Magic did happen when you change your story. Yes, you’ve probably heard this before, and maybe recognised the truth of it, but still have no real idea how it 'works’. You’ve tried to change your mindset, you’ve tried affirmations, and life still looks the same.

What if there’s something you’ve been missing; something that can only be seen by looking in the opposite direction and noticing something new about how the human mind works with stories, rather than the stories themselves, that has the potential to change everything?

This isn’t about learning something you have to take on trust. It’s about starting to notice for yourself, in real time, often for the first time, the part we really do play in creating our own experience of reality, and the magic that this can unlock. This isn't about taking u word for it, it's about checking it out for yourself. It’s possible to navigate the world with a new sense of clarity, more peace of mind and the ability to come back to centre far more quickly when things get hairy. The pennies start dropping.

Through working interactively with folktales, we’ll take a fresh look at what becomes possible when we notice where and when the magic actually happens, often not when you think!

It turns out that if you try to jump into a new story as soon as you’ve seen that the old one is rather shabby, it often turns out to be nigh on impossible, it’s where all those “fake it ‘til you make it” quotes come from. So WOAHHH! You may have just missed the most important information of all: Your mind is creating magic with stories! And stories, although they absolutely look like reality, are not reality itself. This is what we’ll be exploring in this workshop.

The answers don’t come from something you ‘learn’, but from your experience of checking it out for yourself, and beginning to notice, from a completely new perspective, how story and life entwine to create your day to day real-life experience.

This is potentially a game-changing workshop that explores the stories we tell ourselves in a completely new light, focussing on their nature, our relationship to them and the magic they create. From here we’ll explore how creating change and new magic becomes possible.

Being able to change the stories we tell ourselves, once we see how it works, can mean:

Less angst, more peace; less caring what people think, more ease; less imposter syndrome, more confidence; less arguments more good communication.

This workshop isn’t a fingers-in-the-ear, la-la-la, denial of our difficulties. It is, if anything, about getting more real, looking closely at where the rubber meets the road in our dealings with what life throws at us, and how we get to respond. By slowing things right down, we can begin to notice how life and story are creating magic together, moment by moment.

When we start to see how this is playing out in our own lives as well as those around us, our relationship to our stories begins to shift, and we get a glimpse of the freedom that lies beneath.

It’s this that paves the way for conscious magic.

It could be the start of a whole new way of feeling alive...

“Everything starts as a story”

-Joseph Campbell

This work has developed out of thirty years of working professionally with stories through writing, performing and teaching, developing and facilitating experiential and creative processes for exploring the role of stories in our lives, and studying the nature of storytelling and the creative process.

• Follow up sessions will be on Zoom and must be taken within 2 weeks of the workshop.