Some stories are written. Others arrive.
I have spent much of my life listening for the stories that move through dreams, the natural world, spirit, memory, imagination, and the experiences we don’t always have words for.
But StoryKeeping, for me, is not simply telling the story of what happened.
It is returning to an experience and listening for what is still there.
Some experiences reveal themselves immediately. Others may remain with us for years before
we recognize what they carry. We may return to the same dream, encounter, memory or moment
many times and discover that it has changed because we have changed.
Something we could not understand then becomes visible now.
A relationship appears.
A pattern emerges.
Something originally received through sensation, image, emotion, movement or
knowing begins to find language.
This is the work of the StoryKeeper.
I return to experience without requiring it to become a fixed story. I listen for the relationships within it,
what has remained alive, what may have been overlooked, and what is ready to be understood differently.
Sometimes the story comes through my own experience. Sometimes it emerges through an encounter
with another person. Sometimes it has travelled a very long way before it finds the moment
when it can finally be spoken.
The movement is one I have come to recognize again and again:
Experience → Return → Recognition → Language → Embodiment
Language is not the end of the story.
What we recognize can change how we understand ourselves, how we meet our lives, and how we enter
relationship with what comes next.
The StoryKeeper listens for that movement — and helps bring what has been carried into a form that
can be witnessed, understood and lived.
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retreat or community event. Each offering is shaped in relationship
with the people, place and occasion
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Story has always been one of the ways we gather, remember, make meaning, and recognize ourselves
in one another.
I bring storytelling, reflection, guided journey, and conversation into circles, retreats, workshops,
community gatherings, and other shared spaces.
Sometimes I arrive with a story already asking to be told. Sometimes the people, place, or purpose
of the gathering reveals what is needed.
Each experience is different because each gathering has its own story.
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Stories I Carry
Some of these stories have come through lived experience. Others have emerged through dreams,
encounters with the natural world, meditation, and moments of deep listening. Over time, they have become
stories I carry and share in gatherings, circles, workshops, and spoken journeys.
The Star Who Listened
A story of a star listening to the living sounds of Earth — oceans, whales, insects, wind, storms, human hearts, prayers, fear, and finally the extraordinary music created by Life together.
The Giver’s Last Walk
A story of giving, exhaustion, release, and the moment when the one who has carried so much begins to return to herself.
The In-Between
There is a place between what has ended and what has not yet begun. A story about waiting, listening, and discovering that the space between worlds has a life of its own.
Those Who Come to Sit by the Ocean
Some come carrying grief. Some come with questions. Some simply sit. A story about the people who find their way to the water, and what the ocean receives without asking them to explain.
The Stories Continue
These are only a few of the stories I carry.
Others have grown from dreams, encounters, journeys, the natural world, and experiences that sometimes took years before I understood what they were asking me to remember.
Some become spoken stories. Some become guided journeys. Some find their way into my writing and teaching.
And some are still becoming.
The StoryKeeper continues to listen.
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A growing library of stories, reflections and writings gathered through lived experience, dreams, the natural world, spirit, and the liminal spaces between.
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