TRAINING & CONSULTANCY
We provide bespoke one to one or group mentoring, training and consultancy to NGOs, practitioners, cultural and educational institutions, schools or community groups tailored to meet your needs.
* Bespoke training can be delivered in English, French or Spanish. Face- to-face or online training and troubleshooting, gathering different countries globally.
PROJECT CONSULTATION & MENTORING
Do you want to use participatory visual methods within your work, research or project and you need advice and guidance?
We design, manage and deliver projects working with participatory visual methods for community development and engagement, research, evaluation, advocacy, communications, inclusion and healing for staff or practitioner from training to strategic planning and ethical practice
Tailored supervision to individual practitioners or staff using photovoice and participatory visual projects through online sessions delivered over extended periods
Face to face or online
AUDIOVISUAL SKILLS FOR BETTER COMMS
If you want your organisation and project to look reliable, trustworthy and professional, your branding and visual images need to be outstanding and meet professional standards.
We understand that some of you can not afford to commission a professional photographer/videographer each time but we can provide you the basic necessary knowledge and tips to enable to create better images and sound with consistency.
Basic photography /video/ sound / interviews skills
Equipment advise according to your needs
Basic photo/video/sound editing
File management
Consent and ethics
PARTICIPATORY VISUAL METHODS TRAINING
Are you a community organiser, an photographer, a researcher, an NGO staff, educator, development or social worker, a student or a therapist?
We deliver tailored training in photovoice, participatory photography and participatory visual methods which would include:
Facilitation skills
Basic photography skills and visual literacy
Ethics and consent process & risk assessment
Project design, strategy and planning, workshop design and delivery, problem-solving and key lessons
Exhibition curation & dissemination
Face to face or online
CHANGING NARRATIVES TO ETHICAL AND DIGNIFIED STORYTELLING
How to provide a fair and ethical representation of the communities and issues you work with? These stories should serve the communities.
Have you thought about the impact that the harm that the publication of a story could have on the community or person?
Is the person you are portraying aware of where the story will be published? Do they have a say in the editing of the images and text?
Are they passive subjects or active collaborators?Why are you telling that story?
So many questions to take into consideration. This is why we are part of the Dignified Storytelling Alliance to be part of the ethical conversation and share them with you.
LEARNING THROUGH IMAGE MAKING
Do you want to find new ways of engaging with pupils and students in your classrooms?
We provide training in:
ESOL & Photography
Numeracy Through Photography for Key Stage 2-3
Literacy Through Photography from Reception Class
Intro of Learning Through Photography and filmmaking
Bespoke training in how to use photography and images in your teaching practice tailored to your age group, curriculum, subject, to the logistic limitations of your school, and to your time
Face to face or online
CONSENT PROCESS FOR USE/NON-USE OF IMAGES
Consent is a process, not a one-time event.
Do you explain to people that they own their stories?
Sometimes people change their minds. Sometimes their situation changes, and using their story may put them in danger.
What informed consent process do you use?
We can support you in
reflecting and revisiting your consent practice,
designing consent forms in different formats,
thinking about the ethics and risks of story gathering.