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The Storytelling Masterclass
A self-paced course on advocacy storytelling from My Fairy GodParents: how to find a true story, gather real consent, record and edit it well, and turn it into change — taught for youth, caregivers, and the organizations that serve them.
- Modules
- 8 lessons
- Reading time
- About 103 minutes total
- Format
- Written lessons, scripts, and exercises
Your progress
Create a free account and your completed modules save to your MFGP profile, so the course follows you across devices.
Sign in or create an accountWritten and produced by My Fairy GodParents. The Storytelling Masterclass is educational. It is not legal, clinical, or media-law advice, and it does not guarantee placement, funding, or policy outcomes. When a story involves a minor, a court matter, or a safety risk, work with a qualified professional before publishing.
The eight modules
Work through them in order the first time. Each module is a full lesson with examples, word-for-word scripts, a checklist, and one practice exercise.
Module 1 · Foundations
Why your story matters
What advocacy storytelling is, what it changes, and why a first-person story moves people that data alone cannot reach.
12 min Free previewOpenModule 2 · Ethics
Consent, care, and story ownership
How to gather real consent, hold it as something revisited rather than signed once, and keep a young person the owner of their own story.
14 minPreviewModule 3 · Craft
Finding the story only you can tell
How to choose one true moment instead of summarizing a whole life, and how to find the version of it you can tell without harm.
12 minPreviewModule 4 · Craft
Interviewing with care
How to ask questions that open a story without prying it out of someone, and what to do when an interview goes somewhere hard.
14 minPreviewModule 5 · Production
Recording basics on the phone you already own
Light, sound, framing, and backup — the small number of production choices that decide whether a story is watchable.
13 minPreviewModule 6 · Craft
Shaping the edit: structure, pacing, and truth
How to assemble a story that holds attention while staying accurate — and where editing quietly turns into distortion.
13 minPreviewModule 7 · Ethics
Sharing safely: platforms, permissions, and pulling back
Where a story lives after you publish it, what you can and cannot take back, and how to plan for the response before it arrives.
12 minPreviewModule 8 · Advocacy
Turning story into action: media, funders, and policy
How a finished story becomes a pitch, a funding case, and testimony — without turning the person in it into a case study.
13 minPreview
Who this is for
- Youth ages 12–24 — including justice-impacted youth — telling their own story
- Caregivers deciding what a family shares publicly, and what it protects
- Nonprofits, schools, and agencies that platform other people's stories
- Filmmakers and journalists working with justice-impacted families
Enrollment
Module 1 is free for everyone. The full course unlocks on your MFGP account the moment your Storytelling Masterclass purchase completes — standard and nonprofit rates are both in the store.
Related: the #FKLMdoc storytelling work
Free storytelling prompts, templates, and consent guidance