Intensive training designed to elevate your interviewing and storytelling capabilities through structured practice and expert guidance.
This foundational program covers the essential techniques for conducting effective interviews. You'll learn how to prepare productive questions, establish rapport quickly, and guide conversations to reveal deeper insights. The curriculum includes practical exercises in active listening, follow-up questioning, and managing difficult subjects.
Duration: Two full-day sessions with a maximum of 12 participants to ensure personalized attention.
Learn to build story arcs that engage audiences from opening to conclusion. This workshop examines how to identify the core narrative within complex information, structure material for maximum impact, and maintain momentum throughout longer pieces. Participants work with real content from their own projects.
Duration: Three half-day sessions spread over consecutive weeks, allowing time to apply concepts between meetings.
For experienced interviewers looking to refine their approach to challenging conversations. This advanced program addresses techniques for sensitive topics, managing defensive subjects, working with limited time constraints, and extracting information from reluctant sources without compromising ethical standards.
Duration: Three full-day sessions with extensive role-play scenarios and individualized coaching.
Narrative techniques vary across print, audio, video, and interactive formats. This program teaches you to adapt your storytelling approach based on medium-specific constraints and opportunities. Learn how the same core story should be structured differently for a podcast versus a written article versus a video piece.
Duration: Four half-day sessions, each focusing on a different medium with hands-on production exercises.
Specific training for podcast hosts and producers. This program covers interview techniques optimized for audio formats, maintaining conversational flow while guiding toward meaningful content, microphone technique, and post-production considerations that affect how you conduct the original conversation.
Duration: Two full-day sessions with studio access for recorded practice interviews.
An immersive program combining interview skills with long-form narrative construction. Learn to identify compelling stories within larger topics, conduct pre-interviews for documentary research, and structure extended narratives that maintain audience engagement across significant runtime.
Duration: Five full-day sessions including field exercises and final project presentations.