About the course

Social change work carries grief, complexity, and moral weight in the body. Fairy tales and myths are ancient story technologies that help humans move through fear, loss, and transformation without losing themselves. This session explores how mythic storytelling supports inner healing, nervous-system resilience, and sustainable, ethical action for changemakers.

About the Guide -

Janelle Hardy is a writer, somatic healer and master craftswoman of embodied story. 

She’s the creator of The Art of Personal Mythmaking, a body-centric transformational memoir-writing course, and host of two annual summits—the Healing Through Writing Festival and Dirty, Messy, Alive: Embodied Memoir-Writing Workshop Series.

With over 17 years and 6,000+ hours of hands-on bodywork experience, she is certified in Somatic Experiencing® and Structural Integration.

She’s logged 1,500+ hours of trauma-informed group facilitation, where she unites bodywisdom and storycraft to help people heal and write their memoirs through the body, drawing on ancient stories such as fairy tales and myth.

Janelle has guided people from all walks and wild corners of life—young single mothers and organic farmers, tradespeople and computer scientists, psychotherapists and novelists, spiritual directors and retirees,  even former Members of Parliament—to transform the raw material of their lives into healing, story, and the first drafts of their memoirs.

A born-and-raised Yukoner and single mother, Janelle has worked in the hands-on healing arts since 2007 and as an artist—in writing, painting, and dance—for over 17 years. She’s taught adults everywhere from her living room to universities, weaving her BA in Anthropology, MA in Dance, and Certifications in Somatic Experiencing® and Structural Integration into a creative practice rooted in bodywisdom, storycraft, and mythic imagination.

Her hometown, Whitehorse, Yukon, sits on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün and Ta’an Kwäch’än Peoples—a landscape that still shapes her love of wildness and story.

FREE GIFTS - 

1. 10 Impactful Memoir-Writing Prompts For Healing and Transformation

2. 10 Gentle Yet Effective Ways to Heal Painful Memories Using Writing & Your Body

3. Workshop : Outline Your Memoir : a free 2 - hour on-demand workshop