Story Sage: Frameworks & Tools Online Course

Course Description

As a counselor, pastor, leader, or friend you often hear stories that involve suffering and the impact of loss and harm. You have a heart to offer healing care and effective insight, yet at times it feels difficult to illuminate and tend to the deepest matters of the heart. Frameworks & Tools is a robust foundational course in the Story Sage Series that will equip you to take your work with others to the next level with the Allender Theory of story engagement.

This three-lesson course lays the foundation for what is required to hear and engage stories with a heart for redemption and navigate the complex terrain of heartache. Sit around the table with author and psychologist Dr. Dan Allender and gifted story experts, Cathy Loerzel and Rachael Clinton as they teach in-depth on the tools needed to uncover the shadowed places of the heart that act as strongholds to keep us from true healing, freedom, and joy.

Throughout this course you will be invited to:

• Deepen your capacity to utilize story as a gateway into core matters of the heart
• Reflect on how your own story shapes the way you hear, see, and offer care
• Apply what you are learning through exercises designed to illuminate the essential steps of offering effective care utilizing the Allender Theory

Who is this Course For?

Story Sage: Frameworks & Tools is for people with a heart for vulnerability, healing, and freedom. Whether you are a counselor, pastor, teacher, small group leader, friend, or parent — this course is designed to develop and deepen the wisdom required to access not only the core of a story, but the core of the person telling it.

What’s Included in the Course

• 3 foundational lessons diving deep into the Allender Theory for story engagement
• 2.5 hours of video teaching from Dan, Cathy, and Rachael
• Rare access to footage of Dan reading a story from his life with prompts for in-depth engagement
• Downloadable workbook with reflection prompts and exercises designed to support you as you apply theory to practice
• Lifetime access to course platform and material

How this Self-Paced Course Works
This is a self-directed course, with lifetime access to the material. All content is available immediately upon enrollment to view at a pace that fits your schedule. Each of the three lessons includes about 45 minutes of video teaching followed by reflection and engagement exercises. Plan for a minimum of 2 hours to complete each lesson — in one sitting or spread out over several days — to provide optimum space and time to absorb and engage the content.

Access the Complete Story Sage Series
Frameworks & Tools offers foundational material of the two-part Story Sage Series. The second course, Family of Origin, offers deep dive application of the Allender Theory in which you will witness Dan engage in artful, sacred story work with a woman wrestling through a past experience of harm from her family of origin narrative, and gain deep insight into how the family we grow up in influences the impact of all forms of harm and heartache. Own both Frameworks & Tools and Family of Origins by purchasing the Story Sage Series: Access the Bundle and Save $29

Interested in a Group Purchase?
We offer to bulk discounts of 10-30% for small groups, teams, churches, and organizations enrolling 5 or more participants. Learn more and enroll your group here: Story Sage Group Orders

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