Thank you for expressing interest in our work. This page has information about how to do a basic booking with us, and our portfolio as Digital Story Works.

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Mentorship. Storytelling. Results.

An affordable, high-impact way to build your online presence while mentoring local youth in digital storytelling. They need to learn how to share their story.

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💡 What’s in it for You?

Looking for affordable support the elevates youth at the same time?

✅ Receive professional-level content creation support

✅ Work with a mentored youth intern (paid through your fee)
✅ Get engaging, real-time digital content that connects with your audience
✅ Build trust online, grow your reach, and see results

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💰 3 Month Trial: $550/m

• Pays a local youth intern
• Covers tools like course subscriptions and our training we offer free to youth
• Jamie Black  mentors youth at no cost to them — because this matters

Let’s talk if you want to contribute more (cash or collaboration welcome).

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🛠️ How It Works

Jamie Black and fellow mentors support youth ages 15-30 as they learn to craft effective online stories that generate real results—whether that’s increased engagement or higher sales.

Our focus is on genuine digital engagement:

• Simple, effective strategies
• Real conversations
• Community-building
• Adding value and following leads

Jamie personally attends all initial meetings to establish a clear direction, then gradually steps back to give interns the opportunity to develop confidence and ownership in their work.

With your support and patience, Jamie guides each intern through the key aspects of self-employment, including:

• Task management
• Timeliness and accountability
• Communication skills
• Creative storytelling

You’ll start with a 2–3 hour onboarding session, and from there, most of the collaboration happens online—flexible, efficient, and supportive.

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A Message from our Founder

Hello, my name is Jamie Black. I have been an entrepreneur in the same field of outdoor play with Wild Craft Play for over 20 years. With 3 years in school in Tourism Management, then challenged my degree to get my MA in Environmental Education and Communication and I am professional coach and guide, I have come to understand that I am here to help people tell their story in creative ways.

Keeping a sole proprietor afloat, even through Covid, is a feat for sure, so adapting to the climate, and becoming resourceful is what builds resilience (among other things.)

Over the years I have held many contracts, and personal initiatives to teach young people how to be a digital storyteller, because this is a fast and free way to promote yourself, and I have seen first hand that young people aren’t taught how important it is to share your story, in order to thrive. I have also met many people in the valley who could benefit from a more affordable option for better results in online storytelling. I haven’t seen many options that are affordable and produce results. So I figure this initiative would be a win win.

Now that I have been in the Comox Valley for a few years, I thought I would offer my support again to young people to learn these skills, and small businesses to expand your market.

Digital StoryWorks is a new initiative built from 20 years in the field as a mentor, guide and coach.

With your payment of $550/m for a 3 month test run, you are paying for the employment of a young adult who is learning/mastering the skills of digital storytelling, and covering some basic costs like online courses (we pay a fee for monthly), and other tools, like this app, Earth Guides, which we pay monthly for as well to host private and confidential conversations like this.

If you do wish to make a larger contribution, let’s talk, this can be financially, but it could also be with cross-promotional tactics and other things.

🧭 Why This Works

Young people today have incredible potential, but few opportunities to practice the real-world skills they need — especially in digital marketing. You get support. They get experience. It’s a win–win.

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🧰 Jamie’s Portfolio: Success Stories

1. Rotary Youth Leadership Camp Nov 14-16 2025

3 Youth from the Youth Media Project in the Comox Valley attended the RYLA Camp in Cowichan. We captured footage from the entire event with high quality cameras.

Learned the art of effective documenting, interviews and being invisible during events.

Footage captured will be used for a documentary and future promo for Rotary.

See examples here:

1. Wild Craft Play – Since 2004

Outdoor education meets creative storytelling. Grew a committed audience of 500+ email subscribers and 600+ Facebook members with no ad spend.
🧭 Visit Links:

Past events on Facebook – go ahead, take a peak at what we write, and #’s in attendance (you have to know that facebook isn’t an accurate account of actual numbers)

We believe that emailing is THE FASTEST and most trusted way to communicate with people who believe in us, so we use Kit.com as a platform for emails. With over 500 committed members at present, and no advertising to join.

Private Facebook Group of over 600 members. We also believe in the power of a private group. Have a peak at our private group (you will have to request access). CLICK HERE.

Jamie Black Hummingbird’s Personal Influencer Page, we learned that we get THE MOST action as a person, so we put everything on our page, and share other peoples pages and events all the time. Highly recommend this.

Diverse Images. We believe in the theory of posting anything and everything, with some branding, but the intention is to reach as many different people as possible. Branding and color schemes aren’t necessarily going to reach more people. More types of images will.

Finally our website www.wildcraftplay.com think of a website as a library, where you send people to specific pages to access what you intend them to access. We even have some landing pages on there that do not have the header, to help the interested party find what we want them to see.

2. Wild Minecraft FUNraiser – 2025

Youth-led digital adventure + real-world quests. 2 teens raised awareness and funds by blending Minecraft with nature on a 60-acre site.
📣 Check out the story »

Wild Minecraft FUNraiser: Youth-Led Tech Meets Nature Adventure

Launched: 2025
Location: Comox Valley + Global Access via Minecraft

We wanted to give you a glimpse of how we do this work in real time.

Right now, we have 2 youth, ages 14 and 15, who have invented a FUNraiser called Wild Minecraft.

Here is the email we sent to our members – analyze the way the email is written, click on the links to see how they work, how it makes you feel, what you might think needs to be done in the back-end to make this a success.

Here are the results within 1 minute:

Here are the results by day 3:

Here is the event page on Earth Guides

Having anyone click and open within 1 day is a lot, let alone a 25% open rate. This means that people care about what we do.

3. Body Talk: Youth Voice in Motion – 2015–2017

Dance + dialogue + media mentorship with Crimson Coast Dance Society. Over $100K in funding, full retention, and strong digital reach.
🎥 View highlights upon request.

Impact

✅ Over $100,000 in government investment
✅ Annual renewal of funding based on outcomes
✅ High audience engagement both in-person and online
✅ Full workshop retention

✅ Multiple sponsors

✅ Multiple community mentors

✅ 9 month weekly program

✅ Changed the lives of these youth

✅ Plus engaged with local Katimavik youth in publicity and social media marketing

Here are some screen shots from 2 of our campaigns:

The key is to build content that is related to what’s really happening. Make it engaging, and targeted at your audience.

With these experiences, I created an online framework that is free and failsafe to get tasks done in a timely manner.

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🛠️ Tools We Use

• Earth Guides App: Private project collaboration
• Safe Messaging Matrix: For high-integrity outreach
• AI + Creative Software: For fast, professional content (like this image below of a picture of Jamie, overlaid on an AI generated image. It took AI to inspire, and a real person to do the final touches)
• Flexible Online Systems: Work from anywhere, with consistent quality

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📞 Let’s Connect

If you’re a heart-driven business ready to grow your presence and support the next generation — I’d love to hear from you.

With gratitude,
Jamie Black, MA, BI, NCC
Mentor • Guide • Digital Storyteller
Founder of Wild Craft Play + Earth Guides

👉 jamieblack@wildcraftplay.com
📱 250-927-7923

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Earth Guides

Earth Guides Chat @Jamie Black

www.wildcraftplay.com

Facebook @WildCraftPlay
Private Facebook Community Group

LinkedIn @WildCraftPlay
Instagram @WildCraftPlaysCool

Grateful and humbled to be able to work and play on K’omoks First Nation Territory (Sathloot, Sasitla, Ieeksun, Pentlatch)

Teaching and Learning together since 2008.

This portal is for teachers/community program leaders, facilitators, who lead others on Earth.

From the Founder, Jamie Black

It has been years of calling in community, talking about hard topics, and trying to find a platform that works for people.  It’s no circle in the woods, but it is pretty darn accessible, and it’s private.

With so many people reaching out to access resources, my time and the expertise of other professionals in the field, I needed something that could enhance people’s experience, make the experience more accessible to more people, and provide valuable content and resources.

With 20 years in the field and a thesis on The Hummingbird Approach; A Case Study of Guided Discovery Learning with Children in Nature, we have a few techniques that hook children, ignite a craving for more, generating anticipation for the next activity. 

I have built a Live Action Role Play world called Wild Craft Play from the shoulders of giants such as; John Dewey, Jerome Bruner, and Montessori’s theories of Guided Discovery Learning; Jon Young and the 8 Shields Model with the Art of Mentoring; Role Play strategies from World of WarCraft, Cards, and resources from games like WildCraft, The Sacred Storyteller, Practices such as using dice in DnD, Tangible resources like in Minecraft, Questing with Clark and Glazier, and LARPing, the list goes on. 

With every adventure, we adapt to the changes, especially now with what is happening because of Covid.  We have learned to break things down a bit more, offer more support to teachers and leaders online, ensuring that there is less reading required and more tangible tools to simply use such as videos of Jamie speaking directly to the youth. 

By turning this into a “compass” where you get what you need when you need it, rather than receiving a handful of reading material to start, the journey of learning by doing is much easier to swallow, allowing time to digest and celebrate success.

Kelli, a trained Wild Craft Play practitioner on Vancouver Island, has a class of grade 6’s and a great wilderness setting at a private school. She hosted Wild Craft Play 3 days a week, for at least 4 hours a day for months, which is not required for success in this program, yet quite a privilege. The feedback from young people is that they want to play this more, more often, and for longer. Even in sideways rain, one youth hollered “Can we play this all winter?”