RESONATE

Storycrafting To Inspire Change
For Leaders, Creatives, & Guides

3 Month Cohort - 8 Live classes


You are here to make meaningful impact - and you know your story is a part of it.

And it's not just what you say, but how you say it.
Because even the structure of your story is part of your message. Using growth, transformation, and Jungian principles as the foundation, this course will help you get clear on your message and wield it with purpose, ensuring it resonates deeply with your audience.

This course will guide you to
• Unearth and articulate your wisdom
• Apply tools and storytelling frameworks designed to inspire change in the listener
• Strategize, transmit, and refine your delivery
• Direct your results with story crafting, telling a story from the perspective of your future self
• Collaborate in cohorts & practice sharing with interactive exercises

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8 Live Classes • 3 months • Storytelling Cohorts

Course Starts Spring 2025

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“We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or hate,
to see or be seen.

Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear silence, to name them, and then become a story-teller. ”

Rebecca Solnit

Who this is for...

You’ve have stories to tell - and know that your stories will help create powerful change,
but whenever you try to share them, you...

• Struggle with clarity and/or get lost in the tangents
• Are unclear with how to direct and structure your story to make the desired impact
• Find yourself unsure on how to connect to your audience
• Don't know how to keep people interested and engaged

ITS TIME. Become a powerful storyteller w a repertoire of stories at your disposal. Draw from your life's wisdom, get clear on your purpose, and engage your audience with narratives that inspire and make real change.

The StoryCrafting Formula

1. Take Stock

Familiarize & take inventory of
your life experiences, your current storytelling goal, and where you want
your story to take you..

2. Connect The Dots

Find the intersection of your experiences
the goal at hand,
and the needs of your audience.

3. Unlock The Wisdom

Get clear on the lessons your
biggest transformations taught you-
and get strategic on how to communicate
this to your audience.

4. Write A New Story

Edit, revise, distill, and learn how to direct your story so that it includes only whats relevant and important.

5. Share your Story

Practice and present your story.
Refine your delivery with cohorts
and iterate to make impact.

Behind every story lies a clear goal:
To immerse your audience in a visceral experience of understanding. But to achieve this, you must first embody
that understanding yourself.


Join me on a Journey of Story Crafting
as we distill and reframe life experiences into a narrative that highlights the universal principles of transformation and change.

  • Get clarity on wisdom learned in your life's biggest transformations and what's relevant to the story you want to tell
  • Explore the most effective way to frame your story so it achieves the goal is at hand
  • Revise and Reinterpret
    Filter your story so it resonates with the world, your audience, and yourself.
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Register to 'RESONATE'

Course includes:

We will meet weekly in 90 minutes sessions for the first 5 sessions  and every other week for the remainder of the course.

Step by Step guide with journal prompts, graphs, charts, and guidelines to systematically support you as you create your story.

At the end of the course, you will have a ready-to-share 5-10 minute story ideal for podcasts, panels, keynotes, and presentations.

Meet classmates and create accountability cohorts to reflect, share, and practice your stories with.

You have the option of signing up for personal support.  It’s been said that these 1 hour sessions are invaluable for helping clients when they’re feeling lost in the weeds.

Course Dates: Fall 2024

Cost: $1000

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We are excited to offer 5 partial scholarships
for those in financial need
or from historically underrepresented groups.
Please make note of this in the form above,
and we will email you an application.

"Mareesa’s workshop catalyzed deep revelations and conscious awareness of connections that had remained mysterious and confusing to me after decades of consideration. I had known there was a story and wisdom to be shared, but not all the implications I’m exploring now. Mareesa was an insightful, caring guide who offered many gifts over the series. I wish we were still meeting!"
Tania Abdul
Tania Abdul
"Your workshop provides tools that help the user to cultivate witness by framing their life as a story in creation and in their control vs one that is just happening to them. Its empowering to view one's life this way.

I got a lot out of the course. Thank you for offering it. "
Colm Walker
Colm Walker
"Mareesa's passion for the power of story to transform your relationship to your own story is medicine. It's very easy to keep busy and avoid looking at your story to make sense of it in a deeper way but Mareesa both inspires and accompanies you through that difficult journey. With her, you will feel safe (and excited!) to embrace the entire human experience and come out the other end with a crafted, impactful story."
Katya Fishman
Katya Fishman
"Through her storytelling magic, Mareesa helped me unearth old memories from childhood that I had considered settled and see them with new eyes, bringing me to illuminating new perspectives about my childhood struggles, why they were so hard and where to go with them as an adult. The class container provided a supportive, judgement free space for both self reflection and for practice sharing my story. I would highly recommend her class to anyone who is interested in re-writing their old self-limiting narratives from a place of compassion and power."
Firelight
Firelight
"Thank you Mareesa for holding such a container that inspires and empowers individuals to understand the power of their story.”
Troy
Troy
"Before working with Mareesa, I had read how to write memoir books but was stuck and getting nowhere with too much material. Mareesa's timeline method for identifying inflections points then focusing on the human journey, helped me to move forward with writing my story. Her supportive and caring instruction allowed me to explore the depth of my struggles so that I can now share my story with confidence."
Kelli Schonher
Kelli Schonher
"Mareesa has thought deeply about the ways stories create us as much as we create them. This class helped me get down to the DNA-level of certain stories of mine. It's like Crisper technology, helping you insert new programming into the protein double-helix of your SOUL. (Seriously.)"
Patrick
Patrick