Storytelling Adventure Experience™

A story is different once you’ve lived it.

I created the Storytelling Adventure Experience™ to take storytelling workshops outside the meeting room. I guide speakers, leaders, and teams through a place, with exercises that help them notice more, find their stories, and practice telling them.

From Portland and Bend to Miami, New York, Austin, Dallas, and San Diego, every adventure is shaped around the people, the place, and what they need to say.

Plan your adventure
Storytelling Adventure Experience group with Cathey at a waterfall

The adventure in motion

Watch the work unfold.

Come along for a look at one Storytelling Adventure Experience™. You’ll see the group explore, work through ideas, and practice telling stories together. Turn on the sound when you’re ready.

How an adventure works

The place becomes part of the story.

We start with what your group needs to say. I shape the route and the exercises around that goal, then guide people through observation, conversation, and live storytelling practice. We take the Idea Map™ thinking out into the world.

It could be a waterfall, a city street, or a familiar place seen with fresh eyes. People return with a clearer idea, a story they can tell, and the memory of working it out together.

Cathey and a Storytelling Adventure Experience group together in the city at night

Made for the place

Every city tells a different story.

I’ve led adventures in Miami, New York, Portland, Bend, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and beyond. Your group’s experience will be designed for its own place and purpose.

Miami New York Portland Bend Austin Dallas San Diego
Cathey and a Storytelling Adventure Experience group in Miami

Who comes along

For groups with something to say.

I build each Adventure around the people in front of me and the stories they need to tell. Here are a few places it fits.

Teams and leaders

When a team needs to explain its work more clearly, we get out of the meeting room and find the human stories behind it. People practice telling those stories to each other before taking them back to the organization.

Speakers preparing together

A TEDx lineup, conference cohort, or group of leaders can work on their talks in a way that gets everyone thinking differently. We find the idea, try the story aloud, and learn from hearing one another.

Events and retreats

Give people something more useful than another session in a chair. I design an adventure around your place and theme so participants make connections, work with an idea, and leave with a story they can use.

Communities and causes

For people working toward something together, the right story can help others see why it matters. We find the moments that carry that purpose and practice telling them in a way that invites people in.

Make it yours

Where could your story take us?

Planning a team offsite, a retreat, or an experience for your speakers? Tell me about your group, where you’ll be, and what you want people to take away.

Start a conversation
Storytelling Adventure Experience group together in Miami