I update this page regularly with my latest online and in-person classes in storytelling, memoir and more.
Why take a class with me? I founded The Moth's Education Program, hold a PhD in narrative, and I'm an award-winning storyteller myself. Also these classes are extremely fun. Ask my students.
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Tuesdays, 7-9pm ET
6 weeks starting March 17, 2026
ONLINE
Find the stories you want to tell, and shape them into memoir, stories for performance, or essays. This is a small class with lots of feedback and sharing!
A 60-minute workshop
Friday, March 6th at noon ET
ONLINE
We’re changing all the time. So why do we keep telling the same frozen version of our stories? In this interactive workshop, you'll learn to use a tool called "emotional timestamping:” you'll take a story from your past and examine it through fresh eyes.
Thursdays, 6-8pm ET
5 weeks starting March 5, 2026
IN PERSON IN PORTLAND, MAINE
If you like The Moth or Risk, come tell stories in a supportive environment! You'll brainstorm, shape and share your own story for performance, and we'll conclude with a share for family and friends.
Thursdays, 6-9pm ET
5 weeks starting January 29, 2026
ONLINE
This is a writing craft class about using oral storytelling strategies to find your writing voice! We'll focus on adapting spoken word to writing, and how to find our "voice fingerprint--" the way we can sound exactly like US on the page.
A 60-minute workshop
Wed, Sept 17 at 1pm ET
ONLINE
Telling our stories out loud can help us process the world around us, AND the world inside us. Join me to find, shape and share the stories of your life transitions that can inspire memoirs, poems, or just the best cocktail party story you ever told.
Wednesdays, 8-10pm ET
September 2025-March 2026
In 28 weeks of What Matters, you'll read in community, learn from spiritual leaders and artists, and build clarity and intention around your values. A new cohort is launching in 2027!
Sundays in October & November, 2024
Sidestep your inner critic, and get to know yourself in powerful ways, with eight weeks of planning and writing a story from your life.
We'll be opening this class again in 2026 - subscribe to my newsletter to be the first to know!
I feel so lucky that we got to have you teach us how to tell stories. You did so with such generosity and care as a teacher. I'm just wowed by how you got all of us to find the story we needed to tell.
Saying simply thank you for these last few weeks, feels so inadequate. Not only did you teach me and us to find the beauty, power, and humor in our smallest stories and to express it in a tight five, but you created such a caring, supportive, fun environment in which to do it.
Thank you for making me feel like storytelling is fun and exciting rather than extremely nerve wracking. And for being so excited for all of us and encouraging us to try something scary.
The first time I talked in front of a mic, I was six. I froze and cried on stage. Today, thanks to your workshop, I'm being a grownup and holding a hand out to my inner kid, and leading us back to the stage.
Thank you for your energy and intuition. You are so great at knowing what type of storyteller each of us is.
Thank you for sharing yourself so wholly with us. From your invaluable wisdom to your bright humor, to your depths of emotional vulnerability, it has been both an immense joy and an awakening to learn from you. You provided me with an opportunity to think differently with more love about a decision that has so meaningfully changed my life and my being.