Youth Mental Health & Storyteller Wellbeing
Digital storytelling can do something regular conversation often cannot: it creates a safe container for difficult truth. On Co-Created, host Kristy Wolfe talks with lived experience leader Caitlin Greer about how a short, voiceover-driven film can carry stories of youth mental health, child abuse and neglect, and foster care without forcing the storyteller to perform their pain on demand. When a digital story uses personal images, careful editing, and a tightly written script, the listener gets clarity and emotional honesty, while the creator keeps control over pacing, privacy, and what gets shared. That balance is at the heart of trauma-informed storytelling and why digital storytelling workshops can be so powerful for healing, advocacy, and systems change.
Isolation to Impact: DST in Cancer Care
Stories change systems because they change people. That truth sits at the heart of our conversation with Jack Bones, a transgender cancer survivor who used digital storytelling to transform a personal ordeal into a tool for empathy and training within healthcare. Jack’s journey began with a politicized identity, a late-stage diagnosis, and a decision to speak even when silence felt safer. In the workshop, Jack distilled a broad call for systemic change into one vivid moment: a biopsy appointment where bias met resistance, and a single act of human connection shifted everything. By focusing on a specific scene rather than an abstract argument, the story invites viewers to feel the stakes of dignity in care and to see how small gestures can influence life-or-death decisions. It’s advocacy through intimacy, and it works.