Storytelling can be a powerful tool for transformation.

I’m the founder of Mindwriters, a workshop series that uses storytelling to help participants address challenges in new ways and reshape their perspectives about themselves and the world.

Mindwriters workshops are lively and interactive, and can be tailored to any group environment, be it a company retreat, a recovery center, or a private event. Sessions involve ample time for guided writing exercises and shared reflections, and are grounded in narrative therapy principles—an emerging technique that focuses on re-interpreting our lived experiences in order to rewrite our internal stories.

To help inform the development of Mindwriters, I spent a year studying narrative therapy at the Evanston Family Therapy Center.