Learning Session: "Narrative Advocacy"

Deaconess is committed to leveraging all of our non-grant assets to complement our financial investments and provide nonprofit leaders and team members peer learning experiences and trainings to refine and strengthen our collective capacity to advance community well-being.
 
This learning opportunity is for nonprofit and organization team members interested in gaining a deeper understanding of storytelling in advocacy, public policy, and community organizing as well as digital storytelling. 
 
The Narrative Advocacy Workshop will focus on addressing the following points through teaching/assessment as well as experiential exercises that allow for a deeper understanding of the concepts:
  • Telling the story in advocacy, public policy & community organizing
    • Multimedia assessment
    • Media messaging
    • Communication & effectiveness of corporate branding
    • Personal responsibility in media messaging
    • Final takeaways
  • Digital storytelling
    • Advocacy communication best practices
    • Crisis communication best practices
    • Production practice
Facilitator: Dr. Imani M. Cheers, Interim Senior Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education Office of the Provost, Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University 
 
The workshop will be held in-person only at Deaconess Center, 1000 N. Vandeventer Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63113.
Monday, July 8, 2024 (9:30am - 4:30pm)
 
Based on capacity, we cannot guarantee that multiple people from one organization can attend.