Free public beta
· through December 31, 2026
Explore The Story Toolkit while we build.
The Story Toolkit is a collection of tools for finding, shaping, practicing, and telling stories drawn from your own experience.
It is for anyone with something to tell: at work, on a stage, in an interview, in a classroom, or around a kitchen table. No special background needed.
Right now, the entire Toolkit is available as a free public beta.
Start wherever you need.
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Find
Find the stories hiding in your experiences.
Guided reflections help you uncover stories through perspective, personal truths, turning points, unexpected twists, and memory prompts.
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Practice
Practice using stories, a few minutes at a time.
Work through short story-based practice activities designed to help you notice how stories create perspective, meaning, connection, and learning.
Useful for
Perform
Rehearse how a story sounds, feels, and connects when told aloud.
Rehearse the performance of a story using intention, beats, voice, body, emotional experience, and audience connection.
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In the works
Map
Find the experiences that show what you can do.
Shape
Shape the right experience into a strong interview story.
Free public beta · through December 31, 2026
The whole Toolkit is open and free while it grows, and in 2027 it becomes a membership for developing storytelling over time.
Read about the betaStory content stays in your browser unless you choose to share or export it. The tools are designed to save personal work locally rather than in a central Story Toolkit story database.
Clearing browser data may remove locally saved work, so export anything you want to keep.
The book
The Story Toolkit grew from the same principles explored in StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect: finding the stories already in your experience, understanding what makes them meaningful, shaping them with intention, and using them to create stronger connections.
The tools help you practice. The book helps you go deeper.
StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect
Hadiya Nuriddin
Also from Hadiya
People who have read StoryTraining often ask for examples rather than just polished stories, but examples that reveal how the thinking works before a story is finished. This book answers that need by turning the methodology into practical problems to solve, showing how stories can suffer from too much context, weak causality, unclear focal points, missing change, limited agency, forced morals, closed questions, or distracting delivery.
Facilitating with Story: The Makeover Book
Hadiya Nuriddin
StoryTraining tips
A little something to think about.
Know what you want the story to do before deciding how to tell it.