Come to the fire!
Isn't it time to fire up your life, your work and your learning? Choose a live, participatory experience, a self-paced module or a tailored coaching experience. Mix and match to suit your needs.
Live Events
Online, check for next dates
Thirsty for answers?
Play a Flow Game!
Longing for more but don't know how to get there? Join a Flow Game to get joyfully & playfully unstuck in only 2.5 hours. Personalised coaching & targeted wisdom in an intimate small group setting.
CONSIDER THIS: Getting yourself to where you want to be in your life is not about trying harder to get the right answers. It's about playfully asking the right question and receiving the wisdom that's already waiting for you.
Wait, what? Could it be that easy?
Have you ever thought to yourself that if you only had the right answer, then all of life would fall into place?
What if it is all about about asking the right questions and bringing a sense of playful ease to what you discover as a result?
The intimate setting of a Flow Game helps you find the wisdom to take on your life with confidence, courage and energy.
You'll get personal, focused coaching and the wisdom of a small group of up to 8 other players.
A Flow Game helps you find the wisdom to take on your life with confidence, courage and energy.
It's the best 2.5 hours you could invest in yourself!
Online March 16 & 23
The "Who Am I Now?" Conversations
Feel like you need a place to stop and figure out who you are now?
So many of us are facing challenges in life that seem never-ending. The pace of change feels overwhelming. It leaves us asking deep inside: "Who am I now in the face of this?"while trying to keep up on the outside.
Things are not the same. Maybe a big change has struck your life. Or maybe there's just a deep sense that something is shifting inside you.
We feel it too. That's why we're offering a open series of conversations you can join with others who are also asking "Who am I now? What is mine to do?"
Together we'll look for the wisdom that comes when you have a conversation that really matters.
Each conversation is designed as a two hour "sabbatical" from your everyday life. Give yourself the time to really sink into the conversation and be in inquiry with us. This is a time to slow down in order to go fast.
These conversations are anchored by Mary Alice Arthur & Amy Lenzo, two very seasoned online group hosts, with a changing team of other talents bringing their unique contributions.
FREE
Denmark, April 3 - 5
The Art of Hosting
You are warmly invited to the Art of Hosting training in the Lake District of Denmark, happening April 3 - 5. Our calling question is:
How may we strengthen our personal leadership and ability to work in peaceful and co-creative ways, to build thriving future for all?
The world we live in is calling for a different kind of leadership, a leadership that awakens the leader in each and everyone of us and our innate inner drive and desire to contribute to positive change for our communities, organisations and society at large.
If you want to know how to create meetings and conversations that can support the ability to think together, make use of a diversity of insights and ideas in ways that create concrete action, this is for you!
You'll come away with the tools, mental models, methods, action learning practice and a plan that will enable you to immediately put what you've learned into action.
Join me, Toke Møller, Rowan Simonsen, Anne Madsen, Maja Røtboll and a circle of curious and courageous co-learners on the journey of learning how to host and harvest conversations that really matter.
Online starting April 22
Beyond Facilitation
Working with conflict, divisiveness and disturbance
If you – and those you work with and for – are feeling a growing amount of overwhelm and complexity, it may be because of the conflict, divisiveness and disturbance that is arising everywhere. Falling into disturbance, conflict and divisiveness robs all of us of the potential of using its combined resources to create innovation and wiser action.
It’s time to do things differently.
Come and learn from practitioners working at the edge and see how our stories and applied story work can provide a place where we can take shelter from the storm and find understanding and strength with each other.
We will take a very hands on look at how to find and work with questions that matter to you. You'll take away both new insight and ways to work practically with the art of questions. And you'll get some focused insight into your own question and your next action steps.
Hear from senior practitioners in the field and work with a narrative method that can be applied in your upcoming projects precisely because it can support generative listening, deeper understanding, and stronger co-created outcomes.
Online April 22, 29 & May 6, 13
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Join me for the next training
Flow Game Host Training
If you've ever experienced a Flow Game, you know it is a playful way to handle the really serious stuff of life and work. Playing the Flow Game is a great way to get past overwhelmed and stuck and into a new view of the future.
A Flow Game is ideal for:
- Colleagues who want to innovate together
- Life partners wanting to explore an aspect of relationship in a new way
- A team needing wise council on a current or planned initiative
- Anyone seeking personal inspiration and a lift into their desired future
The game has individual cards, team cards and family cards and comes in multiple languages.
I regularly offer training to aspiring Flow Game Hosts. If you feel called to learn how to use this powerful tool, find out when the next training is taking place.
The next trainings:
- 11 - 13 April in Berlin
- 26 - 28 September in Denmark
- If there is enough demand, I will also offer a training online in 2025
Contact me to find out how you can take part...
You choose the time & focus
One-on-one Coaching
One of the best ways to feel more solid in the world is to discover and claim your personal core stories and how you work with them.
Maybe you want to focus your leadership. You want to prepare a presentation or an important group meeting. You want to shine at an event or brainstorm your future.
There's no one better to work with this on than Mary Alice. Her years of experience, her keen ear and her mastery of provocative questions will be at your service. You will gain an expanded awareness of your both your issues and your strengths. You'll come away realizing your story is your ally and you have wisdom on tap.
During your one-on-one sessions with Mary Alice, you'll receive all the support you need to find and shape the story you want to work with. You'll get clear and confident about the next steps forward.
Let's create the perfect focus for you to thrive!
Self Paced
A simple way to kickstart your storytelling
Love Stories
The past two years have been tough. It’s easy to focus on the drama of it all, but I’ve decided that I’d rather live in a love story.
There are so many ways to express love. One of the best is by sharing stories; reminding people how they’ve sparked love and learning in us and for others.
Stories are a great reminder that we already know how to love.
And the more we practice, the more love there is. So I’m making this invitation for others to join me in sending out small stories to change the world. One love story at a time…
Every day for 28 days, you'll receive a postcard with a prompt.
Use it to think about a story and send it to someone you care about. Maybe someone you haven't seen for awhile. Or someone you haven't spoken to for a long time. Say something that's in your mind and on your heart. There's no better time then now.
Choose your contribution
Self-paced
IMAGINE (8 modules)
WHAT IF... this were your best year yet – a time when everything comes together, when your passion and purpose ignites, when you have the courage to shine and manifest all you can imagine for yourself?
IMAGINE is an eight session online adventure you can join from anywhere in the world, designed to create the focus and intention to carry you into the stratosphere to live your dreams.!
You'll have on-going access to the material to support your unfolding journey and a circle of virtual companions through our closed Facebook group. Self-paced sessions hosted by Mary Alice Arthur & Holger Scholz.
If you join us for IMAGINE, you'll also be offered FREEDOM, a step-by-step guide to creating your best year yet.
Self-paced
US$67
If you join IMAGINE, you also receive a discount for FREEDOM
Self-paced
FREEDOM (8 modules)
FREEDOM is not something outside of you, it is something that you can create for yourself. What better time is there than in this season of challenge and change? Join our vibrant international community online right now to explore and claim your biggest horizon.
Are you ready to take flight? Start today by finding and living your FREEDOM. Self-paced sessions hosted by Mary Alice Arthur & Holger Scholz.
Eight days of practical and inspirational material plus the support of people around the globe will challenge you to take the leap.
If you join us for FREEDOM, you'll also be offered IMAGINE, a step-by-step guide to creating your best year yet for a special bundle price.
Self-paced
US$67
If you join FREEDOM, you also receive a discount for IMAGINE
Storymaking & story shaping
65 ALIVE! 2022 (Five 90 minute sessions)
Add some fuel to your fire with five session on the power & practice of story. A new theme and new story practitioners, thought leaders and artists each session.
The recording includes the 65 minute livestream Q&A with the daily guests.
Our themes are:
- Women & men & power: What do our stories tell us about how women and men see power? Where do we go from here?
- What is work now? What do we dream possible in the world of work and how do we tell this new story?
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Letting the wolf in: Thinking about and working with difficult stories
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The spirit of story -- how the past fuels. the future: How are the stories of the past & present influencing our future? What stories are we making & breaking?
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Story as activism: When we change our stories, we can change the world. What does that look like in practice?
US $45
Hear story thought leaders
65 ALIVE! 2021 (Eight 90 minute sessions)
Eight special days with a different theme and different speakers each day. In this package you get access to both the original panel conversations and to the Q &A sessions that happened afterwards. You will also be able to download the graphic harvests of each session.
Speakers include Peter Block, Christina Baldwin, Juanita Brown, Toke Paludan Møller and many others.
Topics include:
- Crafting your compelling story
- Finding your voice
- Claiming our stories around what matters
- What if we're all leaders?
- Story is our connection
- Story as activism
- Story & the community of belonging
- Story as a practice of peace
US $45
Learn from top practitioners & storytellers
STORY THE FUTURE Online Summit (75 speakers)
Enjoy more than 40 hours of interviews with story practitioners and storytellers around the world, a treasure trove of expertise on all facets of storytelling and storywork.
There's never a better time to learn more about story than now! The more you know about the power and practice of story, the stronger a foundation you have for creating your own future.
Story wisdom is timeless wisdom.
Each of the 75 interviews included here spotlights a different aspect of story work. You'll learn about how to tell a compelling story, how to work with stories in communities and at work, why story is a modality that supports the move toward equality, healing from trauma and awakening potential. You'll learn how focusing on the power of story is shifting journalism, activism, international law and much, much more.
42 hours of recorded material
Originally priced at US$197, now $85
