There are times in each life where we come to a crossroads—where something stops us in our tracks, and where we cannot move forward within the same story we have been living.

Before we are able to enter a new story, we must first navigate the passage out of the old. In between the old and the new, there is an empty space. It is a time when the lessons and learnings of the old story are integrated. Only when that work has been done is the old story really complete. And only then are we able to write the new story that is ours to step into.

The Sacred Storywork Program is intended to help you navigate the journey from the old story to the new, connect you more deeply with who you truly are, and remember the older, bigger story of you.

The Sacred Storywork Program is an in-depth exploration of your story through writing and ritual.

Story has the power to shape who and what we think we are, and how we see the world. My prayer is that this program will re-connect you with the powerful story that your soul came here to share.

Land-Based Ritual + Journal Explorations + Map of the Medicine Wheel + Storytelling + Lineage Work + Grief Ritual + Ancestral Connection + Fire Ritual + Medicine Walk + Nature Connection

In this program you will…

• Learn about the Medicine Wheel and the 7 sacred directions

• Deepen your relationship and comfortability with ritual and ceremony that is relevant to you

• Strengthen your ability to access your deep truth and soul’s wisdom

• Build your relationship with your ancestral lineage and the larger story you’re a part of

• Expand your connection with nature and the unseen

• Learn about your soul’s blueprint and receive an Evolutionary Astrology reading

• Integrate the lessons and challenges from your experience and release what no longer serves you

• Be able to tell the story of who you are and what you’ve been through from an expanded, empowered and inspired place

Why This Program?

Hi, I’m Mandy. I was born Amanda Virginia on the lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute in Denver, Colorado. I, myself, am a granddaughter of a complicated lineage with a story that is messy and full of shocking and sometimes painful twists and turns. And yet, I love my story as it has now brought me here to this place of exploring what it’s all about with you.

The Sacred Storywork Program is a creation that is more than 20 years in the making—a coming together of ceremony and ritual, writing, rites of passage and coming into relationship with the meaning of it all and the more than human world.

I created this program out of a need I felt as I moved through my own recovery from traumatic events that have shaped my life, and the inevitable questions that arise when we move through challenging passages. I created this program as a way to take control where we can—in the perspective we have and the meaning we make from the way our stories unfold.

this program is for:

• Anyone who wants to expand their idea of who they are and what their life is about through story, ritual and writing

• Anyone who needs to make meaning of the experiences they’ve been through so that they can be more integrated, trusting and clear

• Folks open to ritual exploration and deepening connection with the natural world and spiritual realms

• Those ready to open their minds and creatively explore their story in new and different ways

• People who are ready to dive into themselves and internally explore who they are

• Folks who are able to dedicate time and energy to this exploration

• Those who are willing to move beyond the limited story they’ve been told about themselves or the world

This program is not a good fit for:

• Folks who are not able to dedicate 3-4 hours per week towards this work (including sessions) for the eight weeks. This is an intensive program that takes you through quite a journey and is full of insights, revelations, creativity and new understandings. It requires a certain amount of bandwidth—both in terms of time and space.

• Those who want to learn a dogmatic approach to ritual, or prefer to be told how to do it “right”. While we create enough structure with the rituals to give context and a sense of support, we approach ritual from a curious, open place, always listening for where you are being guided. We hold the strong conviction that you are the wisdom-keeper of what’s most needed for you.

• Those that secretly want to stay in the comfort zone of their old familiar stories. You will not be able to see yourself or your story the same at the end of this program. So if you don’t want your mind to be blown and your sense of self to shift, best not to sign up.

 I truly believe that some of the most important work we can do for ourselves and our communities is to tell our stories.

Just through the process of being human, we forget who we are. We get disillusioned about who we are. We get knocked down and turned around, and sometimes start to believe a story about ourselves or the world that keeps us locked into a certain size, a certain feeling, a certain way of being. If we truly want to change and help inspire change in the world, we have to be willing to share who we are, shed who we thought we were, and write a bigger story, a more ancient story, a story that allows us to step into the truth of who and what we really are.

Our stories have the potential to change the world, and here we get to remember that we are the storytellers.