Untold Stories Storytelling Studio

You might call them something else – perspectives, purpose, challenges, lived experiences, or life events. We call them stories. Stories are representations of your experiences and choices, and you express your stories in different ways. From the way that you process your thoughts and emotions and manage your conflicts, to the histories, cultures, and traditions you try to defend, reverse, or cancel, you are constantly telling and listening to stories about yourself, your relationship with others, and your place in the world.

Stories like mental health worries, identity crises, failure, grief, and burnout are hardly ever expressed, but they often become the overriding narratives that shape your sense of self. Without the right kind of attention, these stories eat away at who you are until you become a shadow of yourself; feeling too tired, too stressed out, too flawed, and too broken to remember your own purpose.

That’s why our mental health skill-building and stress-reduction work starts with stories. We bring attention to the untold ones; the ones that are not narrated, recounted, or disclosed. Sometimes these stories are difficult and painful to face, but you know you need to address them in order to find your way back to a better state of mental health and well-being.

Our experience with narrative and lived experience studies, mental health recovery, and mindfulness-based stress reduction helps us put stories at the centre of what we do. We help people turn their stories of mental health worries into stories of resilience. Identity crises become stories about finding an authentic self. Ruminations about failure and grief become stories of progress and meaning. And experiences with burnout become stories of finding balance.

How do we do it? With workshops that build resilience and mental health skills, a community that fosters well-being practice and support, and tools that help you tell new stories.