Step-by-Step Transformation
Life Story Workshops
While Life Review is an unhurried one-on-one process, its core principles lend themselves to shorter reflective group experiences.
An “Encore Strengths” Approach
By looking at their life as a whole, participants often discover that those qualities they want more of aren’t new to them. Evidence of their strengths in their life story helps them tap into their own sense of courage, adventure, creativity, resilience, agency, vitality, clarity, leadership, and purpose. These qualities become their encore strengths.
“Coaching is about moving people forward. What life story does is pre-work: priming participants for desired outcomes by helping them understand something about themselves before creating a routine to build on what they already have.”
— AMY MAGYAR, ICF MENTOR COACH, USA
Designed for Lasting Impact
I combine the principles of time-tested, evidence-based Life Review methodology with creative practice and neuroscience-informed storytelling. Participants are invited to think through their life story in innovative ways, identify what stands in the way of their flourishing, and reclaim their strengths.
Each workshop is custom-designed and delivered on request. Here’s how we can work together:
I. Alignment
We discuss your vision, define what success looks like, and establish the organizing principle that determines what is included in the experience and—even more importantly—what is not.
II. Customization
I design the curriculum to meet the goals of your event, fit your theme, and harmonize the overall experience.
III. Transformation
Each workshop aims to make the experience personally meaningful to participants and includes steps and tools for transformation before, during, and after the event.
Topics
Some of the recent workshops I designed are:
UnMute Yourself: Find Your Voice by Owning Your Story
Insider Knowledge: Life Review Tools for Memoirists
Narrative Continuity: Life Review Tools for the Globally Mobile
The Big Picture: An Image-First Approach to Life Story
Engagements
My workshop clients include Intentional Vitality Retreats, SIETAR USA, Concordia University’s COHDS (Center for Oral History & Digital Storytelling), among others.
In addition to workshops, I welcome opportunities to lead a dedicated life story retreat at your location, teach a multi-week life story course, and co-facilitate team-building events where feeling seen and heard matters. Please reach out to discuss what we can create together.