The Heroine's Journey
Begins Sept 28th
6 Sessions Every Other Sunday
4-6pm PT/ 7-9PM ET
The Heroine's Journey
Overview
Since the dawn of storytelling, humans have been sharing tales of liberation. Joseph Campbell popularized the Hero’s Journey, the masculine path to freedom driven by the need to conquer fear. But there is another way to liberate yourself: The Heroine’s Journey. As ancient, and at least as potent as the Hero’s Journey, the compass for the feminine journey is not fear, but love. Love instigates the story. Love illuminates the road. And love, ultimately, liberates our Heroine. And here’s the key: that love is self-love.
From celebrities like Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey, to global leaders like Nelson Mandela and Gloria Steinem, and fictional characters like Jane Eyre and Harry Potter, many of our culture’s most beloved people followed the Heroine’s Journey. Which is the story of the seed choosing to sprout. The tale of one who chooses to trust—despite internal and external resistance—their longing to unfurl towards the light. How can we learn from this timeless story structure--and those who’ve been liberated by it--so we can make this same choice in our own lives?
This course invites you to draw upon the story of your own life—past, present, and future—to explore the liberating power of the Heroine's Journey.
Each week, I'll illuminate specific aspects of the Heroine's Journey to help you understand how it can apply to you. We'll engage in guided visualizations, writing exercises, and group sharing to discover how the path of choosing one's light catalyzes healing—not just for you, but for those around you, too.
Overview
Since the dawn of storytelling, humans have been sharing tales of liberation. Joseph Campbell popularized the Hero’s Journey, the masculine path to freedom driven by the need to conquer fear. But there is another way to liberate yourself: The Heroine’s Journey. As ancient, and at least as potent as the Hero’s Journey, the compass for the feminine journey is not fear, but love. Love instigates the story. Love illuminates the road. And love, ultimately, liberates our Heroine. And here’s the key: that love is self-love.
From celebrities like Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey, to global leaders like Nelson Mandela and Gloria Steinem, and fictional characters like Jane Eyre and Harry Potter, many of our culture’s most beloved people followed the Heroine’s Journey. Which is the story of the seed choosing to sprout. The tale of one who chooses to trust—despite internal and external resistance—their longing to unfurl towards the light. How can we learn from this timeless story structure--and those who’ve been liberated by it--so we can make this same choice in our own lives?
This course invites you to draw upon the story of your own life—past, present, and future—to explore the liberating power of the Heroine's Journey.
Each week, I'll illuminate specific aspects of the Heroine's Journey to help you understand how it can apply to you. We'll engage in guided visualizations, writing exercises, and group sharing to discover how the path of choosing one's light catalyzes healing—not just for you, but for those around you, too.
What you EXPERIENCE IN THIS JOURNEY:
What you EXPERIENCE IN THIS JOURNEY:
6 Two-Hour Deep Dive Interactive Sessions
Life Time Access to Recordings of teaching content
Activities and practices that apply to your personal life
Guided Meditations & Visualizations
Template for the arch of the heroine's journey that you can apply your life story
your steps on this journey:
Your Steps on this journey:
Week 1: Finding Yourself on the Map
Week 1: Finding Yourself on the Map
The Heroine's Journey – Discovering Your Current Location
In this 2-hour session, we'll explore the beat points, or narrative moments, in the Heroine's Journey. We'll engage in an exercise to help you recognize where you are—right now—in your journey as a Heroine.
Everyone will receive a Template Map to use in their own discovery process.
Week Two: Two Paths to Liberation
Week Two:
Two Paths to Liberation
The Heroine's Journey & The Hero's Journey: What's the Difference?
A deep dive into the fundamental differences between these two ancient story structures. You can liberate yourself by following either the masculine or the feminine path through change. We'll explore the motivations, road maps, and final destinations for both of these journeys, illuminating them so you can recognize the value of both, and make an informed decision about which one best serves you at any given moment in the story of your life.
Week Three: The Wounded Healer
Week Three: The Wounded Healer
Healing as Transformation
In this session, we'll explore how the Heroine's wounds become the source of her healing power. Through the stages of the Virgin's Journey, we'll see how she restores what has been broken, not through conquest but through love, integration, and connection. Healing becomes the path that transforms both self and community.
Week Four: The Shadow Side
Week Four: The Shadow Side
The Tale of the Anti-Heroine
What is the tale of the anti-heroine? The one who chooses not to follow her light. We'll use archetypes to help us explore the feminine path of subjugation, rather than liberation.
In any story, the moment of transformation occurs when you must choose between two similarly weighted options. Both carry a charge that draws you to them. Both want to be chosen by you. You must want them both in almost equal measure. If the longing for both doesn't exist, it's not a moment of transformation. If you don't want your own captivity almost as much, or even more, than you want your own liberation—then it isn't a turning point. It's just another stepping stone.
To authentically meet this moment, you must acknowledge the pull of remaining a captive. Why is it alluring? What does it feel like, look like, taste like? What are the visceral dimensions of this alternative path?
Week Five: Honoring Your Past
Week Five: Honoring Your Past
The Story of Your Past
This week, through a guided visualization, each of us will unearth a story from our past when we followed the Heroine's Journey to completion.
Using the template map, and the wisdom we've gleaned from all previous sessions, we'll engage in writing exercises that allow us to own the power of the choice we made to choose our own internal light. What impact did this choice have on us? On others? How did it change our lives? Alter the world around us?
Week Six: Creating Your Future
Week Six: Creating Your Future
The Journey Forward
During the final week, we'll write the stories of our futures.
We will use the time we're together to visualize (through a guided meditation) where we will be when we unearth our deepest desires and allow ourselves to follow where this deep desire might lead us.
We'll then write these revelations down, recording them in words so we have a road map for our own personal journeys, a healing path we can follow to a life of greater joy and freedom.
Thoughts From Alumni
Thoughts From Alumni
- Amy's courses open you up to your own miracles, previously unseen.
- Amy Cheney, Juvenile Justice Literacy Project
Amy’s courses create a nurturing, supportive, and truly beautiful shared creative space that allows you to reconnect with your own voice and the voices of others in the most delightful, resonant, and often deeply revelatory ways.
- Aimee CubbageWorking with Amy is a gift everyone should be lucky enough to experience. Amy is uniquely suited for this work: her diverse life experiences and her remarkable talent as a writer give her deep insight into the craft.
- Fay Masterson- Amy's courses open you up to your own miracles, previously unseen.
- Amy Cheney, Juvenile Justice Literacy Project
Amy’s courses create a nurturing, supportive, and truly beautiful shared creative space that allows you to reconnect with your own voice and the voices of others in the most delightful, resonant, and often deeply revelatory ways.
- Aimee CubbageWorking with Amy is a gift everyone should be lucky enough to experience. Amy is uniquely suited for this work: her diverse life experiences and her remarkable talent as a writer give her deep insight into the craft.
- Fay Masterson- Amy's courses open you up to your own miracles, previously unseen.
- Amy Cheney, Juvenile Justice Literacy Project
Amy’s courses create a nurturing, supportive, and truly beautiful shared creative space that allows you to reconnect with your own voice and the voices of others in the most delightful, resonant, and often deeply revelatory ways.
- Aimee CubbageWorking with Amy is a gift everyone should be lucky enough to experience. Amy is uniquely suited for this work: her diverse life experiences and her remarkable talent as a writer give her deep insight into the craft.
- Fay Masterson- Amy's courses open you up to your own miracles, previously unseen.
- Amy Cheney, Juvenile Justice Literacy Project
Amy’s courses create a nurturing, supportive, and truly beautiful shared creative space that allows you to reconnect with your own voice and the voices of others in the most delightful, resonant, and often deeply revelatory ways.
- Aimee CubbageWorking with Amy is a gift everyone should be lucky enough to experience. Amy is uniquely suited for this work: her diverse life experiences and her remarkable talent as a writer give her deep insight into the craft.
- Fay Masterson
Your Guide
Your Guide
Amy Henderson is a writer and story doula who has spent over two decades helping people discover and express their most authentic truths on the page. She has guided a remarkable range of voices—from incarcerated teens to Broadway performers, from the unhoused to bestselling authors, from social justice advocates to corporate leaders—in crafting their stories with power and purpose. Amy's work is grounded in the belief that everyone called to the craft can come home to themselves through words on the page.
Amy’s work and writing has been featured in the Sun Magazine, The Harvard Business Review, Slate, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, and InStyle. Her book, "Tending" was published by NationBuilder Books in 2021.
Q&A:
Q: Do I need to identify as storyteller, a healer, a guide, or anything in order to attend this class?
A: No. All you need is a desire to be open to understanding story as a tool you use in your every day life. You may want to use this knowledge for yourself, or you may want to support others with this information, or you may want to keep this information in your back pocket for a rainy day.
Q: How much time will be asked of me?
A: We have 6 classes that meet for 2 hours every other Sunday (12 hours). All class teachings are recorded, so if you miss a class you can always catch up.
A lot of our creative time happens in our time together, and you are also invited to deepen your creative practice outside of class. For those who want accountability partners: you will have an opportunity to meet with a group outside of class (this is not required).
OUR CANCELLATION POLICY:
The nature of the work of learning to create a new story while stepping into living a new story will invite you to leave your comfort zone. You will be invited to meet the edges of what you are familiar with over and over, and be given the tools to play there. There is a powerful field that supports movement and growth when you are playing a part in a collective where everyone is committed to keep showing up-- to move through the blocks and the uncomfortable places. This cancellation policy is not just about business, it is about doing what we can to ensure that we are all in this together, engaging and using the tools of sacred storytelling to face whatever discomfort or challenges may present. Therefore, by registering for this course, you are signing up to to go the distance.
Cancellation within 48 hours of when class begins:
Occasionally someone walks into a first class, and in the first moments realizes they are not in the place that is in alignment for them. If this is you, you will receive a refund - a $30 admin fee. We thank you for your ally ship in understanding that there are admin costs associated with dropping out of a class and we still pay the entire paypal fee of your tuition regardless of if you are refunded.
Cancellation 48 hours after class begins:
Occasionally major changes in life situations happen, such as a death or massive transition that prevents you from attending. We are understanding of these moments; if you need to drop out after the 2nd class, your tuition can be applied to the tuition of a future class, - $30 admin fee.
Begins Sept 28th
6 Sessions Every Other Sunday
4-6pm PT/ 7-9PM ET
The Heroine's Journey
Begins Sept 28th
6 Sessions Every Other Sunday
4-6pm PT/ 7-9PM ET
The Heroine's Journey
Overview
Since the dawn of storytelling, humans have been sharing tales of liberation. Joseph Campbell popularized the Hero’s Journey, the masculine path to freedom driven by the need to conquer fear. But there is another way to liberate yourself: The Heroine’s Journey. As ancient, and at least as potent as the Hero’s Journey, the compass for the feminine journey is not fear, but love. Love instigates the story. Love illuminates the road. And love, ultimately, liberates our Heroine. And here’s the key: that love is self-love.
From celebrities like Taylor Swift and Oprah Winfrey, to global leaders like Nelson Mandela and Gloria Steinem, and fictional characters like Jane Eyre and Harry Potter, many of our culture’s most beloved people followed the Heroine’s Journey. Which is the story of the seed choosing to sprout. The tale of one who chooses to trust—despite internal and external resistance—their longing to unfurl towards the light. How can we learn from this timeless story structure--and those who’ve been liberated by it--so we can make this same choice in our own lives?
This course invites you to draw upon the story of your own life—past, present, and future—to explore the liberating power of the Heroine's Journey.
Each week, I'll illuminate specific aspects of the Heroine's Journey to help you understand how it can apply to you. We'll engage in guided visualizations, writing exercises, and group sharing to discover how the path of choosing one's light catalyzes healing—not just for you, but for those around you, too.
What you EXPERIENCE IN THIS JOURNEY:
What you EXPERIENCE IN THIS JOURNEY:
6 Two-Hour Deep Dive Interactive Sessions
Life Time Access to Recordings of teaching content
Activities and practices that apply to your personal life
Guided Meditations & Visualizations
Template for the arch of the heroine's journey that you can apply your life story
your steps on this journey:
Your Steps on this journey:
Week 1: Finding Yourself on the Map
The Heroine's Journey – Discovering Your Current Location
In this 2-hour session, we'll explore the beat points, or narrative moments, in the Heroine's Journey. We'll engage in an exercise to help you recognize where you are—right now—in your journey as a Heroine.
Everyone will receive a Template Map to use in their own discovery process.
Week Two: Two Paths to Liberation
The Heroine's Journey & The Hero's Journey: What's the Difference?
A deep dive into the fundamental differences between these two ancient story structures. You can liberate yourself by following either the masculine or the feminine path through change. We'll explore the motivations, road maps, and final destinations for both of these journeys, illuminating them so you can recognize the value of both, and make an informed decision about which one best serves you at any given moment in the story of your life.
Week Three: The Wounded Healer
Healing as Transformation
In this session, we'll explore how the Heroine's wounds become the source of her healing power. Through the stages of the Virgin's Journey, we'll see how she restores what has been broken, not through conquest but through love, integration, and connection. Healing becomes the path that transforms both self and community.
Week Four: The Shadow Side
The Tale of the Anti-Heroine
What is the tale of the anti-heroine? The one who chooses not to follow her light. We'll use archetypes to help us explore the feminine path of subjugation, rather than liberation.
In any story, the moment of transformation occurs when you must choose between two similarly weighted options. Both carry a charge that draws you to them. Both want to be chosen by you. You must want them both in almost equal measure. If the longing for both doesn't exist, it's not a moment of transformation. If you don't want your own captivity almost as much, or even more, than you want your own liberation—then it isn't a turning point. It's just another stepping stone.
To authentically meet this moment, you must acknowledge the pull of remaining a captive. Why is it alluring? What does it feel like, look like, taste like? What are the visceral dimensions of this alternative path?
Week Five: Honoring Your Past
The Story of Your Past
This week, through a guided visualization, each of us will unearth a story from our past when we followed the Heroine's Journey to completion.
Using the template map, and the wisdom we've gleaned from all previous sessions, we'll engage in writing exercises that allow us to own the power of the choice we made to choose our own internal light. What impact did this choice have on us? On others? How did it change our lives? Alter the world around us?
Week Six: Creating Your Future
The Journey Forward
During the final week, we'll write the stories of our futures.
We will use the time we're together to visualize (through a guided meditation) where we will be when we unearth our deepest desires and allow ourselves to follow where this deep desire might lead us.
We'll then write these revelations down, recording them in words so we have a road map for our own personal journeys, a healing path we can follow to a life of greater joy and freedom.
Thoughts From Alumni
- Amy's courses open you up to your own miracles, previously unseen.
- Amy Cheney, Juvenile Justice Literacy Project
Amy’s courses create a nurturing, supportive, and truly beautiful shared creative space that allows you to reconnect with your own voice and the voices of others in the most delightful, resonant, and often deeply revelatory ways.
- Aimee CubbageWorking with Amy is a gift everyone should be lucky enough to experience. Amy is uniquely suited for this work: her diverse life experiences and her remarkable talent as a writer give her deep insight into the craft.
- Fay Masterson- Amy's courses open you up to your own miracles, previously unseen.
- Amy Cheney, Juvenile Justice Literacy Project
Amy’s courses create a nurturing, supportive, and truly beautiful shared creative space that allows you to reconnect with your own voice and the voices of others in the most delightful, resonant, and often deeply revelatory ways.
- Aimee CubbageWorking with Amy is a gift everyone should be lucky enough to experience. Amy is uniquely suited for this work: her diverse life experiences and her remarkable talent as a writer give her deep insight into the craft.
- Fay Masterson- Amy's courses open you up to your own miracles, previously unseen.
- Amy Cheney, Juvenile Justice Literacy Project
Amy’s courses create a nurturing, supportive, and truly beautiful shared creative space that allows you to reconnect with your own voice and the voices of others in the most delightful, resonant, and often deeply revelatory ways.
- Aimee CubbageWorking with Amy is a gift everyone should be lucky enough to experience. Amy is uniquely suited for this work: her diverse life experiences and her remarkable talent as a writer give her deep insight into the craft.
- Fay Masterson- Amy's courses open you up to your own miracles, previously unseen.
- Amy Cheney, Juvenile Justice Literacy Project
Amy’s courses create a nurturing, supportive, and truly beautiful shared creative space that allows you to reconnect with your own voice and the voices of others in the most delightful, resonant, and often deeply revelatory ways.
- Aimee CubbageWorking with Amy is a gift everyone should be lucky enough to experience. Amy is uniquely suited for this work: her diverse life experiences and her remarkable talent as a writer give her deep insight into the craft.
- Fay Masterson
Your Guide
Amy Henderson is a writer and story doula who has spent over two decades helping people discover and express their most authentic truths on the page. She has guided a remarkable range of voices—from incarcerated teens to Broadway performers, from the unhoused to bestselling authors, from social justice advocates to corporate leaders—in crafting their stories with power and purpose. Amy's work is grounded in the belief that everyone called to the craft can come home to themselves through words on the page.
Amy’s work and writing has been featured in the Sun Magazine, The Harvard Business Review, Slate, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, and InStyle. Her book, "Tending" was published by NationBuilder Books in 2021.
Q&A:
Q: Do I need to identify as storyteller, a healer, a guide, or anything in order to attend this class?
A: No. All you need is a desire to be open to understanding story as a tool you use in your every day life. You may want to use this knowledge for yourself, or you may want to support others with this information, or you may want to keep this information in your back pocket for a rainy day.
Q: How much time will be asked of me?
A: We have 6 classes that meet for 2 hours every other Sunday (12 hours). All class teachings are recorded, so if you miss a class you can always catch up.
A lot of our creative time happens in our time together, and you are also invited to deepen your creative practice outside of class. For those who want accountability partners: you will have an opportunity to meet with a group outside of class (this is not required).
OUR CANCELLATION POLICY:
The nature of the work of learning to create a new story while stepping into living a new story will invite you to leave your comfort zone. You will be invited to meet the edges of what you are familiar with over and over, and be given the tools to play there. There is a powerful field that supports movement and growth when you are playing a part in a collective where everyone is committed to keep showing up-- to move through the blocks and the uncomfortable places. This cancellation policy is not just about business, it is about doing what we can to ensure that we are all in this together, engaging and using the tools of sacred storytelling to face whatever discomfort or challenges may present. Therefore, by registering for this course, you are signing up to to go the distance.
Cancellation within 48 hours of when class begins:
Occasionally someone walks into a first class, and in the first moments realizes they are not in the place that is in alignment for them. If this is you, you will receive a refund - a $30 admin fee. We thank you for your ally ship in understanding that there are admin costs associated with dropping out of a class and we still pay the entire paypal fee of your tuition regardless of if you are refunded.
Cancellation 48 hours after class begins:
Occasionally major changes in life situations happen, such as a death or massive transition that prevents you from attending. We are understanding of these moments; if you need to drop out after the 2nd class, your tuition can be applied to the tuition of a future class, - $30 admin fee.