Story Paths

Well met, fellow wanderer,I welcome your company, here at this riverside resting spot, with willows budding, moisture and pollen swirling in the air, and the sun arcing overhead. I must say, those are some fine tools you’re carrying in your pack. I’m curious how you learned to use them, and to hear of work that you’ve done. I’d like to know which paths brought you here, so

Watch this episodeDougie’s Pacific Northwest Coast TourDougie’s website: https://storyconnection.orgMyth as Medicine course.Dougie’s podcastInstagramComment on this episodeYou’re in for a treat. Today I get into all the good things with traditional Scottish storyteller Dougie Mackay. He’s a skilled storyteller deeply rooted in the rich heritage of Scottish folklore, who w

Book one-on-one story sessions hereRead this as an article, and share your thoughts hereHere’s a greate way to conceive stages of creative work. I learned this from a friend who used them in the hospitality industry, but they’re applicable in any project.Consider three layers:1) Big picture thinking.2) Big muscle moving.3) Detailing.Let’s Say You’re Opening a RestaurantThe

Links:Laura Burns' family constellation course.Isaac Fosl-Van Wyke's music.Welcome to Story Paths.Why stories? Because they help us imagine together, for one reason. They help us see possible pasts, possible futures.Welcome welcome, welcome.Today is a special issue. The audio version has music, so do have a listen. I’ll also share an amazing course that a friend and mentor of min

Read this as an article, and share your thoughts hereBook one-on-one story sessions hereLet’s open with a poemA power outage,is not an aberration.It is the old normal worldpoking throughinto the aberrationof tech depending on tech depending on tech depending onthe world.Wind, water, weather, creature.This wild wild world.What is it to be cut off from ancestral stories?When gaps t

Read this as an article and reply hereBook one-on-one story sessions hereBringing Distant Ones CloseA Spiritual ApproachHow might I connect with the water in Nigeria, Alberta, Costa Rica, Australia? How can I come to understand that this water may well come into my own body?We learn from many spiritual teachings that all beings are in interrelation with each other. We are, as Marti

Watch the promo hereThe sales stuff:I'm offering this at an opening discount of 15 dollars.Buy it on Gum Road (free account).I'm also lowering the price on my three course bundle, which includes Story Shapes 1, and Brainstorming Story Ideas, for 30.Buy the bundle of all three courses.I'll hold that until the first week of April, then they'll go up.With these purchases, you’ll be

Read this as an article and share your thoughts hereBook one-on-one story sessions hereI’ll open with a passage penned by none other than the Dalai Lama, which appears in the preface of Coming Back to Life, the Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown.The Dalai Lama writes:Although it is increasingly evident how interdependent we are in virtually

For story workshops: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/06d77f86-cbe9-4c65-8486-2e723e2b33b4It is a freestyle rhythmic meditation on borders. Because just as the stories in our minds become the stories we live, the borders in our minds become the borders we enforce.This one’s better listened to (see the audio link).In we go. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss thi

Workshop: Speak the Work you Love: Storytelling for Businesses with Soul Sign up for weekly story workshops here: https://storypaths.substack.com/p/f3dbaab7-c9bf-463b-ad5d-bfc51651ccfeHow might it feel to expand your psychic footprint back in time, to go back seven generations, with all the changes? How might it feel to go forward into the future?How would thinking in deep time cha