A timely course offered by Natural Transitions Institute (www.naturaltransitions.org). Come and Join Us. 

 “Storycatchers come whenever we are in crisis to remind us of who we are. Storycatchers entice our best tales out of us: they turn with a leading question, a waiting ear, and their full attention. Storycatchers know that the mix of wisdom and wit and wonder that spills in the room in story space will reconnect us.”  From the book: Storycatcher, Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story, by Christina Baldwin, recommended reading for this course.

This immersive five-part series on the art of catching, crafting, and sharing stories, held on five consecutive Wednesday evenings, starts January 28 at 5PM PST/8 PM EST. 

This course is designed to support the skills of life-cycle celebrants, community leaders, and group facilitators of all kinds who wish to explore and practice story in their lives, especially in the service of life review, family-bonding and community building. In this course, you will explore:

• Class 1: Storycatching for the Times we Live in.
• Class 2: Narrative Arc in a Time of Chaos.
• Class 3: Story as Sacred Activism
• Class 4: Living a Mythic Story in the Midst of it All.
• Class 5: Celebration, witness, and commitment to our words. (In a large cohort, this class will be repeated in week 6 so that every voice may be heard.)

Each session will combine informal lecture and discussion, reflective writing time, and breakout sessions into small groups for advancing practice.

Important Course Information

1. Five consecutive Wednesday evenings: January 28, February 4,11,18, (intentional writing time gap) March 4, please hold March 11 if the cohort is more than 14.
2. Classes meet live-online, weekly for 90 minutes
3. Classes are held at 5:00 pm Pacific; 6:00 pm Mountain; 7:00 pm Central; and 8:00 pm Eastern
4. Program Start Date: January 28, 2026
5. Cost: $400 USD/CND pricing adjustment

Sign up now!  https://www.naturaltransitions.org/store#section-1740587156107

 Testimonials from participants who took this course in Fall 2025:

Thank you to all of you for sharing so much of yourself with grace, intelligence, and honesty through your beautiful writing and input over the last few weeks. Your stories connect with me and my stories in that magical alchemy of universality, and I am grateful we shared this experience.”

The past five weeks have been an amazing ride and I’m full of gratitude and inspiration for what we experienced together. Thank you, Christina, for your magical conducting skills, writing craft, and for connecting us all together.

Thank you, Christina, for calling this circle into being, for making space and giving freedom for expression born from feeling and experience.

Christina – Thank you for holding such a sacred container for us to find our voices. I look forward to sitting with you again, if time and space allow.

Christina is able to communicate such depth of meaning and purpose and leave you inspired. It was what I expected, but I gained more out of it on a personal level than expected.

The course became a rededication to the importance of storycatching and sharing. Christina provided numerous ways into finding the story. It created openings. It validated that I am already doing some of these practices without thinking about it. It made me think about how I can share it with others and reminded me of the importance of my own practice.