BRIDGE

If you're a long time storywalker, go ahead and hop skip further down the page. But if you're new, let's stop and chat for a minute...

If you're totally "who is Jena" level new to my work I recommend you start by grabbing my complimentary Welcome Package and explore the opening prompts of the Wide Awake storywalk to get the feel for how I take us down a fairy tale path.

As a general introduction, Storywalking is a gentle but potent art and inquiry process I've developed that uses myths, fables and fairytales as a roadmap for epic inner journeys. A thick papered journal is our primary tool and playful engaging art is the way we catalyze personal self reflection and document our shifts and epiphanies.

You can ask any of the folks who take my courses - and they'll tell you my specialty is prompts that are powerful, playful and quick - designed to hurdle jump over your inner critic and into new information. Instead of hours and hours of instructions, daily videos are under 5 minutes -as short as a good song- so you get inspired and right to your journal. Supplies are limited and prompts are diverse with an emphasis on collage, doodling, writing. And yes: totally accessible for all skill levels.

This particular class is a super great one to get started with - it will be delivered as three one week long chapters (versus my longer 10 and 13 week walks). Over the course of each week you will build up layers in your journal and deepen into the inquiries evoked by the story.  Best part? The questions and themes from the story will bring up information totally unique to you. Messages hand culled by your own intuition. And when we walk together, wow we can really appreciate how very different, how incredibly customized it can be for each person!

Starting January 22 you are invited to join the Merry Band of  Storywalkers as we go trip, trap, trip, trap, across the bridge ...

Sooooo.... I opened an email a few weeks ago that was *fingers crossed hoping* that I would be doing another short Storywalk in January. Teaching The Three Golden Hairs last month made me appreciate all over again how these shorter three week courses are so gorgeously POINTED in their instruction! So I immediately put my Muse on the hunt. And she returned with this tale. As soon as I re-read it I broke out in chills and felt the tug tug tug that lets me know it's the one.  Because even though it's a simple story, it's got such potency! Or do I mean poetry?

Poetry. Image. Symbol. The reason I adore myth and fairytale is that every single piece of every single one of these stories is gorgeous potent metaphor pointing our intuition to reality.

And at the heart of this one?

THE BRIDGE

Gosh, it's so good, right?

How do we get from where we are now to our version of "grass that makes us fat"? I mean if you're a goat, that's about as good as it gets. But for you? What's as good as it gets for you?  That's what's on the other side of the bridge! And this story wants to tell us how to get there.

Bridges are awesome as metaphors, right? They go from THIS side to the FAR side. They traverse depths and flowing waters with an wide swath of sky above. Which means our soulful inner self knows that we need to thread our way between the intellect (sky) and the emotions (water) and safely make it over whatever we've been keeping in our rocky unconscious depths.

Which is all sorts of goodness
but also....

a frickin'

TROLL

Now, don't get scared. The Merry Band of Storywalkiers has successfully faced trolls before. In fact, when we were previously in the company of some good goats in Tatterhood we found that whacking trolls with wooden spoons was an excellent technique! So the real question is what terrible troll of a personal pattern in your real life are you ready to "crushed to bits, body and bones, and toss out into the cascade"?!

It's worth picking a really ugly troll/ nasty pattern because I've watched hundreds of Storywalkers make their way through these stories and there's just no way to walk the path, and follow the oracle of your images, and not have a massive freakin' breakthrough.

And in this story we've got three tries. Three goats of increasing power. Three deepening levels of your persona that will be facing that trip trap troll keeping you from that which you want.

And when we get to the third goat...

THE MAGIC THIRD?

The big Billy Goat Gruff of your soul?  They're going to have some seriously surprising epiphany level information for you.

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Now, you might think you could guess what big Billy's answer will be but anyone who's walked will agree - there's no way it's going to go down the way you might imagine. It's going to be weirder and more true and just well... Snip, snap, snout. We'll know when the tale's told out. ♥️

So, what will this story change for you?  What are you trying to bridge? What trip trap troll do you need to toss? And what will your inner big billy say? You don't need to figure out any of it in advance... the pages will show you the way! Just like in these joyful epiphany laden moments from a recent Puss in Boots walk...

Registering for this Story Walk gives you permanent access to Bridge: the Tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff as it unfolds and forever afterward.

I will be creating the course as we go, with a video prompt delivered to your email every day at 6am Pacific. Instructions are peppy & personal and include experimenting with collage, coloring, doodling, writing.  Storywalking is doable in an hour or two a week and is perfect for all skill levels. Keep up with the playful prompts over the 3 weeks or go along at your own pace.

This style of art journaling can open the voice of the intuition in an effortless manner - bringing spontaneous epiphanies and surprising momentum. Sometimes it points to subtle shifts of perception. Sometimes it points our future into a whole new direction. Your task is simply to show up with pen, scissors, glue. The story will take care of the rest.