Crack Open the Story
Spin your Story into Gold
Crack Open the Story: Spin your Story into Gold
Transform your Life
You have a Story to Tell. A Story that wishes to take you through a Transformational process and emerge more more BOLD, more CONFIDENT, more TRUTHFUL and more WHOLE. What Story are you Stalking? What Story is Stalking you? What story in your life contains the greatest power to set you free?Â
Your Life Story contains Elixirs. Your Life Story contains Challenges. Your Life Story contains Power. Your Life Story contains Pain. Your Life Story contains Beauty. Your Life Story contains Mysteries. Being Human means we have stories, nestled within stories that connect us to stories, nestled within stories. What if Story had the power to change your Life, inside and out? If experienced and understood through a transformative, creative container?
The Creative Process is a powerful catalyst for change. Myths and Fairyatales also contain wisdoms that can guide us more deeply into the heart and soul of our stories, and help us in Retrieving the personal stories most needing to be healed, integrated, released and/or rebirthed into new forms.
CRACK OPEN THE STORY is a (w)rites of passage journey that CREATIVELY guides you into the web of your life stories through transformative language arts processes (journaling, poetry, prose, life story/memoir writing, storytelling), and supports you in retrieving, releasing, rewriting and rebirthing the stories most relevant to your personal transformation.Â
CRACK OPEN THE STORY also invites you more deeply into the mysterious LIMINAL and IMAGINAL-MYTHOPOETIC realm of Fairytales and Myths relevant to universal themes of Initiation, Life/Death/Rebirth and the Hero and Heroines map of Transformation. When we weave through writing and storytelling the mythopoetic threads of Fairytale or Myth within our own unique personal life stories and vice versa, are doing the alchemical work of life story transformation. Â
CRACK OPEN THE STORY is a 3 month transformative WRITES OF PASSAGE program and LIFE STORY RETRIEVAL and RENEWAL process. You will experience:Â
Story as Transformation
Story as Medicine
Story as a MapÂ
Story Retrieval
Story as Writes of Passage/Initiation
Story as Alchemical Change Agent
In this writes of passage process for crafting your memoir, you will be guided into the following processesÂ
Crack Open the Story: Your life is a Story. You are a Nesting Doll of Stories filled with Stories. You will be guided, through themed and provocative writing prompts into the wild landscape of your personal stories. You will stalk the story and experience which stories are stalking you in order to dive more deeply into specific story themes and patterns in your own life. These will be developed into poems, prose, memoir pieces and/or spoken word pieces.Â
Listen for Stories: Good writing is born from good listening. How do you Listen? This process will cultivate your capacity for listening in new ways. You will not only write through, but also listen to body, place, imagination and memory in ways that profoundly deepen your relationship to story. When we listen we become like water. Deep listening is a radical act of compassion. We will cultivate a deeper listening ear to hear our deeper stories and to allow deeper stories to emerge in self and other.
Move the Story: Emotion is Energy in Motion. When you crack open stories, (the personal and the Mythos) you feel Story stirrings emotionally. Stories contain feelings. Feelings contain Power. You can be stuck inside of stories you don’t want to feel but you can also move the energy and transform your emotional response to stories through the creative process. Writing is a whole person activity. You won’t simply write with your mind but also with your body and your heart without drowning in stories. Expressive arts processes (movement, art, expressing the story in new ways) can provide greater objectivity between you and your own story. The creative process will give you new ways to relate to and see your own story. Instead of being swallowed by a story, you shift orientation to your part in the story and swallow your own story whole, rebirthing it anew in a new form -this is the transformative work of creative alchemy.Â
Imagination as Magic Doorway: You will listen to and ‘crack open’ fairytales and myths together and discover the secrets and mysteries embedded in myths and fairytales, and how these are keys for unlocking doorways to discover the elixir of your own life stories. Mythos can shape and change your relationship with your personal stories in unexpected and mysterious ways. You will be guided into writing processes that connect you to mythopoetic and universal maps of the human condition. Stories such as but not limited to Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, The Lindworm, Vassalissa the Brave, Persephone and Snow White (not the Disney versions!!) provide profound wisdoms through archetypes, symbols and ancient story maps of initiation and transformation. You will be guided into discovering who are you in the Fairytale, what are you in the Fairytale, and how this fairytale illuminates hidden meanings within your own life story? You will Discover new worlds within and without (in your psyche/reflection) and also through your writing.
Mythopoetic Story Mapping: Understanding the map of personal stories and the map of mythpoetic stories as well as the hero or heroines journey, provides a greater sense of belonging and meaning in one’s life. Mythopoetic Story Mapping greatly activates and assists in the story retrieval process and assists in life stories that were forgotten, misunderstood, feared, denied, repressed and/or exiled. It can also amplify the stories that contain great treasures and illuminations that we need to integrate and own more fully. This gives a greater sense of wholeness. It also allows a creative process that transforms shadow. You will gain new insights about who you are and what your destiny stories reveal.
STORY ELIXIR: You will walk away with a STORY ELIXIR in the form of poems, memoir writing, storytelling or monologue, etc that amplifies your relationship to your self, your voice, your truth, your wholeness, and your story. You will also be invited to submit your favorite writings into a self-published anthology.
Crack Open the Story will begin soon!
Sundays 10 am Pacific
2 hr live sessions will combine provocative writing exploration, transformational facilitation, story medicine and more
3 month container beginning mid Spring.
Be the new Story
More information is coming soon! If interested to learn more, please send me a short note!
May the Journey into Story be Transforming!