Master a century of narrative excellence in our onsite, Explorer-led workshops. We help your team craft authentic, high-impact stories—whether you’re swaying a donor or winning project buy-in—using the same techniques that move the world.
Give your organization’s mission a fresh spin with the Storytellers Collective. Our immersive, hands-on workshops bring National Geographic Explorers directly to your office to share the unique storytelling practices used to create our world-class content.
Through a custom 1- or 3-day intensive, your team works live with our experts to develop their own stories in real-time. We don't just teach theory; we help you build the authentic, compelling narratives needed to drive meaningful change.
Faculty
The Modern Storytellers
Much like our ancestors telling stories around a communal fire, Explorers come back from their sojourns with a tale to tell. Unlike legends of yore, their stories are grounded in scientific fact but told with as much heart as ever.
Suzanne Mr. Brent Jacobs Middleton
Explorer
Every year, Monarch butterflies embark on an epic migration of over 2500 miles, flying routes between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The butterflies face enormous environmental threats that impact their extraordinary life cycle, from loss of habitat to scarcity of food, and may soon be listed as Endangered. Explorer Jaime Rojo is documenting the Monarchs’ journey to inspire action to protect the butterflies and their habitat. About Jaime Rojo
Jahawi Bertolli
Underwater Photographer
Imagine what music was like 50,000 years ago—how would it sound today? Explorer Jahawi Bertolli’s First Rock project merges recordings of ancient rock gongs with sounds of nature, shining a light on cultures and environments that we are at risk of losing. Jahawi wants to preserve and create awareness about this ancient music form by blending the rock gong sounds and his own compositions.
Malaika Vaz
Film Maker
Explorer Malaika Vaz’s documentary, Sacrifice Zone, investigates the global impact of extractive industries—oil, gas, plastic, and fast-fashion—on communities of color in India, Colombia, Bangladesh, and the U.S. The film shifts the narrative from consumer guilt to corporate accountability, examining the link between racial inequity and environmental exploitation. By exploring the nexus of corporate and government power, it shines a light on frontline communities fighting for justice.
Lujan Agusti
Visual Storyteller
Explorer Luján Agusti is a visual storyteller based in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. For the past eight years, she has been working on the connections that communities around the world have with their peatlands. This project is a starting point for exploring human interactions with less hegemonic ecosystems that have been historically mistreated, despite their importance to our livelihood on this planet.
Prasenjeet Yadav
Photographer
For over a century, India has led global tiger conservation, doubling its tiger populations. But hunting and growing human settlements have cost tigers most of their historic range and isolated them in small areas that are not connected with other tiger populations. Explorer Prasenjeet Yadav is documenting the story of six “tiger islands” in India, showing the importance of connectivity and genetic diversity to ensure the tigers' future.
Laurel Cho
Journalist
Explorer Laurel Chor is a journalist, photographer, filmmaker, and rugby player from Hong Kong. Her work explores people’s relationships with nature, society, and culture. She is interested in individuals’ embodied experiences of the global forces that affect these relationships, from conflict and disease to climate change. Through her storytelling, she hopes to remind people of their shared—and interconnected—vulnerability, power, and humanity.
"I am convinced that this unusual time in our collective history shows that humans are undeniably interrelated with nature and that a human population in balance depends on a planet in balance."
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