12-week cohort
The content
Welcome!
You have a journey ahead of you. And you won’t be alone.
Becoming Restoried is a process of paying attention to your life. It’s a process of being honest about your life. It’s a process of excavating into the buried truths of your life. It’s a process of naming the lies you’ve believed about your life and finding clarity about the truth of who you are.
Becoming Restoried is the process of scraping the muck and debris off your mirror so you can see yourself clearly. When you look at you life through the lens of shame and self-doubt, your view is distorted. It’s altered by the layer of dirt on the glass.
So before you can stick any positive affirmation to your sense of self, you have to first realize there is mud in the way, and then scrape it off.
That’s what this journey is about. We won’t complete it in these 12 weeks—because in a very real sense, it’s never complete. But we will take powerful steps along the road together, experiencing the magic of content, community, and coaching all orienting in the same direction: reconciling to your life stories.
Week 1: The two guiding stories
From the English mythteller Martin Shaw, comes two illuminating stories: the Handless Maiden and the Lindworm. In the first video, I tell a short version of the Handless Maiden story on stage (you can read the full story in Shaw’s book Smokehole). In the second video, you can hear Martin Shaw tell the Lindworm (full story in his book Courting the Wild Twin).
These two stories are foundational, guiding stories for our work together. In many of our calls, language from these stories will be referenced. They are stories that hold us together and orient us in the same direction.
For our first call, we discuss these stories and what wisdom they offer for our journey.
Journal Prompt:
On the first encounter, where did I see myself in The Handless Maiden story? Where did I see myself in the Lindworm story?
Which characters were I drawn to? Why?
Which characters were I resistant to? Why?
What images/language from the stories have stuck with me?
THE solo intensive
Accelerate your restorying journey. Just you and your coach. Live and in-person.
the restoried roadmap
A short walkthrough of the Restoried Roadmap.
MIchael’s Tedx
Watch the TEDx Michael mentioned. It’s from August 2022, delivered for TEDxNashville at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. It’s all about how a robust process of self-curiosity can help reveal and heal pain. It’s also the first time he ever mentioned Becoming Restoried publicly.