How do you catch the thread of your own mythic story?
Do you, your family or community have a process for connecting more deeply to the story that’s dreaming you?
Weaving the tools of Renewal of Creative Path with Story Catching to track where we've been and better design where we are headed.
Renewal of Creative Path, ROCP, is an 8 question process that tracks synchronicities, patterns, stepping stones and more to connect us with our purpose and place in the larger story of our life.
This process is developed by Jon Young and the 8 Shields / Connection 1st team through research and long term mentoring relationships with many elders around the world, including Tom Brown jr of the Thracker School, Jon's teachers among the Kalahari Bushmen, Ingwe, Jake and Judy Swamp, Mohawk wisdom keepers and others.
Story Catching is a series of tools that I learned from Grace Upshaw who gathered them from various practices such as improv, Quaker meetings, and other modalities to support us in listening in different ways for various aspects of a personal story, to draw out deeper meanings, mirror, and harvest the gems within.
Both practices tune our ears to the stories, both simple day-to-day ones, and more life-changing moments. They help us track where we have been and shine a light on the path forward.
About your host: Hi, I’m Belinda White, nature connection mentor, storyteller, earth artist and symbol tracker. I have long understood the power of story, whether the simple ‘sharing the meat of the tongue’, catching the excited tellings of big events or surprise a-has, or holding space for grief.
My deep quest is to understand and nurture the function of story telling and story catching, and ask is it deep in our bones, one of the oldest ways we learn, hwo we integrate and grow?
I have found this to be so! I have benefitted myself enormously from the ROCP practice through Jon Young’s / Connection 1st Village Talk and I have offered it in person and online in collaboration with Grace Upshaw several times.
Better late than never. This is a last minute, and an offer I hope to nurture and grow. i would be honoured if you'd join us for an intimate cohort of inner trackers…
Register for one of two options
Our Zoom bi weekly cohort, 6:30-9pm starting Jan 23rd for the Intro Session. We'll drop into the flow of the space I'll be holding, learn more the ROCP and Story Catching tools and how they can help you uncover and clarify your purpose and pathway. We'll touch on how the art of mentoring for gifts: having a council of others committed to deep listening and asking good questions helps us harvest the truths in our experiences.
I’d love to share this beautiful inner tracking process with you! Come check it out to see if it's a good fit.
Jan 23 Intro Session
Feb 6, 20, Mar 5, 19, Apr 2, 16, 30, May 14 and 28
Our In-Person bi weekly cohort had it's intro session last Tuesday. We are welcoming 2-3 more participants into the next session, Jan 30th. Held at Belinda's Home around a lovely fire through the colder months in East Vancouver, Musqueum, Tsleiwatulth and Squamish Territories. We'll possibly head outdoors once the weather is more manageable.
To join us in person, please email me at applestarlearning@gmail.com or DM on insta at @thetwiningtrail
Jan 16 Intro Session - It's ok that you missed it, come for the second or contact me if you'd like to know more.
Jan 30, Feb 13, 27, Mar 12, 26, Apr 9, 23, May 7, and 21
Cost:
Sliding scale $15-$25 x 10 or 9 sessions, payable by lump sum, or per session here on eventbrite or via etransfer to applestarlearning@gmail.com. ***Please Note: fees on Eventbrite are set at Donation and that Eventbrite does take a fee. Please be sure to make a payment for each session you attend, at as little or as much as you feel able. This financial contribution helps me to continue to develope my skills and devote time to this work I am passionate about. These 'doantion fees' are low as my main goal is to slowly build my capacity to offer such programs.
No one turned away for lack of funds!!
We strongly hope that after the first Intro Session, if you are committed, that you'll attend all 9 sessions barring unforeseen circumstances. Due to the nature of our intimate sharing, we will not be recording our sessions. If you are unable to attend, we'll do our best to update you with a summary of what we shared.
I'm honoured that you are considering joining me on my journey to deepen and hone my practices of story carrying and story catching, so that we can all tune into the vital medicine of story. I'm also excited to collaborate with others, if your are dreaming of any events that could use the elxir of story medicine.
I'll be annoucning a a 3 part series of Story Council workshops as well, Courting the Shadow that will immese you in the medicine of the old stories, myths, folklore and fairy tale to explore our journey in the dark times of the yearly cycle and also of our personal lives. I'll be offering at least one of these live on Salt Spring as well!!
warmly annd wildly, Belinda White @ The Twining Trail
"May we draw closer to the fire, so that we can better see each other's dreams." Ancient Chinese Proverb
