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
Join at any time
THE STORY DOJO Online Community
THE STORY DOJO was created as a place to explore, ideate and practice the power of story. Join us around the virtual campfire as we inquire into a new topic and build capacity and companionship each month.
Your membership includes:
Fireside Conversation: On the second Monday of the month a speaker or speakers join us to give voice to our theme. Calls last 90 minutes and are recoded.
Story Café: A place to meet casually around the fire and talk about story or adjourn to a "private table" and talk about the topic of your choice. Join us on the fourth Monday of the month any time during the two hour window.
Includes a digital library of 50+ hours of content: Eight sessions speaker + Q&A sessions from the 65 ALIVE! livestream series and 75 interviews from the STORY THE FUTURE Online Summit. That's 42 hours of recorded material!
Online meetings second and fourth Monday each month
Both monthly and annual membership available
February 1 - 5
65 ALIVE!
Add some fuel to your fire and start 2022 with five days on the power & practice of story. We feature a new theme and new story practitioners, thought leaders and artists every day.
Our focus is storymaking & story shaping.
View the 65 minute livestream in THE STORY DOJO Facebook group, or join the Zoom call for the full 90 minutes including Q&A with the daily guests.
Our themes are:
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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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Letting the wolf in: Thinking about and working with difficult stories
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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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Women & men & power: What do our stories tell us about how women and men see power? Where do we go from here?
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Story as activism: When we change our stories, we can change the world. What does that look like in practice?
Starts February 16
Beyond Facilitation: The Secrets of Extraordinary Hosting
A series of short courses taking you into the heart of hosting to deepen your skills, your awareness and your practice.
Based on the Art of Hosting practice field, take a deeper look at the methodologies and maps that underpin the leading edge of participatory group process. We put a special emphasis on how story can become your most trusted process partners. And I show you how story is "the secret sauce" of extraordinary hosting.
Choose the whole four course meal or select "a la carte."
February 16, 2022: Mastering the Fourfold Practice
March 2: Navigating the 8 Breaths of Process Architecture
March 16: Story: The secret sauce to great hosting
March 30: Finding the gold in Lived Experience -- Applying the Collective Story Harvest method
With Amy Lenzo
You pick the date
Circle of Clarity & Courage
It has been a long exile in pandemic-land, but a new time is coming. Who will you be then?
It's been a long time on hold, a time when the world shrank down to a screen on the desktop. We've all been wondering about the shape of the future and who we will be when we finally emerge.
Three steps can lead to clarity and a sense of fresh direction, with others at your back as you uncover your next steps:
- Choose a story from your life
- Shape a question
- Bring it to the Flow Game
Together with a small circle of players we'll go on a journey that will move you from stuck to sure, and from uncertain to confident.
Find out more about the Circle and reserve your spot at the table!
Four hours
March 6 - 13
By The Fireside
With all the challenges in life, it can be easy to forget the person who most needs your attention, you. The most positive thing you can give to yourself is the gift of knowing and owning your story. Being at home in yourself means the past can offer up wisdom, the present can be an opportunity and the future can present unexpected gifts. With story as your ally you know yourself as capable, confident, and competent. You can weather what comes.
Join us around the virtual campfire for a deeply personal journey into your own story. We will support you to turn your story from what defines you into your champion for success.
If you are wondering who you are now, and where your story goes from here; if you want to understand yourself so you can step forward with strength and vision; if you're looking for companions to help you face the unknown with curiosity and courage, then BY THE FIRESIDE is for you.
Let us host you into your own brilliance!
A week long intensive
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
Starts January 17
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.
The perfect lead up to Valentine's Day
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$97
From now until January 15, 2022 we are offering IMAGINE for FREE to anyone 30 years of age or younger and a choice of prices to everyone else (see above)
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$97
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 $125
Hear story thought leaders
65 ALIVE! (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 $65
