Storytelling mentorship for intuitive misfits

The one thing that marks you out as a storyteller

There’s a lot online about storytelling days, the how, the why, the which and eveyr of storybuilding, crafting and speaking. But getting into technical details and platforms misses the most essential power that cuts through every algorithm and that is…

You.

As a storyteller I’m versed in finding ways to bring people’s voices out. I’ve given workshops to over ten thousand people in finding their stories, I’ve coached speakers for TEDxAmsterdan, leaders at large corporations, and I’ve supported hunhdreds of businesses to find their stories. Often these lay in niches areas where uniqueness was a superpower but they could not define what it was.

After a while we lose the thread

We all know the bursts of inspiration, the epiphanies that launched our careers, when feel in love. I’m interested in what happens years after that. When the magic fades – what are we left with?

This is where our story comes in. Through telling stories you up the threads of where you’ve been, where you’re at and where you’re going. You find the pieces turned aside from that can now be picked up. As one client put it – my story lies in all these places, we just don’t know how it hangs together. 

Your story is you

What I’m offering is a hybrid course in storytelling as a skill and storytelling as a way of coming to insight about what drives and motivates – what really brings you alive. The reason I’m doing this is that working with speakers I found always involved a deeper conversation about what they were about. Story finding was really self-finding. This epiphany led me to launch my business. 

The story is the thread that makes you current priorities clear – that aligns your priorities with the landscape before you. I want to align a discovery of this in your life with sharpening of skills that make you a more effective presence in the room. More:

– Present

– Confident

– Clear

Someone people relate to and are inspired by. The background to all of this is finding your story. The two roads become on. 

A course that works for you

My three-month mentorship begins with finding out about you. In our first meeting, we lay it all on the table: your challenges and goals, your stumbling blocks and inspirations, frustrations and drives. We lay it out on the table, then create a path for you to work through the most important and pressing of these. We have great dialogue, I set you practices, you talk to me through what’s working or not working for you. Gradually your story emerges. 

We’ll find a way to ritualise your insight – to bring ideas into action and make the most important dream inside you, give it voice in the world. 

Mentorship not coaching

The mentors I’ve had over the years have had a profound effect on my life. Mentorship is a natural way to combine both our experience to chart a way forward for you. 

For intuitive misfits 

Intuition is often a hallmark of brilliance but it creates stumbling blocks. Things occur to you quicker – see them clearly but can’t always communicate what you see. Intuition is often not prized by institutions and organisations – it’s too fast, cuts through rules and gets to solutions quicker. It’s what they need to renew. 

Intuitives I know often feel run down trying to get what they see obvious done, can’t get others to see. Through the mentorship I want to support you to see and speak your story more clearly so you can invite others into it, and bring them with you. 

Finding your naturalness

Whenever we’re trying to be something, we’re getting in the way of our own story. Naturalness is when we are no more and no less than what we are. We own our insight and authority, confident in our skills. But we’re also no bigger than that. We see ourselves clearly in the scheme of things – not overwhelmed, not underpowered.

I’ve had to find a lot of threads of my own

I was an economist who was good at acting. I liked being outdoors. I’m an extrovert who likes solitude. An intellectual who loves spirituality. Storytelling became a way to weave all that together. It gave me a key in both art and business to find my way as circumstances change. That skill in way-finding, developed through storytelling, is the core purpose of the mentorship – to provide you with way-finding ability to navigate your way through the choppy waters of the world.

It all begins with a free intro call

The programme 

– Six online sessions over three months (or longer as convenient)

– In person sessions of you live in Utrecht/Amsterdam area

– Intake call to define your objectives and design your programme

– Each session we’ll discuss what you’re finding. I’ll amplify with my own experience, suggest readings, set exercises and of course, tell stories.

– At the end, I’ll write you a letter reflecting on what we’ve covered, recommended steps to go forward. For your own insight, you’re most welcome to reply

– Mentees report clearer perspective on storytelling, more focused direction, greater presence in the room, confidence in telling their stories.

I offer this mentorship on a price scale. If you feel this is for you, during our call we’ll find a price that fits.