What if the personal archives you’ve put away aren’t the end of a story—but the beginning of something you’ve yet to create?

Diving Into Your Archives is a series of digital storytelling workshops designed for women doing sixty and seventy who want to reflect on their lives and shape their legacy using personal archives—diaries, letters, journals, photographs, albums, and written memories collected over the decades.

Your archives are the raw materials of your life story. Through this guided workshop series, you’ll begin to shape your museum of self--a creative, personal collection of digital stories that reflect the depth and complexity of your lived experience.

For many of us, our words have been kept in the shadows–left tucked in journals, put away in boxes, saved in desktop files—our writing silenced by doubts about technology or self-worth. Whatever you’ve put aside—your notebooks on a shelf, your texts in a binder, your letters in a bin—these workshops invite you to reclaim your voice, embrace creativity, and connect your personal past to the present moment.

In our sixties and seventies, we are invited to distill our life experience into new forms of expression—and to see our own story in the light. Inspired by the work of thinkers like Steiner, Maslow, Campbell, and Jung, this process honors the rich potential for reflection and creative growth in later life.

Making a digital story is an act of self-discovery and reinvention.

More than just exploring digital tools—the process is about embracing your story, expressing yourself, and sharing your stories in a contemporary digital form.

Each workshop focuses on a theme and follows a simple step-by-step digital process—combining voice recordings, images or video, and music—to create a three-minute multimedia piece. If you’ve never made a digital story, each workshop explores a simple process to learn multimedia storytelling in a small group setting or one-to-one. No advanced tech skills required—just curiosity.

Take one stand-alone themed workshop to create your first digital story. Or join the full series to deepen your storytelling practice.

Your story is waiting.

Explore a theme below for the workshop purpose, prompt and collected three-minute digital stories.