The Speak Your Spark Sacred Storytelling Program is designed for those who want to fully embody their creative life force and live with vitality in all aspects of their life. This work may be right for you if you want to:
Unlock the Power of Sacred Storytelling
Unlock the Power of Sacred Storytelling ...
Study the art and craft of storytelling by exploring the most ancient stories on the planet.
Learn techniques for creative activation to express yourself authentically and fully.
Discover and amplify your unique genius by clearing your channel and releasing psychic and emotional patterns that no longer serve you.
Explore your physical, psychic and energetic body as portals to your sacred stories.
Harness the power of story as a tool for healing and change for yourself and the world.
You can complete the full Program, and receive a certificate of completion where you can then join the facilitator training program. Or start your Sacred Storytelling journey by attending one module at a time.
Click here to watch an introduction to the program
Introduction to the program with Leah Lamb, MSW, Transformational Storyteller, Founder and Principal Instructor of the School for Sacred Storytelling
“We are all part of the old stories;
whether we know the stories or not,
the old stories know about us.”
— Leslie Marmon Silko
Meet Some Of Our Global Teaching Community
How It Works
Speak Your Spark is a sacred storytelling curriculum that consists of 11 unique workshop experiences that journey through the heart, mind, soul and body of your stories.
Discover clarity of sight. Plant seeds for the future. March 14 – April 4, 2023
Activate your voice and express your authenticity. January 17 – February 21, 2023
Explore your relationship to love: love of self, other, and land. September 6 – October 11, 2022
Connect to your power and purpose. May 17 – June 21, 2022
Liberate your creative life force and explore stories of sexuality. February 1 – March 8, 2022
Explore your foundation and what defines you as a creative. October 5 – November 9, 2021
Learn the art and craft of carrying an old story. April 25 – May 16, 2023
Create mythic or non-fiction stories with the intention and purpose to offer a lesson. November 1 – November 22, 2022
Create a story that will bring healing and medicine for your soul. July 12 – August 2, 2022
How has life initiated you and what gifts has the journey bestowed? April 5 – April 26, 2022
Reveal your own mythic origin story. November 23 – December 14, 2021
SANCTUARY EXPLORATION MODULES [6-weeks]: take us inward to discover our stories. Each Sanctuary workshop takes us through the chakras of the body. These modules are self-discovery journeys, where we mine the stories that are living in that part of the body and energy system. Each Sanctuary module is supported by guest teachers who bring unique expertise to broaden our perspective and skill set. We will engage in a dynamic creative process to compost, transmute and heal while revealing the hidden gems of your life experience.
STORY SKILL BUILDING MODULES [4-week workshops]: allow us to integrate our discoveries and practice our craft. While you harvest the content for your stories in the SANCTUARY modules, you will focus on the craft of – creating and telling – the story in the SKILLS modules. We’ll concentrate on story development, the writing process, how to work with and manage an audience, and fine-tuning our performance skills. In our final module of each skills module, you’ll have an opportunity to participate in a performance for our module.
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- Explore Sanctuary Modules
- Explore Story Skills Modules
Jan 14 – Jan 19th, 2022
SANCTUARY
Reveal Your Creator Matrix. Discover what drives you to create and who you are as a Conscious Creator. Uncover your superpowers and what blocks the expression of your life force.
6-Week Creative Activation module
6-Week Creative Activation module
Visit Sanctuary
January 27th, 2022
MYTHOS
Imagine the Origin Story of Your Soul. Apply what you have discovered about your unique creator archetype as you develop your own personal creation myth. Tell the birth story of your soul.
4-Week Storytelling module
4-Week Storytelling module
Visit Mythos
Feb 1 – Mar 8, 2022
EROS
Liberate Your Creative Life Force. Explore your relationship to sexuality and intimacy. Discover what patterns need to be released, so you can express your truth.
6-Week Creative Activation module
6-Week Creative Activation module
Visit Eros
Apr 5 – Apr 26, 2022
WISDOM STORIES
Give the Gift of Your Life & Legacy Stories. How has life initiated you? What gifts do you hold that are most needed for these times? Transform your life lessons into offerings for the world.
4-Week Storytelling module
4-Week Storytelling module
Visit Wisdom
May 17 – Jun 21, 2022
SHINE
Express Your Power & Purpose. Enter your body’s core to unlock your power and purpose. Discover how you lose power or give it away and the internal belief system that drives this dynamic.
6-Week Creative Activation module
6-Week Creative Activation module
Visit Shine
Jul 12 – Aug 2, 2022
MEDICINE STORIES
Bring Healing & Medicine to Your Soul. Learn how to engage story as a tool for healing and transformation and apply this technique to a situation in your life that needs tending and exploration.
4-Week Storytelling module
4-Week Storytelling module
Visit Medicine
Sep 6 – Oct 11, 2022
UNITY
How big is your love? Explore your stories of love: love of self, other, family, community, and land. Deepen your relationship to love beyond the mainstream cultural versions we’re fed since childhood.
6-Week Creative Activation module
6-Week Creative Activation module
Visit Unity
Nov 1 – Nov 22, 2022
TEACHING STORIES
Engage this ancient technique to share values, beliefs systems, and life lessons. How do we ensure that future generations don’t perpetuate structures and stories of racial injustice, sexism, and destruction? Create a story that helps break the cycle.
4-Week Storytelling module
4-Week Storytelling module
Visit Teaching
Jan 17 – Feb 21, 2023
SPEAK YOUR SPARK
Liberate your essence. Use your voice. What do you need to say that has gone unspoken? Align your voice with passion and purpose. Use your voice to end patterns that no longer serve you.
6-Week Creative Activation module
6-Week Creative Activation module
Visit Spark
Mar 14 – Apr 4, 2023
VISION STORIES
Weave the Stories of Tomorrow. Learn the prophecy stories that have guided our planet. As a conscious creator, develop the skills to weave the stories of tomorrow from the threads of today.
4-Week Storytelling module
4-Week Storytelling module
Visit Vision
Jul 12 – Aug 2, 2023
CANTADORA
Carry the old stories forward. As the Australian aboriginals say, the stories from our past must be sung to the present, so the future can exist. Choose a story from your lineage or carry one forward from a lineage or language that may be soon lost.
4-Week Storytelling module
4-Week Storytelling module
Visit Cantadora
“There is an ancient language calling through the ethers of time.
Ready to be reclaimed and remembered.
It speaks through the roots of trees,
through the mist of clouds, the cry of an unseen bird.
It arrives through the vehicle of a living sacred story,
and these stories are living in, and through you.”
“The old stories are asking to be healed,
and the new stories are ready to emerge,
and the sacred stories are holding the wisdom of the ancients.
But can you hear them?
Is your vessel clear?
Is your listening honed?”
“Can you catch and carry them so that they might be heard?
Is your mind prepared to break through your paradigms?
Are you packed for a journey into the mythic realms and ready to face the mysteries?
These stories are your stories.”
SPEAK YOUR SPARK program includes:
5 Unique Six-Week SANCTUARY SELF-EXPLORATION Modules that utilize the creative process to explore where and how our stories reside in the chakras of the body. Includes: 60 hours of live interactive modules.
6 Unique Four-Week STORY SKILLS BUILDING Modules where you’ll learn how to expertly craft and perform stories with confidence. Includes: 40 hours of live interactive modules.
5 Full-Day STORY CEREMONIES creating immersive explorations of stories that shape our shared mythology and our view of ourselves.
35 GUEST MASTER TEACHERS guiding live and interactive modules. These modules are designed to bring you a global and diverse perspective of the stories of our times. 70 hours of live interactive modules.
Ongoing Group of Greatness PEER GROUP: this is your team of 3-4 creative allies who you can meet with outside of module and who can hold you accountable to your goals. Witness each others’ progress and grow your stories together.
Members Only ONLINE COMMUNITY: We have a private community of Sacred Storytellers who are committed to holding a space that encourages new stories to be created and shared. This is a space where you can share resources, share your stories, discover the realm of sacred storytelling with others who aren’t in your module. Participants in the full program receive 1 full year free membership
Who Is This Program Designed For?
Speak Your Spark students come from many walks of life and places around the world, creating a diverse and unique community. Our participants are:
artists journalists healers facilitators coaches parents teachers activists screenwriters leaders community builders
The program is designed for those who want to fully embody their creative life force and live with vitality in all aspects of their life. Are you ready to?
- Step onto the ancient path of storytelling, and engage the language of symbol, myth, archetype, metaphor.
- Play a role in bringing positive change to our world and work with story as a tool for healing.
- Clear your channel and remove psychic and emotional blocks that are keeping you from fully realizing the creative project that is dreaming you.
- Communicate more effectively in your personal and professional life.
- Deepen and broaden your creative capacity by learning how to approach myths and rituals.
- Improve your self-confidence through practice and performance.
- Embrace and amplify your gifts.
- Develop skills and techniques to deeper connection to our global community in these changing times.
A Special Invitation from Leah Lamb, MSW, Transformational Storyteller, Founder and Principal Instructor of the School for Sacred Storytelling
Storytellers hold the keys to thriving through the initiations of life.
In many ways these are miraculous times in which such diverse peoples with different origin stories, different belief systems, and different values form a multi-cultural society.
At no other time have people experienced so much transition at such a rapid pace, from technology to climate change to the appreciation of diverse identities.
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. It emerges through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.”
Mother Teresa
HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?
The Speak Your Spark curriculum consists of 11 self-contained learning modules and 5 full day Story Ceremonies or Workshops. Students can participate in the entire experience, receiving the optimal benefits, or they may join one module at a time with unique, stand-alone workshops.
The Speak Your Spark program begins a new rotation every two years. It is possible to join the community at any point during our journey if there are spaces available in the individual workshops. However, enrollment will be limited, to preserve the intimacy of the group. If modules are filled by participants of the curriculum, then individual modules will be closed for registration.
Ready to Join?
Take part in the full Curriculum or start your journey by joining one module at a time with the elements that meet you where you are.
Imagine A Community That Brings Out Your Greatness
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.
Imagine a community that invites poetry, storytelling, and song. We are a merry brood who are sharing our unique gifts and understand that our voice can make a difference in the world. The nature of this program invites you into the depths of your consciousness, to wander the wilds of your inner landscapes, and to shine light on the darkest corners of your personal story. And to find beauty, grace, and wisdom, all along the way.
You will step into a supportive creative community. Long standing friendships have begun in these circles. The global nature of the program will foster international connections, expanding your potential for collaborative projects and initiatives worldwide.
“The future ancestors of this planet
may look back on this time and say, there was a time when stories ruled the earth.
And you could be one of the keepers, one of the creators, one of the carriers of those stories.”
Join A Free Masterclass
“How to Tell Stories that Open Hearts and Change the World”
In this live, hour-long introductory module to Sacred Storytelling, you will explore:
- How to activate your creative spark
- The art and neuroscience of storytelling
- The most common mistakes storytellers make
- How to engage your audience.
Focuses Of Our Exploration
Sacred Storytelling as a Healing Modality
Learn how to work with storytelling as a tool for healing for yourself, for your community, for the planet. Discover that you have the power to author your own story. Examine your life through the lens of story and identify the roles you’ve been playing. Identify the stories that are serving you and the ones you are ready to release.
Earth Based Practices
Learn earth-based practices from around the globe as you develop an intimate relationship with rituals that connects people, land, and community. Explore traditions for cleansing, clearing, anointing, healing, and forgiving. Integrate prayer and blessings into your creation process.
Discover the Joy of Inner Development
Grab the reins of your life experience as you transform villains into master teachers and re-cast suffering as initiation. Discover the unique medicine and gifts you have to offer. Music, muse-invoking poetry, articles, podcasts, and the Creator’s Guide to Psychic Silence will support you during this revelatory practice.
Open Your Creative Channel & Develop Your Intuition
Access psychic silence so you can see through the cloud of stories — and see with clarity the stories that you tell yourself and that the world tells you. Learn to trust your intuition and creative impulses as you dance with the muse. We’ll introduce a step-by-step process for clearing your creative channel and understanding your limiting and liberating thought patterns. You’ll unearth what is between you and the full expression of your voice.
Mental Focus & Discernment
Increase your awareness and mental discipline as you explore your consciousness through meditation. Look through the lens of the sacred storyteller as you learn to see through the layers of stories in our time. We will introduce practical methods for memorizing your story that builds self-confidence and stage presence.
Complexity & Diversity
We will not attempt to simplify the times we are living in. We are committed to fostering an environment that honors and respects our community as we learn from each other’s stories. Our goals include holding ourselves accountable to be present and generative and to create a supportive community focused on sharing our gifts with each other and the planet.
Presence & Embodiment
Learn how to connect with your body as a vessel for the creative life force. You will be introduced to array of embodiment technique to physically explore your stories. Work with your voice through song, movement, and a variety of modalities of writing and storytelling so your unique perspective and medicine can be heard.
Advanced Communication Skills
Expand your powers of listening and reflection. Engage healthy boundaries for your creative practice. Provide supportive feedback that enhances your own and others’ creative process. Master teachers will introduce you to techniques for developing your unique voice and storytelling style.
Story Ceremonies And Workshops
Where stories come from remains a mystery.
Some will say stories come from the earth speaking out loud, others will say they are whispered by the ancestors, and others will speak of stories that rise from within our bones.
The relationship between ceremony, ritual, and story, goes back to the roots of the very first expression of theatre, and with the actor, Dionysus.
Each ceremony will be guided by a specific story, and that story will provide an invitation for you to explore how that story is — or isn’t– being lived through you and the life you are choosing.
Over the module of the 19-months of the curriculum there will be workshops and ceremonies you can choose to participate in. A workshop is something you may be familiar with, an all-day affair that combines learning, practice, time to create, and time to share and be witnessed.
In story ceremonies, we step out of the pedestrian, and into the mystery of story, into a sacred space, outside of time, and has a more open and spacious nature of being with story.
When registering for the full curriculum, five 1-Day Story Ceremonies or Workshops are included in your tuition. You can also register for each story ceremony on its own.
Immersive, Experiential Full-day Events
Full-day story ceremonies and workshops will provide intensive journeys engaging ritual and performance in community. These explorations will focus on a particular story that shapes our shared mythology and our view of ourselves. We’ll dig deeper into how this tale may be rooted in and informing your own story.
Over the course of the program, you select 5 of the 8 workshops and ceremonies to participate in. The full-day workshops will incorporate time to learn, create, share and to be witnessed. In story ceremonies, we step into the mystery of story, into a sacred space, outside of time. We will play with story, try it on and turn it inside out.
The Story of Health
Full- Day Workshop
January, 2022
10:00 am – 7:00 pm PST
2-Hour Bonus Module with Dr. Bernie SiegalJanuary, 2022
For this very special story workshop, we’ll start with a 2-Hour Bonus Module with Guest Teacher, writer and former pediatric surgeon, Dr. Bernie Siegal who will explore our relationship to healing.
Register here
The Story of Earth’s Becoming
Story Ceremony
April 22,, 2022
11:00 am – 6:00 pm PST
What if mother isn’t The Great Mother…yet? But the maiden, holding the dream of her becoming? This is a story that is emerging out of our times and explores Earth as a living being who has a mission of her own in this great universe. Be prepared to have your story turned inside out.
Learn more
The Love Maker
Full- Day Story Ceremony
April 30th, 2022
11:00 am – 6:00 pm PST
This story ceremony will lead you on a journey to meet the creator of Love, aka The Love Maker. Through this mythic story journey, you will have an opportunity to explore your relationship with love itself.
Register here
Tell A Bigger Story
Full-Day Workshop
July 11, 2022
11:00 am – 7:00 pm PST
This story is designed to support people who have experienced a traumatic event or work as healers and facilitators who want to learn a new technique for alchemizing painful events. Experience a new way to tell old stories that reveal your wisdom, insights, strength, and resilience.
Register here
The Story of The Witch
Story Ceremony
October 18, 2022
10:00 am – 7:00 pm PST
The Story of The Witch is an old story that continues to haunt and still has a strong hold on the voices of many women, and the men who feel called to protect them. Step into a new origin story for the witch, who rather than be burned with all her knowledge, made a deal with the ocean to protect her wisdom, so it could be passed on from one lifetime into another.
Register here
The Story of Scarcity
Full-Day Workshop
December 3, 2022
11:00 am – 7:00 pm PST
We will explore an old folk tale as we turn and face one of the most dangerous stories of our time. The old stories will be our guides. as we dive in to see how the story of scarcity is running through our lives.
Register here
The Healing of Sleeping Beauty
Story Ceremony
Jan 23, 2023
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm PST
We will step into ceremony to heal this old story and listen for the wisdom and warning that is living inside of its bones.
Register here
Endings and Beginnings
Story Ceremony
May 21, 2023
Endings & Beginnings is the final story ceremony of this program, and serves as a form of initiatory storytelling. Every ending is an invitation for a new story. We will be exploring what has ended, what is ending, and what is being birthed, in our individual life paths, and in the collective story of our time.
Register here
How Do I Join A Story Ceremony Or One-day Story Workshop?
When registering for the full curriculum – your choosing of five, 1-Day Story Ceremonies or Workshops are included in your tuition. You can also register for remaining full-day events if you’d like to participate in all of them.
If you are registering for modules, ceremonies, and workshops one at a time, you may do that, so long as these spots have not been filled by students who are participating in the full 19-month curriculum.
Private module Portal for Access to Recorded Content and module Materials
You will receive a personal login to an easy-to-use website where you can access all the Speak Your Spark module materials, watch recordings, and engage in conversations with your fellow cohorts.
Integration & Rest
There are two week pauses between the Sanctuary and Story Skills modules to rest and to integrate your discoveries. Holidays, summer, and spring will also provide opportunities to harmonize.
Story Ceremonies & One-day Story Workshops
Throughout the 19-month curriculum, there will be eight full-day story ceremonies and workshops. These immersive and experiential journeys engage ritual and performance in community. Our explorations will focus on a particular story that shapes our shared mythology and our view of ourselves.
Members-Only Online Community
You will have access to an exclusive online community where you can stay connected with fellow Speak Your Spark participants, share your experiences and insights, be inspired by the reflections of others, discover local & online events hosted by your peers, and connect with collaborators on projects. While our module portal is private, you will also be part of a larger community where you can join alumni from past modules and other souls committed to the art and craft of being a sacred storyteller.
Certificate of Completion
Upon completion of the 11- module program, you will receive a Certificate of Completion from The School for Sacred Storytelling.
SPEAK YOUR SPARK program includes:
5 Unique Six-Week SANCTUARY SELF-EXPLORATION Modules that utilize the creative process to explore where and how our stories reside in the chakras of the body. Includes: 60 hours of live interactive modules.
6 Unique Four-Week STORY SKILLS BUILDING Modules where you’ll learn how to expertly craft and perform stories with confidence. Includes: 40 hours of live interactive modules.
5 Full-Day STORY CEREMONIES creating immersive explorations of stories that shape our shared mythology and our view of ourselves.
35 GUEST MASTER TEACHERS guiding live and interactive modules. These modules are designed to bring you a global and diverse perspective of the stories of our times. 70 hours of live interactive modules.
Ongoing Group of Greatness PEER GROUP: this is your team of 3-4 creative allies who you can meet with outside of module and who can hold you accountable to your goals. Witness each others’ progress and grow your stories together.
Members Only ONLINE COMMUNITY: We have a private community of Sacred Storytellers who are committed to holding a space that encourages new stories to be created and shared. This is a space where you can share resources, share your stories, discover the realm of sacred storytelling with others who aren’t in your module.
“Everybody acts out a myth,
but very few people know what their myth is.
And you should know what your myth is
because it might be a tragedy
and maybe you don't want it to be.”
Carl Jung
Welcome Sacred Storyteller
You Are A Living Work of Art
Register for the Speak Your Spark Program Here
Speak Your Spark Sacred Storytelling Journey $5000
Payment Options:
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Option #1 One payment of $4,600 (discounted rate)
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Option #2 Payment Plan – Two annual payments of $2,575 (includes 6% PayPal & Admin Fee)
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Option #3 Payment Plan – Monthly payment plan: 19 payments of $271 (All Fees Included)
Upcoming modules, Ceremonies and Workshops
For a full listing of Upcoming Courses and Events that may be purchased individually or in bundles, please visit our course catalogue page. If you enroll in more than one Sanctuary or Story Skills module, or a combination of both, you’ll receive a discount.
"Those who tell the stories rule the world."
Hopi Proverb
”People think that stories are shaped by people.
— Terry Pratchett
In fact, it's the other way around.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are there different ways for me to participate in the curriculum?
Experience with teaching in person and on-line led me to create a 20-month curriculum that consists of 11 self-contained learning modules. Students can participate in the entire 20-month experience, receiving the optimal benefits, or they may join one module at a time with unique, stand-alone workshops.
The Speak Your Spark program begins a new rotation every two years. It is possible to join the community at any point during our journey if there are spaces available in the individual workshops. However, enrollment will be limited, in order to preserve the intimacy of the group. If modules are filled by participants of the 20-month curriculum, then individual modules will be closed for registration.
What if I just learned about the program and I want to jump in?
The program rotates like a wheel. You can join the 20-month program at any time.
Can I attend just one module?
Yes, you can attend one or more modules. You receive a discount when you register for more than one module at a time.
What if I miss a module?
All modules are recorded and will be available to watch within 24 hours.
What if I am an alumnus and I want to repeat a module that I already participated in?
Welcome home!!! You’ll receive a 50% discount when you repeat any module you took previously.
Are scholarships or financial aid available? How do I qualify and apply?
You can apply for a scholarship here. We have limited spaces and prioritize elders and youngers. There is also an opportunity to do work-exchange.
What if I’m unable to complete the full 19-month program?
There are limited spaces in the 20-month Speak Your Spark program. The program requires a high level of commitment that opens the door for deeper breakthroughs to happen. It is important for students to be fully committed to the entire program and to plan ahead to make space and time for it during the 20-month period. That said, Leah recognizes that abrupt, significant life changes can occur, and the team works with any participant in such a situation to make the best decision under the new circumstances.
What comes after the Speak Your Spark program?
There is a facilitator training program in which you can continue your work with story as a tool for healing. Inquire to info@leahlamb.com for more information.
What if I have questions about whether the program is right for me?
We recommend you attend or watch the recording of the Introductory Session which will provide an overview of the curriculum and program format. You are also invited to attend a live Master Module where you can ask specific questions. You may also Contact Us via the online form with any other questions.
Your Guide: Leah Lamb, Founder, The School of Sacred Storytelling
Leah Lamb is on a mission to work with story as a tool for healing for the individual, and the collective, and experiences writing and creativity as a doorway to the divine. She is the founder The School for Sacred Storytelling, whose mission is to bring healing to the stories of our times, and those courageous beings who tell them.
Leah has collaborated with story as a writer, actress, filmmaker, producer, and focuses on working with story as a healing modality. She founded The Performance Initiative, a non profit committed to utilizing the arts for social change, where she produced, ENGAGE: a multimedia event designed to encourage voter participation, which led her to working at Al Gore’s network, Current TV, where she hosted and produced the green channel.
Her writing on the environment and culture can be found on National Geographic News Watch, Planet Green, GOOD Inc,, and Spirituality & Health Magazine, and through the award winning PSA about climate, “I did Noth’n”, and serves as the arts advisor for the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation.
"What you create, creates you."