Ethical storytelling

In a world inundated with information, nonprofit organizations face the unique challenge of capturing the hearts and minds of their audiences to drive meaningful engagement and support for their work. In this three hour workshop, participants will learn the fundamental building blocks and principles of ethical organizational storytelling and how to employ it within their organization and externally. Attendees will learn the storytelling tools needed to connect deeply with stakeholders, inspire action, foster empathy, and generate lasting impact. They will also learn essential building blocks of creating effective social impact stories and how to balance storytelling authenticity with responsible narrative framing that centers the individuals and organizations involved.

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About the presenter:

Lacy Alana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, corporate trainer, multidisciplinary artist, and creator of The Yes And Brain framework. As Lacy spent time in the clinical, educational, corporate, and expressive arts worlds over the last decade, she recognized that she was having great success blending facets from each discipline into the others.

When colleagues asked her to teach them tools to mimic her work, she developed the Yes And Brain framework to serve as a foundational framework for work in each setting. Over the years, The Yes And Brain Model has continued to be refined, with specialized sub-models and training pathways for many different populations.

Lacy has a varied professional history, including working in the corporate world (with a business/advertising degree), providing corporate trainings and keynotes, running specialized circus and improv theatre programs for neurodivergent and at-risk youth, training educators/helping professionals/medical professionals, and working as a psychotherapist. Lacy provides one-of-a-kind trainings that fuse Interpersonal Neurobiology, therapeutic frameworks, business communication, and pedagogy from improvisational theatre and the circus arts.

Please note Nonprofit Austin reserves the right to postpone this learning opportunity if there is inadequate registration.