Storytelling for EU Youth Alumni: From Experience to Influence

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Storytelling is more than sharing what happened—it’s how you shape meaning, build trust, and move people to action. In this session, EU Youth Alumni will explore how personal experience can become a clear, engaging narrative that strengthens your voice, amplifies your work, and helps you connect with the right audiences across contexts and platforms.

Why do it?
You’ve got stories that deserve to be heard. This workshop helps you transform your experiences into powerful narratives that connect, inspire, and influence—whether you’re speaking to your community, engaging partners, or representing your work in wider spaces 🌍. Learn how to tell your story in a way that opens doors, builds bridges, and creates opportunities 🤝🚀.

What you will learn 📚
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Structure personal experiences into compelling narratives with clear messages 🧩
• Adapt storytelling techniques across different platforms and formats (spoken, written, social media, presentations) 📲📝
• Use storytelling strategically to build networks, advocate for causes, and create influence 🌱📣

Meet the expert: Thandie Ramme 🌟

Thandie is an Associate in the Alumni Engagement team at the African Leaders’ Academy (ALA). She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester, majoring in International Relations with a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.

Before joining ALA, Thandie gained experience through internships at the European Union in Belgium and the House of Commons in the UK, and later worked full-time at Paychex in Rochester, New York. Born in Molepolole, Botswana, she brings both global exposure and local grounding to her work. Outside of ALA, she enjoys reading, photography, and traveling 📚📷✈️.

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📝 Register here

This workshop is part of the EU Youth Alumni capacity-building training series (January–April 2026)—a structured learning journey bringing together alumni of EU-funded youth programmes across developing countries. Through expert-led, interactive online sessions, the series strengthens practical skills and cross-border connections, helping alumni stay engaged beyond individual projects and grow their impact as active citizens and community leaders 🤝✨. The modules are designed using non-formal education methods and support alumni to develop competences they can apply immediately in their local work 📚🎯. Find out more about the capacity-building training-series here.

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