DO YOUR STORY WORK
3-DAY INTENSIVE
COMING IN 2025
🌱 Your work is meant to liberate.
But before you can do that for others, you need to liberate yourself from harmful, internalized stories & build a life rooted in better storytelling.
The challenge we're meeting
together… 🌿
The systems you and your community exist within are in opposition to the work you do and are telling you harmful stories every day. We need to know how to resist harmful stories & lean into helpful ones.
The thing is, most of us aren’t taught:
- Where stories show up (which means they can do some sneaky work on us without us realizing it)
- How to evaluate what makes good stories (which means we’re not effectively choosing better stories & rejecting harmful ones)
- What happens to our nervous system (then behaviors & choices) when we continually internalize harmful stories
- Rituals & frameworks for better storytelling that heals, affirms, and helps us & our communities sustain the conditions for our fullest liberation.
Doing your sacred story work is a journey of coming home to yourself.
The version(s) of you beneath layers of social conditioning, capitalistic burnout, and other people’s (unhelpful) voices. The you who is whole, powerful, knowing, discerning, creative, resilient, and who carries necessary gifts for this world.
In this story work, you heal your wounded stories, love your origin stories, celebrate your self-determination stories, and write a story of collective liberation by living it.
The sacred story work has to start in the right place.
Before we can share our stories, we need to take the time to first know our stories & love our stories. Then we do our work to craft our story meaningfully before we share our stories confidently & impactfully.
The framework looks like this:
By slowing down the process and starting at the true starting line, we allow ourselves the space to powerfully heal, reframe, and contextualize. In doing this work, stories that we long believed were limitations can be reframed into superpowers. Unhelpful voices that became sticky internal ticker-tapes can be released and replaced with truer narratives that honor our agency & self-determination.
For example, by doing this story work, my clients have made these powerful discoveries & shifts in their self-stories:
Getting our inner stories right is so important to the work we do with others.
🌟 It’s like Lauryn said: “How we gonna win if we ain’t right within?”
Our truer, healthier, most authentic stories are there, often quietly waiting for the harmful stories to sit down and be humble.
Doing our story work is the work of making space to hear our lived experiences speak our earned lessons back to us & shape our wisest voice—the voice that guides our path. The voice we channel when we serve our communities.
Over 2 weekends (dates coming in 2025) 👉🏽
🌀 Be in community with other change-makers & radical knowledge workers to…
DO YOUR STORY WORK
A 3-day intensive workshop to liberate your narratives, unearth your deep wisdom, and craft stories that empower your voice & heal your communities.
DAY 1
Know Your Story & Love Your Story
🧺 First, we’ll practice our tools & techniques to establish safety and form community–the first two conditions for story work.
🧺 You will practice using the Blocks Release Journal to release any blocks that emerge and integrate this practice to serve you through the rest of your Story Work journey.
🧺 We’ll then deep dive into stage 1 of our story work: Know Your Story. You will get access to the Sacred Story Bank System and begin generating story matter.
🧺 Using the story bank, you’ll learn how to notice, organize, theme, and make sense of your story in new and powerful ways.
🧺 As we work through Stage 1, we’ll also explore Stage 2: Love Your Story. You’ll experience the recursive nature these two stages have with one another.
🧺 There will be opportunities to release & reframe our limiting narratives, while reinforcing and celebrating our empowering narratives.
🧺 This session will provide opportunity for somatic practices, independent work, communal sharing, and personalized guidance.
🧺 P.S. This day is also about building community in safety & reciprocity—rituals I invite you to integrate into your own work & storytelling. Beyond the curriculum, the time becomes meaningful through the connections we form and the sense-making we co-construct.
DAY 2
Craft Your Story
🧶 In this session, we’ll choose an emergent lesson to share with audiences and do the work to craft the story around the lesson.
🧶 Using our story banks, we’ll solidify our core values, guiding vision, and current mission as guideposts for the language and intention behind our Lesson Story.
🧶 Then we’ll work backwards to establish our message– the call to action for our audience–before dropping into intuition & creativity to create the narrative experience of the story, our creative process structured by guiding questions that contain our storytelling within practices of good teaching.
🧶 We’ll then enhance the crafting of our story to design the experience for our listeners–from emotions to sensory detail, from metaphor to evidence.
🧶 This session will scaffold instruction and independent work time so that you can leave with a solid working draft or draft in progress that feels manageable to complete by our final session.
🧶 P.S. In this session, you’ll also be the audience for some of my storytelling (grown from the sacred story frameworks). I’ll invite you to release any myths you have about what it means to share stories with audiences—(hint: It’s not about performance; it’s about deep teaching & meaningful dialogue, and embodying the places of ourselves where we’ve grown our roots & wisdom.)
DAY 2.5
Craft Your Story
Take time to craft your story on your own before our final day of gathering. (If there’s demand for it, we can open a co-working space in the community portal on this day too. Write alongside other members of the group at your own pace.)
DAY 3
Share Your Story
🐚 In this final session, you’ll experience some of the rituals & ceremonies that I want you to remember about Story Spaces of Communion.
🐚 You’ll have the opportunity (always your choice) to participate in both sharing your story & in holding story space for others.
🐚 We’ll begin by learning the frameworks for collective safety, agreement, and support along with rituals for celebration and empowerment.
🐚 Then, we will ease into sharing in small groups. Here, you can test out your voice, nurture your nervous system, and observe your story sharing experience in a smaller setting. Community members will practice holding safe space for these stories.
🐚 We will then open up the stage within the larger group for story sharing. (Depending on the number of registrants and number of those ready to share, we may have to collectively agree on a cap or on an extension of time.)
🐚 We will practice our collective rituals and celebration for all our storytellers and all our stories.
🐚 Finally, we will end our workshop experience with open dialogue. This is a time of reflection, collective sense-making, and integration.
🐚 In this dialogue, we’ll move towards a deeper understanding for future action taking and next steps in our personal missions and collective responsibility to liberate our communities and steward our worlds.
Is this sacred story work for you?
Our 3-Day intensive especially welcomes:
𖦹 Members of the global majority ready to liberate their stories
𖦹 Knowledge workers who exist outside dominant narratives
𖦹 Change-makers committed to collective liberation
𖦹 Anyone whose voice and wisdom has been historically excluded from spaces of power
𖦹 Heart-led leaders seeking to create more equitable, sustainable futures
You'll find deep resonance here if:
⟢ You sense there are deeper stories within you waiting to be heard and shared
⟢ You want to approach storytelling in a way that honors your nervous system and healing journey
⟢ You're ready to do the inner work that allows you to show up more fully for your communities
⟢ You value learning in intimate, trauma-informed spaces
⟢ You seek to transform limiting narratives into empowering ones
This might not be the right fit if:
🗙 You're seeking performance-focused public speaking training
🗙 You want quick marketing templates for your story
🗙 You're not yet ready to explore your stories in community
🗙 You need more individual support (1:1 coaching might serve you better)
Hey, I'm Joey! 👋🏽
I'm an educator, storyteller, coach, healer, & activist...
I think a lot about how we can become the people we need to be to shift paradigms & sustain a healthy world. As an educator, storyteller, coach, healer, & activist, I've spent the last 18 years helping people liberate their voices and stories.
My journey with sacred story work began in my classroom, where I witnessed how story-sharing could transform not just the storyteller, but entire communities. As a spoken word coach and creator of university-approved coursework on Oral Expressions, I learned how to create safe spaces for authentic voice to emerge. Working with historically excluded students and teachers, I saw firsthand how liberating our stories could help us reclaim our power and dignity.
This work is deeply personal for me. As someone who grew up biracial, multi-lingual, an immigrant, autistic, and a trauma survivor, I understand the complexity of sharing our stories in a world that hasn't always made space for our voices. My own healing journey, (including becoming a certified Kundalini yoga teacher & learning from Indigenous teachers about healthier, more collective ways of being), has shaped how I approach story work.
I've taken all I've learned—from my Ph.D. research on narrative traditions, my years teaching and coaching, my healing practices, and my commitment to decolonial frameworks—and crystallized it into this sacred story work methodology. This framework honors both the individual's healing journey and our collective liberation.
My mission is to support a community of thriving voices from the global majority who will reverberate their necessary knowledge, imagination, and ideas for the liberation of our best collective futures. I'm here to hold space for your story journey, offering both the practical tools and sacred practices that allow your authentic voice to emerge.
I'm so glad you're here. Your stories matter, and together we can create the conditions for them to be shared in ways that heal and liberate both you and your communities. 💛✨️
We are now gathering a waitlist of people ready to do their story work in 3 (or 4) days of online community...
Each session will begin at 10am EST and continue for about 3ish hours ... (I think— it depends on y’all, tbh).
👉🏽 When you register, you’ll be added to our community portal & where you can access a video replay of the TELL BETTER STORIES workshop (which serves as an intro into the deeper work we’ll do in the 3-day intensive.)
👉🏽 You’ll also get some pre-work that will help you define stories & start thinking around how harmful stories exist in your world.
👉🏽 Before our intensive, you’ll receive access to the SACRED STORY BANK SYSTEM (hint: it’s a fancy, colorful google spreadsheet I birthed to help me process my 80+ hours of narrative research for my dissertation, and since refined through work I’ve done with clients into the iteration is today).
👉🏽I’ve included some pre-recorded story-bank how-to videos for those who like to work ahead. But don’t worry, we’ll go through everything very step-by-step during the live intensive, too!
👉🏽 During the intensive, I’ll give you some writing templates & tools to help facilitate your best thinking & freest writing.
👉🏽 The live sessions will be recorded & shared with all those who register so you can always revisit the material when you need to.
THE INVESTMENT FOR THE 3-DAY “DO YOUR STORY WORK” INTENSIVE WILL BE INCREASED TO $225.
BUT EARLY BIRD REGISTRANTS CAN SIGN UP FOR ONLY $150.
QUICK SUMMARY: Investment & accessibility 🌱
Regular investment: $225 Early registration: $150 (Limited time)
To make this work more accessible:
- 🌸 Payment plans available (3 monthly payments of $55)
- 🌿 2 scholarship spots reserved for members of historically excluded identities
- 💫 Simple refund policy: Full refund available until Dec 31st
- ✨ All materials & replay are yours to keep after the intensive
What you'll receive 🍵
When you join our learning circle, you'll receive:
- 🌱 Access to our private community gathering space
- 🌿 Video replay of the TELL BETTER STORIES workshop
- 🍃 Pre-work materials to begin your story journey
- 💫 The SACRED STORY BANK SYSTEM (my specially designed framework)
- ✨ Writing templates & tools
- 🌸 All session recordings
- 🍵 Ongoing community support