Welcome to StoryConscious, a website for people who want to write for self-discovery, self-development, self-empowerment, and joy. As more and more of us are realizing, the language we use has an uncanny power to shape our experience and affect the quality of our awareness. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves literally construct our identities. Conscious or unconscious, storytelling has enormous power.
On this website, you’ll find a menu of affordable, personalized coaching opportunities, each offering a different way to engage with language as a tool for growth:
- One-on-one Journaling Coaching offers
techniques to help you meet and find meaning in the challenges of daily life, identify recurring thought patterns, and begin to manifest the kinds of experiences you desire.
- One-on-one Fiction Coaching teaches the craft of the experience-based short story. It supports you in processing the lessons carried by particularly difficult or intense moments in your life, and helps you to envision new possibilities with regard to those experiences.
- One-on-one Essay Coaching shows you how to research and structure your thoughts with regard to any complex issue that confronts you. You’ll learn the conventions of the classic academic essay, and in the process, you’ll enhance your ability to think critically and argue persuasively.
In addition to providing a gateway to the coaching modalities, this website offers a sampling of my own work in these areas, as well as book recommendations and links to other sites to support your process. Whether or not we work together, I hope you’ll leave feeling inspired to engage with your own life-stories more consciously, powerfully, and joyfully. My best wishes to you as you write your own fulfilled life.
Rebecca