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.