What is ethical storytelling and why should you care?
The stories you tell, and the way you tell them, shape the way people see your charity. Sharing real, authentic stories in a compassionate way creates connection with your audiences’ hearts and minds. They help explain your charity’s work in a way that feels personal and memorable. But telling people’s personal stories comes with great responsibility, particularly where someone has experienced trauma.
This session will look at what legal and non-legal responsibilities come with storytelling.
This can be delivered online or in the room. It is typically a half-day course but for a wider, cross-organisational planning day that might need more time set aside for review and reflection, it can be developed into a full-day session. The half-day course works well with the introduction to storytelling module as a full-day course.
Course content
- Principles of ethical storytelling: this session will explore the principles of ethical storytelling practice, including how to avoid extractive storytelling practice and what good co-creation looks like.
- Risk focused planning: we talk you through the practical steps you need to take to ensure your storytellers and advocates are fully informed at every step of the way and are kept safe and supported.
- Informed consent: what is informed consent and how to do it well.
- Mental health: sharing difficult stories is hard – for the storyteller and for those who gather them. We will look at how you can support your storytellers and yourself.
- Paying storytellers: things to think about when deciding whether to pay storytellers.