THE ALCHEMY OF STORY


Learn Your Myths

Know Your Magic

Share Your Medicine

Learn Your
Myths

Know Your Magic

Share Your Medicine

The Alchemy of Story is a program that is designed for people passionate about using stories to inspire change— in their personal lives, and the world around them. You are provided an opportunity to cultivate your unique voice, gather stories from around the world as you create your own, and explore the art of storytelling through a holistic approach.


The program integrates traditional storytelling, earth-based practices, meditation, embodiment, and an understanding of life's interconnectedness. You will be guided through a process where you will learn how to engage storytelling as a means for fostering healing, self-discovery, and connection, with a strong focus on hands-on practice, peer feedback, and skill refinement. Featuring guest teachers from around the globe, the program provides diverse perspectives and expertise to enrich the learning experience. 


The full program is a 10-month commitment. For professionals, we have a certification program to prepare you for service to others.

The Alchemy of Story is a program that is designed for people passionate about using stories to inspire change— in their personal lives, and the world around them. You are provided an opportunity to cultivate your unique voice, gather stories from around the world as you create your own, and explore the art of storytelling through a holistic approach.


The program integrates traditional storytelling, earth-based practices, meditation, embodiment, and an understanding of life's interconnectedness. You will be guided through a process where you will learn how to engage storytelling as a means for fostering healing, self-discovery, and connection, with a strong focus on hands-on practice, peer feedback, and skill refinement. Featuring guest teachers from around the globe, the program provides diverse perspectives and expertise to enrich the learning experience. 


The full program is a 10-month commitment. For professionals, we have a certification program to prepare you for service to others.

Choose your path

Choose your
path

For Professionals:
Therapists, Coaches, Psychedelic Integrators

For Professionals:
Therapists, Coaches, Psychedelic Integrators

For Individuals:

Personal healing, opening your expression

For Individuals:

Personal healing, opening your expression

When we accept the greatness of the story we are living, we feed the essence of our soul.
When we accept the greatness of the story we are living, we feed the essence of our soul.

THE ALCHEMY OF STORY CURRICULUM

THE ALCHEMY
OF STORY
CURRICULUM

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THE ALCHEMY OF STORY
TOOLS FOR CHANGE

THE
ALCHEMY
OF STORY

TOOLS FOR CHANGE

THE ALCHEMY OF STORY

TOOLS FOR CHANGE

This program includes 5 six week creative intensives. Each intensive includes 3 guest teachers and concludes with a mini-story festival where you will have an opportunity to share your story. Over the course of this program you will be exposed to over 16 teachers from around the globe who will teach you tools and techniques to apply story as a tool for personal and global transformation.

This program includes 5 six week creative intensives. Each intensive includes 3 guest teachers and concludes with a mini-story festival where you will have an opportunity to share your story.

YOUR TEACHERS
YOUR TEACHERS
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
ALL-ACCESS

Essence

GETTING TO THE BONES OF YOUR STORY

Essence

GETTING TO THE BONES OF YOUR STORY

Essence

GETTING TO THE BONES OF YOUR STORY

Discover the Genius of Your Essence Through Storytelling

This journey begins by exploring the roots of your lineage stories and making the metaphorical literal. You'll learn how to connect with the wisdom of nature and uncover the origin stories of your land. Once grounded in history and place, the journey moves into the stories of your soul, accessing the power of the mythic imagination. Through earth-based practices and connection to your lineage, you'll unlock the strength hidden within your ancestral and personal stories.


Key Benefits of This Creative Intensive:

  • Amplify Inner Strength: Tap into unseen support and guidance you may not have realized was available.

  • Connect to Nature’s Wisdom: Learn how to call on and lean into the natural world for insight and strength.

  • Discover Wholeness: Unearth your personal mythos and experience the power of your unique story.

Join this transformational journey and discover how to live in alignment with your true essence.

Discover the Genius of Your Essence Through Storytelling

This journey begins by exploring the roots of your lineage stories and making the metaphorical literal. You'll learn how to connect with the wisdom of nature and uncover the origin stories of your land. Once grounded in history and place, the journey moves into the stories of your soul, accessing the power of the mythic imagination. Through earth-based practices and connection to your lineage, you'll unlock the strength hidden within your ancestral and personal stories.


Key Benefits of This Creative Intensive:

  • Amplify Inner Strength: Tap into unseen support and guidance you may not have realized was available.

  • Connect to Nature’s Wisdom: Learn how to call on and lean into the natural world for insight and strength.

  • Discover Wholeness: Unearth your personal mythos and experience the power of your unique story.

Join this transformational journey and discover how to live in alignment with your true essence.

Discover the Genius of Your Essence Through Storytelling

This journey begins by exploring the roots of your lineage stories and making the metaphorical literal. You'll learn how to connect with the wisdom of nature and uncover the origin stories of your land. Once grounded in history and place, the journey moves into the stories of your soul, accessing the power of the mythic imagination. Through earth-based practices and connection to your lineage, you'll unlock the strength hidden within your ancestral and personal stories.

YOUR TEACHERS
ALL-ACCESS

WISDOM
THE POWER & PURPOSE OF YOUR STORY

WISDOM
THE POWER & PURPOSE OF YOUR STORY

WISDOM
THE POWER & PURPOSE
OF YOUR STORY

Unlock the Power of Your Story

Learn how to engage storytelling as an initiatory process as you Identify where your life force is blocked by unhealed or unintegrated stories. Through guided practices, you’ll gain tools to harvest wisdom from your experiences, allowing your life to flow freely again. By the end, you’ll craft a powerful story that embodies the lessons and strength you’ve gained.

You’ll discover that the stories you once thought were too small or quiet hold profound wisdom and teachings. As you explore your inner world, these stories will reveal their transformative power, not just for you but for others. Your wisdom story will reflect your growth and the invaluable gifts you now offer.

Key Benefits of This Creative Intensive:

  • Increased Confidence: Recognize your story as a unique gift worth sharing.

  • Empowerment: Know you have a meaningful story to tell and the confidence to share it.

  • Healing: Transform disruptive stories and reclaim your power.

  • Personal Growth: Learn techniques to grow through your experiences, shaping your narrative rather than being defined by it.

  • Connection to Others: Create meaningful exchanges as your stories resonate with others.

This creative intensive will guide you in transforming your life experiences into wisdom stories that heal and inspire. Unlock the full potential of your voice and embrace the power of your story.

We’ll identify where your life force is blocked by unhealed or unintegrated stories. You’ll discover that the stories you once thought were too small or quiet hold profound wisdom and teachings. As you explore your inner world, the gems of your life experience will reveal— and with it — a new way to express strength, resilience, grace, and humor!

Key Benefits of This Creative Intensive:


  • Increased Confidence: Recognize your story as a unique gift worth sharing.


  • Empowerment: Know you have a meaningful story to tell and the confidence to share it.


  • Healing: Transform disruptive stories and reclaim your power.


  • Personal Growth: Learn techniques to grow through your experiences, shaping your narrative rather than being defined by it.


  • Connection to Others: Create meaningful exchanges as your stories resonate with others.


YOUR TEACHERS
THIS ONE MODULE
THIS ONE MODULE
ALL- ACCESS

MEDICINE
THE HEALING NATURE OF STORY

MEDICINE
THE HEALING NATURE OF STORY

MEDICINE
THE HEALING NATURE OF STORY

Embark on a transformative journey where your life story becomes a powerful source of healing and growth. Our innovative course, "Storytelling as Medicine," guides you through a profound exploration of your personal narrative, unlocking hidden potential and fostering deep self-discovery. By harnessing the therapeutic power of storytelling, you'll learn to reframe challenges, release blocked energy, and emerge with a renewed sense of purpose.

Key Benefits:

  • Discover the healing potential within your personal story

  • Learn powerful storytelling techniques to process and overcome trauma

  • Unlock creativity and self-expression through guided narrative exercises

  • Identify and release emotional blockages hindering your growth

  • Develop resilience by reframing life's challenges as opportunities

  • Acquire tools to extract wisdom from your experiences

  • Enhance your communication skills for both personal and professional settings

  • Foster deeper connections with others through authentic storytelling

  • Gain confidence in sharing your unique perspective with the world

  • Create a compelling personal narrative that inspires others

  • Cultivate a greater sense of self-awareness and emotional intelligence

  • Learn to use storytelling as a daily practice for ongoing personal growth

YOUR TEACHERS
THIS ONE MODULE
THIS ONE MODULE
ALL- ACCESS

CHANGE
BRING YOUR STORY TO THE WORLD

CHANGE
BRING YOUR STORY TO THE WORLD

CHANGE
BRING YOUR STORY TO THE WORLD

We will turn our focus to engaging your voice as a tool for change as we turn out attention toward what you care about in the world. You will learn how to create Teaching Stories and Vision Stories. You’ll learn how to make stories work for you as you create teaching stories for others and how to create a vision story council with your community. Finally, you will have an opportunity to create an artistic expression to raise awareness about or protect something you care about.

YOUR TEACHERS
THIS ONE MODULE
THIS ONE MODULE
ALL- ACCESS

CEREMONY
CELEBRATING YOUR STORY TOGETHER

CEREMONY
CELEBRATING YOUR STORY TOGETHER

CEREMONY
CELEBRATING YOUR STORY TOGETHER

We will travel to where you have been initiated by life as we examine where your life force is blocked by unhealed stories. As we reestablish the flow of your life, you will learn tools and techniques to harvest the wisdom from your experience, and you will come out with a powerful story to tell.

YOUR TEACHERS
THIS ONE MODULE
THIS ONE MODULE
ALL- ACCESS

What Makes this CURRICULUM Unique?

What Makes this CURRICULUM Unique?

a community around a fire

Ancient & Indigenous Perspectives

Experience storytelling in its fullest by connecting with ancient tales and master storytellers deeply rooted in their oral traditions. Learn from guest mentors of Indigenous lineages as you explore diverse cultures and practices that honor storytelling as a sacred and time-honored art.

a community around a fire

Healing Practices


This is where we put alchemy into practice as we learn tangible practical tools and techniques for how to weave our story with healing modalities. You will learn rituals, earth based practices, and exercises as you learn how to engage storytelling as a healing tool from a different master in each module.

Healing Practices

people talking and listening

Storytelling Techniques

You’ll learn from master teachers of storytelling and writing, focusing on the craftsmanship that brings stories to life. This emphasis on “hard skills” will enhance your technical abilities, providing you with the tools and techniques needed to source, craft, build, and tell your stories more effectively.

There are those who shape the world they live in, and there are those who live in a world shaped by others

testimonials

testimonials

Wendy Resnick

I am excited and inspired by the creative force that the entire group experiences, I have finally released an old story that wasn't serving me in my life; and have created a new story that has set me free. I am so grateful to the power of story and to Leah for her compassionate and skillful guidance through this invaluable personal growth process.

Gigi Pomerantz

 I learned to look at my own stories and let go of what doesn't serve me and learn to create a new story.  One filled with strength, generosity, hope and JOY!  This class was transformative for me.  After man.y years of muddling along, I feel I now have a tool to move FORWARD

Julianna Coles

An initiation ... an activation our imagination, our courage, our intuition, our magic

Donna Mortensen

A beautiful container where it's safe to be brave.

Roslyn McGrath

I was still believing my life was limited by my partner's trauma. I was also unaware of how my grandparents' beliefs about love played into my own, and how often I had coped with challenges through silence and attempted stoicism. Now, on the other side, I am feeling lighter, softer, clearer, and also gentler with myself. There is healing.

Laura Jasper

I'm still in awe at the whole process, how the creative story moved and came to life throughout, how I was a part of it, in it, it sparked thoughts, ideas, imagination. and memories all into alchemy

Ana Salcedo Guimaraes

It touched so many chords of knowing in my soul, that i feel inspired, enlivened and emboldened to step deeper into commitment in walking the sacred path of Story Ceremony. It was an initiation on its own, gifting tools for supporting further initiation in others. My heart is blossoming with gratitude and delight in the mystery of not knowing where this path may lead me, but in the allowing of having been totally swollen by Story Ceremony.

Fred Mindlin

I feel honored by the opportunity to work with such an inspired and dedicated teacher. Leah’s  approach is transformative and therapeutic. She accomplishes a magical and seemingly impossible feat of facilitation: creating a safe and yet dangerously edgy container for deep exploration and shared reflection. She is a blessing and a treasure.

Elora Lydia

Very beautifully and well thought out. It has been an unmatched experience

Jacqui Bushell

Leah ignited my access to a greater creative flow. It opened the way for sacred story to be a potent foundation for transformation, healing and vision. It’s a dynamic and supportive forum I’ll utilise more to explore the BIG questions in life with group. Leah effortlessly switched us from personal to collective to archetypal awareness so we could dive into the power of story to facilitate change.

An Interactive &
Experiential Course

An Interactive &
Experiential Course

Weekly Creative Prompts + New Skill Development
Weekly Creative Prompts + New Skill Development

Throughout this storytelling training, each module offers immersive experiences designed to push your creative boundaries. You’ll engage in creative exercises, meditations, group activities, prompts, and journaling that invite you to explore new ways of connecting with both story and yourself.

By the end of the program, you’ll have a solid foundation in how storytelling can be used in council circles, grief work, trauma healing, and beyond. Most importantly, you’ll feel lighter—free from the emotional baggage you’ve been carrying for years, ready to move forward with clarity and purpose.

Life time access to your videos and learning materials
Life time access to your videos and learning materials

Enjoy lifetime access to all course materials, including videos, downloadable PDFs, and valuable insights from your peers on our exclusive online platform. Stay inspired and connected with a community that supports your ongoing growth and creativity.


Your Group of Greatness
Your Group of Greatness

Join a vibrant, live community of individuals on the same transformative path. Experience the power of collective storytelling, real-time feedback, and shared inspiration. Working together in this space, you’ll deepen your practice, gain valuable insights, and forge meaningful connections t.hat enrich your creative journey.

You. On Stage. Every course ends with a Mini Story Festival on Zoom
You. On Stage. Every course ends with a Mini Story Festival on Zoom

At the end of each course, you’ll showcase your story in our Mini-Story Festival, a powerful event where you can invite friends and family to witness your creative evolution. You’ll present your latest story to a warm, supportive community that is excited to celebrate your growth and unique voice.

This isn’t just a performance—it’s an opportunity to refine your storytelling skills, build lasting confidence, and experience the true joy of sharing stories that matter. With every festival, you’ll not only deepen your craft but also gain invaluable feedback and encouragement, helping you become the storyteller you’re meant to be.


This program is a space to experience
yourself as a more whole person

There are those who shape the world they live in, and there are those who live in a world shaped by others

This program is a space to experience yourself as a more whole person

Your Guide

Your Guide

When you work with Leah, you’ll be guided to engage with story as a tool for personal healing, growth, and transformation. Over the past 7 years, Leah has served more than 1,000 conscious creators like yourself, supported by over 40 guest teachers. Her programs help you unlock the potential of storytelling to liberate your consciousness and express your fullest self.

Leah weaves her professional experience in theater, filmmaking, healing, and wilderness studies to revive the ancient art of sacred storytelling in today’s world. Through her courses, retreats, and workshops, you’ll explore the deep connections between story, earth, spirit, and healing, gaining access to new levels of awareness and mastery over your own narrative.

Participants in Leah’s programs come away with a greater understanding of how to use story as an ancient healing art, transforming both themselves and their communities. Her spaces are designed for deep exploration, empowering you to tap into the unseen world and awaken your creative potential.

By joining Leah’s Sacred Storytelling experiences, you’ll transform your inner landscape, master the art of story, and gain tools to deepen your connection with yourself, others, and the world around you.

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The alchemy of story at a glance

The alchemy of story at a glance

The alchemy of story at a glance

The full program is a 10-month commitment. For professionals, we have a certification program to prepare you for service to others.

The full program is a 10-month commitment. For professionals, we have a certification program to prepare you for service to others.

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Creative Intensives

9

Teachers who will teach new skills and techniques

77

hours of live interactive class time

111

Hours of pre-recorded wisdom in the Master Teacher Library

200

New ideas Generated every hour