Purpose

• Get to know one another and begin building the learning community

• Explore Story Mediation as a practice and a craft

• Understand the role and responsibility of a Story Mediator

Focus

• The work and story of a Story Mediator

• Sensing and active listening

• Stories, meaning, and authorship

Purpose

• Understand the foundations and boundaries of Story Mediation

• Explore authorship, responsibility, and the mediator’s stance

Focus

• What Story Mediation is — and what it is not

• Sensing, Active Listening, and mirroring

• Empowerment through presence rather than intervention

• Story Mediation as a practice of service

Purpose

• Explore the identity and responsibility of the Story Mediator

• Develop a sense of service to the storyteller, the story, and the space

Focus

• Balancing lived experience with the Story Mediator role

• Understanding context and purpose

• Exploring different listening positions and sub-roles

• Practising presence, restraint, and responsibility

Purpose

• Explore how values shape the stories we live and craft

• Begin identifying the values that guide your practice as a Story Mediator

Focus

• TILES as a compass and lens for Story Mediation

• Exchange, Inclusion, Authorship, Balance, and Sustainability

• Connecting personal values with future-oriented stories

Purpose

• Explore Work as Craft as a mindset for Story Mediation

• Connect values, presence, and action in practice

Focus

• Craft as a way of sensing, learning, and responding

• Working with stories rather than trying to control them

• Curiosity, experimentation, and attentiveness

• Developing your own way of practising Story Mediation

Purpose

• Explore planning as an open, story-based process

• Use Metaphorical Tourism to explore possible futures

Focus

• Witnessing, Allowing, and Connecting through a Work as Craft mindset

• Exploring future possibilities without prematurely defining them

• Noticing different perspectives, possibilities, and compromises

• Metaphorical Fields and Luminous Spaces

Purpose

• Develop awareness of the power shaping stories and choices

• Explore how personal and wider narratives influence what feels possible

Focus

• Story and narrative as distinct but connected

• Small “n” narratives and Big “N” Narratives

• Sensing power without seeking to control or interpret

• Using the Bird’s-Eye View to notice wider narrative systems

Purpose

• Explore Equilibrium as an ongoing practice in Story Mediation

• Develop awareness of the dimensions that support sustainable practice

Focus

• TILES and the role of Equilibrium

• Nine dimensions of well-being and their relationship to practice

• Sensing what is present, shifting, or less visible

• Finding a pace that supports sustainable Story Mediation

Purpose

• Explore mentorship and guidance as a mosaic rather than a single model

• Recognise the role of community in sustaining learning and practice

Focus

• The Mentorship Mosaic as a source of guidance and inspiration

• Self-leadership through intentional choice of influences

• Shared learning, participation, and contribution

• Leadership as a relational practice

Purpose

• Explore Story Craftivism as a way of turning values into action

• Recognise how story, craft, and play can create meaningful change

Focus

• Story as something we embody and materialise

• Gentle activism through creativity, care, and imagination

• Play as a source of experimentation and possibility

• Crafting spaces and actions that support belonging and new stories

Purpose

• Explore Story Mediation as a structured one-to-one practice

• Support sensemaking and self-leadership through story

Focus

• The relationship between storyteller, Story Mediator, and Story

• Grounding Story Mediation in a specific activity or project

• The three phases: Externalising, Mirroring and Validation, and Updated Story

• Integrating the Emotional Mirror, Treasure Hunter, Cheerleader, and Bird’s-Eye View

Purpose

• Explore Story Mediation with partnerships, teams, and organisations

• Support collective sensemaking through shared stories

Focus

• Gathering around a shared activity or purpose

• Listening to and noticing patterns across stories

• Holding up the mirror without imposing meaning

• Exploring what stories invite next

Purpose

• Explore how to create spaces where Story Mediation can happen

• Bring your interests, creativity, and craft into practice

Focus

• Designing meaningful invitations for shared exploration

• Creating space for personal sensemaking and storytelling

• Supporting story sharing, mediation, and reflection

• Harvesting what emerges without forcing conclusions