A narrative pathway within Creative Wellbeing & Participation

Storytelling & Expression is a community-based creative pathway for young people who may benefit from supported communication, storytelling, self-expression and inclusive participation. It offers accessible ways to explore voice, identity, authorship and connection through tactile, visual, sensory and digital methods.

This pathway welcomes participants with disability, AAC users, verbal participants, and young people with diverse communication, sensory, mobility or support needs. Storytelling is used as a flexible method for communication, identity expression, authorship and social participation.

What this pathway offers

• Accessible storytelling through tactile, visual, sensory and digital methods
• Open to AAC users, verbal participants and different communication styles
• Low-pressure entry points into narrative, expression and authorship
• Structured, community-based sessions that support social participation

About the pathway

Within Kosmovision’s wider creative wellbeing framework, this pathway uses storytelling as a flexible method for communication, identity expression, authorship and participation. Sessions may combine tactile, visual, sensory, object-based, performative and digital methods so that participants can engage in ways that are appropriate to their communication profile, preferred modes of expression and level of support.

The emphasis is not on technical mastery or formal media training, but on creating accessible opportunities for participants to communicate in multiple ways, develop stories and characters, express preferences and identity, and contribute to shared creative outcomes.

How sessions may work in practice

• Morning sharing space using AAC, gesture, eye gaze, speech, objects, visuals or supported communication
• Creative warm-up through low-demand sensory, visual, object-based or image-based invitations
• Structured story activity supporting character-making, sequencing, scene-building or multimodal narrative development
• Everyday participation through breaks, transitions, requests for help, turn-taking and supported decision-making
• Reflection and documentation through photos, short clips, screenshots, captions or simple artist/story panels

Methods used across the pathway

• Puppet and object storytelling
• Stop motion and visual sequence
• Sensory storytelling through sound, textures, mood and objects
• Character, world and shared scene creation
• Accessible digital storytelling tools such as Pictello, Canva, Book Creator and simple stop motion apps

What participants may explore

• Communication through multiple modes, including AAC, gesture, visual, sensory and digital forms
• Identity expression and symbolic representation
• Sequencing, cause and effect, and narrative development
• Confidence, authorship and supported decision-making
• Social connection through shared storytelling
• Belonging, visibility and participation in group processes

What this pathway helps support

• Communication and expression
• Identity expression and symbolic representation
• Sequencing and narrative awareness
• Confidence and authorship
• Belonging and social participation
• Visibility and shared creative outcomes

NDIS information

Suitable for self-managed or plan-managed participants. Sessions may be invoiced under the participant’s relevant NDIS funding category for social and community participation, depending on individual goals and plan arrangements.

Program dates: 8 May – 18 December 2026
Ongoing small-group program
Fridays | 9:00am – 2:00pm
Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre

Enquiries and expressions of interest

For enquiries or expressions of interest, please contact: contact@kosmovision.org.au