Digital Storytelling & Media Literacy for Youth Engagement

This training empowered youth workers to engage young people through storytelling and digital storytelling using accessible media tools. Participants learned story structures, interviewing techniques, ethical consent, and the creation of short formats such as reels, photo stories, and podcasts. A strong media-literacy component supported critical thinking by countering misinformation, recognizing manipulation, and building respectful narratives that amplified underrepresented voices. Participants left with publish-ready stories and a toolkit for conducting local workshops.Through methods like story circles, scripting labs, phone-based production, editing clinics, and peer review, they developed skills in storytelling, narrative design, and audience engagement. The training also emphasized ethical content creation, including consent, privacy, safeguarding, and representation. Ultimately, participants produced a local digital storytelling workshop plan and sample outputs, culminating in a digital story portfolio, facilitation guide, consent templates, and a dissemination plan.