Personal Mythmaking
Personal Mythmaking
 

Outline Your Memoir

Using Fairy Tale & Myth as Your Guide

Sometimes it feels daunting to write your lifestory down.

So let’s start sorting through and organizing all the details you need to structure your memoir inside this free live workshop with Janelle Hardy.

Wednesday January 22nd
9am PST | 2.5 productive hours

 
 
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You’ve always wanted to write your memoir.

You feel a pull to work with and craft your lifestory, to heal and transform.

It all feels like a calling, a joyful and terrifying challenge you can’t avoid, yet somehow keep avoiding.

Because when you’re called to something, you can’t set it aside.

The calling keeps tapping you on the shoulder, subtly tickling your feet, and sometimes not-so-subtly whacking you – metaphorically – until you heed the call.

The call to turn and face your stories. Your lineages. Your legacy. And start writing it down. Start exploring. Start healing.

But you wonder if:

  • your story is interesting.

  • you’ll be opening too many cans of worms to manage.

  • you might hurt someone or many someones in the process of examining your own life. And you don’t want to cause more pain, to yourself or others.

  • you’ll get overwhelmed.

  • if you’re deluding yourself.

  • if you’ll be a terrible writer.

So you just keep putting it off. Because of this you’re starting to feel frustrated. Pent up.

 

“After listening to your Outline Your Memoir workshop I want to thank you for offering a way to access the more important themes in one's life. 

Simple on one level, complex on another, and elegant throughout! 

I could have used your workshop when writing my first book, The Light a Body Radiates, which drew from elements of my life. 

I'll pass your information to other writers I know, especially anyone working on a memoir.”

ethel whitty

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I want you to know you don’t have to do it all at once, or all alone.

Let’s look at your vast, storied and varied lives and get started with writing it all down.

We’ll start by outlining by identifying underlying structures and patterns, using … fairy tales and myth.

Exploring ancient tales (like fairy tale and myth) we resonate with help us identify archetypal narrative arcs, symbols, patterns and themes in our life experiences.

It’s fun and insightful, I promise.

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In this workshop you’ll review your life so far, clarify patterns and themes and then draw out the structure of your stories in a swift plunge into your own fascinating self.

BY THE END OF THIS WORKSHOP YOU’LL HAVE:

  • Created a timeline of your life stories, and working with a fairy tale or myth

  • Learned about rites of passage (both the known and the unknown), moments of decision, and how they apply to your life experiences

  • Discovered your pivotal experiences, and how they can be turned into stories

  • Clarifyed the themes and patterns at play in your life (perhaps some you never knew were there) using fairy tale and myth

  • Created a brief outline of your memoir

This is an in-depth and productive 2.5 hour workshop where we’ll do the work to pull together all the pieces of your life experiences, a fairy tale or myth, your life timeline, rites of passage and pivotal moments.

By the end you’ll have a clear outline for your memoir providing you with the structure and clarity you need to keep moving forward.

Join me in this workshop and let’s start outlining your memoir together.

A 2.5 hour in-depth free workshop where you’ll learn:

  • How I (Janelle) made the connections between my life stories and my healing journey by combining fairy tales, personal writing and my body

  • Why and how memoir-writing is related to healing

And you’ll receive:

  • A replay recording

  • Resources for further healing, including suggestions for integrating the workshop into your writing life

  • A discount for my transformational and body-centric memoir-writing course, The Art of Personal Mythmaking

You’ll finish with:

  • Enthusiasm!!

  • a timeline of your life so far

  • a detailed map of the themes that have dominated your life

  • ideas and inspiration and a plan for where to start and what to focus on

  • brainstorming documents to support your memoir writing efforts

  • a playful sense of the future direction of your life

Save your seat for this free live workshop and join us to outline your memoir!

“That was an amazing session!

I am so impressed with the insightful process you’ve developed, how well organized the session was, and the kindness and encouragement you expressed throughout.

Thanks for allowing me to experience it.”

Alicia T.

"Your Outline Your Memoir workshop was massively transformative for me."

Heidi, Ohio

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Hi there!

My name is Janelle and I help people like you write their memoirs, reclaim their lives and reconnect with their bodies so they can feel at ease with their lives and their stories.

I’ve got a particular passion for our individual and cultural stories, a deep reverence for the power of stories and identity, and great respect for the immensely beautiful force of questioning our stories, even as we honour them.

I work with creative, sensitive big-hearted folk, helping them to grow, heal and thrive.

I’ve been working as a somatic healer for 17+ years and teaching adults for 20+ years. I’m also a published writer and have taught creative arts, writing and healing workshops online and in person for almost as long.

I’m skilled at braiding creativity and body-wisdom together with deep cultural knowing and self exploration (and life stories and memoirs are a great way to do that) to create spaciousness, ease and joy in our lives.

What this means for you is that I’ve got an uncommon ability to listen deeply, ask useful questions, see patterns, draw threads together, do my research and guide you towards your goals.

So let’s step towards our calling, towards our stories, towards our personal mythologies, and start the mythmaking.

Join me in outlining your memoir. It’ll be playful, fun and rich!

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“After taking part in the Outline Your Memoir Workshop my stories felt enlivened, emboldened, & newly embodied.

My perspective shifted so drastically about the possibilities of writing my own memoir that it was as if I'd jumped on a rocket to the International Space Station, looked homeward, & saw the orb of the Earth contrasted with the vastness of space with my own eyes.

Being gifted this new perspective felt both liberating & daunting."

Kate Marie Cofsky, Nomadic Artist & Women's Immersion Guide

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • An email account. The link to the workshop videocall will be send to you via e-mail. Access to the internet. Our videocalls require being connected to the internet. Time. This will workshop will take two productive hours. Optional: earbuds/headphones so the sound quality is better (recommended if you’ve got background noise and/or get distracted by background noise.)

  • Good question!

    Writing a memoir takes a lot of time and energy.

    However, getting started on a memoir requires a bit of structure first. You need to know what you want to focus on, where your starting points are, what the ‘lay of the land’ is, so to speak.

    This workshop gives you enough of a plan to get started with confidence and optimism.

  • Absolutely. I also offer an online 13-module transformational memoir-writing course The Art of Personal Mythmaking. You can take this as a self-directed process, as well as a live, 6-month weekly classroom experience (once a year). It’s rich, deep and wonderful. But you have to do this workshop first anyways, so let’s start here.

  • Thanks for asking.

    I’ve got an exceptional amount of skill, training and experience in interviewing, writing, working with people one-on-one in a healing environment, and drawing out stories.

    I’ve been working as a trauma-informed Structural Integrator (Rolfing) doing one-on-one hands-on healing bodywork for 17+ years, am a couple months away from full certification as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and have teaching individuals and groups for 20+ years.

    I’m also a published writer with a BA in Anthropology, an MA in Dance and a Diploma in Hellerwork Structural Integration. I’ve worked as a research assistant at Yukon Archives, as a teacher and teaching assistant at various colleges and universities, and taught creative writing and healing workshops online and in person.

    I’m a great listener and I’m always attuned for patterns, deeper meanings and great stories.

    I have an appreciation for context, history, and take the role of helping people birth their creations into the world very seriously (without forgetting that fun is important!)

  • Yes, I always send out a replay right after the workshop ends.

    The replay is usually available for between 6 to 10 days, so make sure to plan to watch the replay soon!

Outline Your Memoir

a free live workshop hosted by Janelle Hardy

Sometimes it feels daunting to write your lifestory down.

So let’s start sorting through and organizing all the details you need to structure your memoir inside this workshop.

Wednesday january 22nd

9Am PST | 2.5 productive hours