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Common Language DST Level 2 Certified Facilitator

 
 

What Is A Digital Story?

A digital story is both a process and a product. The process of Digital Storytelling includes unique facilitation components, skills, and techniques that help participants create meaningful digital story about their life. The product is a short 3-5 minute film, (digital story), that combines visuals, a voiceover, and music put together with video editing techniques that is unique to the individuals life story. As a certified CLDST Level 2 Digital Storytelling Facilitator, I run individual and group workshops that guide people through the process of creating this short film.

Research shows that creating a digital story with a trained facilitator benefits both the storyteller and the audience. With this trauma informed approach, digital storytelling can be grouped into these four areas of wellness.

  1. Education and quality improvement

  2. Advocacy/public health

  3. Research (knowledge generation & translation)

  4. Therapeutic intervention

How Does the Digital Storytelling Facilitation Process Work?

I work collaboratively with storytellers to craft an impactful narrative from real moments that have formed their life. We write a 300-500 word story, record a voice over, select personal or stock images, and add music. When complete a screening is planned to share the digital story with a chosen audience.

Creating a story together is a meaningful process of reflection on the diverse life experiences that bring us to today. At the foundation of this process is an ethical framework that puts the storyteller’s wellbeing at the forefront.

Watch Weightless: Stories of Cannabis Harm Reduction (mini-documentary) that follows our in-person workshop with youth and cannabis harm reduction.

What Can We do with a Digital Story?

A powerful tool for education, research, advocacy, and therapeutic experience. These are just some of the ways that a digital story can be of use:

  • Amplify diverse voices from your community

  • Capture oral histories

  • Understand through lived experience

  • Engage with your stakeholders

  • Document a life story for your family

A sample of digital stories Krystle has facilitated

 

A sample of digital storytelling Workshops

The personal experiences shared in this screening were part of a digital storytelling workshop funded by BC Complex Kids Society to provide an opportunity for families to share diverse lived experiences. Lead Facilitator, Krystle Schofield, Co-Facilitator Kristy Wolfe. Watch the full playlist.

In Spring 2024, nine young adults came together in a Digital Storytelling workshop to create short films exploring their experiences with cannabis use and harm reduction. Each story highlights a meaningful moment in their journey with cannabis, concluding with practical harm reduction principles. This project was a partnership between Dr. Rebecca Saah and Dr. Mike Lang from the University of Calgary, co-facilitated by Krystle Schofield. Watch the full playlist.

This is one of two workshops funded by Disrupting Death; An examination of Canadian experiences with medical assistance in dying (MAiD) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). These stories share candid details about accompanying someone who chose MAiD at the end of life. Please be gentle with yourself while viewing. Lead Facilitator, Dr. Mike Lang, Co-Facilitator Krystle Schofield. Watch the full playlist.

Learn More About My services:

  • Digital Story Co-Creation (working one-on-one)

  • Digital Storytelling Workshops (group facilitation)

  • Documentary Photography for Digital Stories