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Art of Storytelling

Tell stories that people can connect with.

Art of Storytelling

Tell stories that people can connect with.

An experience can stay with you for years, yet be difficult to put into words. Learn how to recognise the story within it, build a clear narrative and share it with honesty. This programme helps you turn personal experiences, professional lessons and everyday observations into stories for conversations, presentations and digital content.

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Art of Storytelling 8 Core Modules

"Find meaningful stories in your own experiences and learn how to shape and share them. Work on narrative structure, human detail and deliver..."

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Formats Live Online & In-Person
Curriculum Eight Core Modules
Learning Approach Guided Practice & Revision
Schedule & Fees Published with each confirmed batch
Core Philosophy

Your experience is the starting point

A useful story gives an audience something to recognise, understand or remember. In this programme, you will work with your own observations and experiences, explore what makes them relevant, and practise bringing them to life. The emphasis is on truthful details, clear structure and a purpose that belongs to the story. You choose what you are comfortable sharing; a story does not need to reveal something deeply personal to be meaningful.

Skills & Capabilities

What You Will Learn

Practical, repeatable capabilities developed through hands-on exercises.

Identify experiences that can become relevant personal or professional stories.

Build a story around context, tension, human detail, a turning point and meaning.

Choose details that help an audience picture a moment without embellishing facts.

Adapt one story for a conversation, presentation or short video.

Use pace, pauses and emphasis to support a spoken narrative.

Revise a draft using feedback on clarity, relevance and audience connection.

Who It's For

Designed for Diverse Communicators

Whether you are starting from scratch or refining an existing public voice.

Students and emerging professionals

Present experiences and ideas more clearly in discussions, interviews and presentations.

Founders and business professionals

Explain an origin, a customer lesson or a change through a relevant story.

Educators and facilitators

Use stories to make an idea easier to understand and discuss.

Creators and aspiring speakers

Develop narratives for videos, talks and personal reflections.

Community and social sector voices

Represent real experiences with attention to dignity, context and consent.

Curriculum Roadmap

Your Programme Curriculum

Eight modules take you from foundations to a final piece of practice work. Check the selected batch outline for the sequence, contact hours and depth included.

Key Topics Explored:
  • Story, anecdote and explanation
  • Audience and purpose
  • The central question a story helps answer
Practice Exercise: Bring a familiar incident and identify its person, change and meaning.

Key Topics Explored:
  • Observation and memory prompts
  • Turning points, decisions and lessons
  • Choosing what is yours to share
Practice Exercise: Create a story bank with five personal or professional moments and a one-line purpose for each.

Key Topics Explored:
  • Context and tension
  • Human detail and the turning point
  • Meaning without an added lecture
Practice Exercise: Develop an outline using five beats: context, tension, human detail, turn and meaning.

Key Topics Explored:
  • Scenes, actions and specific details
  • Dialogue and remembered speech
  • Emotion, restraint and accuracy
Practice Exercise: Rewrite one scene so the audience can picture it; flag any details that need verification.

Key Topics Explored:
  • Open questions and attentive listening
  • Separating a quotation from an interpretation
  • Permission, privacy and attribution
Practice Exercise: Prepare a short interview guide and create a story outline from an agreed practice conversation.

Key Topics Explored:
  • Stories in presentations and professional conversations
  • Short video and personal reflections
  • Relevance and a clear takeaway
Practice Exercise: Adapt the same story into a 60-second version and a three-minute version.

Key Topics Explored:
  • Voice, pace, pauses and emphasis
  • Openings and endings
  • Removing repetition and unnecessary explanation
Practice Exercise: Read or record a first version, then revise it after listening and receiving feedback.

Key Topics Explored:
  • Preparing a five-to-seven-minute story
  • Presenting to a practice audience
  • Reflecting on feedback and making a final revision
Practice Exercise: Present a personal or professional story and submit its revised outline or script.
Delivery Modes

Online & Offline Formats

Choose the learning rhythm that matches your schedule and location.

Live Online 4 weeks with 8 sessions of 90 minutes giving 12 contact hours

Live Online Cohort

Live online sessions combine demonstrations, story development, small-group practice and discussion. You will prepare drafts between sessions and practise telling your story through your own camera or microphone. The batch schedule will explain how feedback is organised.

  • Develop your story bank using guided prompts.
  • Share an outline or draft during scheduled practice.
  • Record a short version using a phone or laptop.
  • Revise your final story using the feedback provided.
In Person Workshop 1 day with 6 contact hours as a condensed story intensive

In-Person Workshop

In-person workshops use story circles, paired listening exercises and live narration. You can observe how a story lands in a room, work on delivery and revise your material through practice. The workshop outline will show which modules are covered and the depth of each activity.

  • Exchange stories in a facilitated story circle.
  • Practise listening and asking relevant questions.
  • Rehearse your narrative in front of a group.
  • Refine the opening, pacing and ending in the room.
Tangible Deliverables

Practical Work You Will Develop

You leave the programme with practical assets ready for use.

Story bank

Five story ideas with their audience and purpose.

Narrative outline

A complete outline for one chosen story.

Short adaptation

A 60-second spoken or video version.

Final story

A developed five-to-seven-minute narrative and a revised outline or script.

What to Bring

No prior storytelling or media experience is required. Bring a willingness to observe, write, listen and practise. For online learning, you will need a phone or laptop with a working microphone, camera and reliable internet access. You may use a fictional practice scenario when you prefer to keep an experience private.

Feedback & Completion

Practice feedback focuses on structure, relevance, specificity, truthfulness and delivery. Your final story helps you see how these elements work together. Completion and certificate requirements, where offered, will be stated with the confirmed batch.

Batch Enrolment Information

Art of Storytelling

Eight curriculum modules. Guided practice and revision. Choose your preferred format (Live online or In-person workshop). Dates, fees, language and faculty will be shared with confirmed batch details before enrolment.

Interest registration is free and reserves priority access when batches open.
Register Your Interest

Give a meaningful experience a story worth sharing.

Explore the curriculum, choose how you would like to learn and register your interest in the next suitable batch.

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Questions & Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Clear details about prerequisites, formats, languages and feedback.

No. The programme begins with finding a story and shaping it. You will practise writing and speaking in manageable steps.

No. You can work on a professional lesson, a founder story, an educational example or an everyday observation, as well as a personal experience.

You choose what you share. Everyday experiences and agreed practice scenarios can provide useful material.

Share your language preference when registering. The teaching and practice language for each batch will be confirmed before enrolment.

Online learning supports development and practice between sessions. Offline workshops emphasise live story circles and delivery in a room. Check the published batch outline for the modules and contact hours included.

The programme includes practice and revision. The batch details will specify who provides feedback, which submissions are reviewed and whether feedback is individual or in a group.

Yes. Register your interest and preferred format. The team can share suitable batch details when they are available.
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