Story Mentoring

Apprenticeship in Folk Tale & Living Tradition

Story Mentoring is a one-to-one apprenticeship for those are called to work with folk tales, myth, and ancestral traditions — and to carry them into the modern world with integrity.

This process approaches story as: craft, communication, entertainment, cultural custodianship, lineage, and way of being.

This mentorship is open to aspiring storytellers, teachers and parents, facilitators and grop leaders, people on a path of ancestral enquiry, with an interest in mythopoetics, or who simply love old stories and would like to het better at telling them.

What You Will Learn

Over time, mentees learn to:

• Find and choose stories suitable for live telling
• Research and understand their cultural and historical roots
• Memorise stories in a living, embodied way
• Work with structure, rhythm, and repetition
• Craft adaptations whilst staying true to the tale
• Develop presence and confidence in live telling
• Navigate audience, setting, and context
• Step consciously onto the path of the storyteller

This is not about reciting text, but living and breathingthe stories we tell. 

The Work

We lean on timeless traditions —

oral cultures, hearthside storytelling, mythic pattern, ancestral imagination —

while also navigating the realities of the contemporary world:

• Professional storytelling contexts
• Schools and community settings
• Festivals and outdoor gatherings
• Creative practice
• Personal development
• Ethical relationship to source material

Who This Is For

This may be for you if:

• You feel drawn toward folk tales but don’t know where to begin
• You want to tell stories live — personally or professionally
• You are exploring your ancestral roots and cultural inheritance
• You are a teacher, facilitator, celebrant, or creative seeking deeper foundations
• You sense that story is more than entertainment

No prior experience is required.

Only commitment and curiosity.

How It Works

• 75–90 minute online sessions
• Tailored guidance based on your experience
• Story recommendations and reading pathways
• Reflective prompts between sessions
• Ongoing encouragement and constructive critique
• Group story share gatherings
• one to one sessions
• Support telling in public
• Strategic story plans

Spaces are intentionally limited to allow genuine apprenticeship.

Register Your Interest

If you would like to explore Story Mentoring, join the interest list below and you will be first to hear when the course goes live in 2026.