and activism.

In a recent talk for CreativeMornings in Minneapolis, she shares how she performs traditional Mexican Aztec dance to express solidarity with activists like those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

You are meant to be here.

We are totally still buzzing from the Social Enterprise World Forum a few weeks ago in Meeanjin.

Want to relive some of the magic? Here’s our 📽️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av6ohLzREs4

SEWF22: Closing Video It's a wrap! After a week long program of events, SEWF2022 week in Brisbane draws to a close. This video was created by the folks at Digital Storytellers in ...

As businesses, we are being called to show up in more human ways right now.

We must harness the full power of purposeful to empower our people and meet the challenges of our time.

But how do you do that? In this exciting new with Carolyn Butler Madden from The Cause Effect — Love Stories for Business — we will be sharing:

The importance of coherent, inspiring storytelling, in attracting like-minded stakeholders
The three key themes behind purposeful storytelling.
The three key components of story .
A simple and powerful framework to bring your together.

Sound like something you’re curious about?

Tickets are free to our introductory on Tuesday 8 November →
https://events.humanitix.com/love-stories-for-business-webinar

Love Stories for Business Webinar, Hosted online, Tue 8th Nov 2022, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm AEDT | Humanitix “Love Stories for Business” is a new, unique program for leaders seeking strategies to connect their people to their brand purpose and their unique organisational identity. This program brings together three organisational imperatives that will separate future-ready companies from the pack: Uniq...