story mammal
a 6-week course
The Threshold Edition
Crossing Through To The Next You
This course is underway.
Catch me next time!
Everyone alive in 2025 is standing at the foot of a threshold. Yes, it's a collective one and a highly personal one. Something big inside you is changing. Are you at an ending or beginning? Likely both. With a relationship, a place/home, a community, a career, or a way of being with yourself or your body.
Your metamorphosis is underway.
You are being called to transform at a rapid pace. We all are. But our nervous systems often grip to old patterns ("keep me safe!") and our familiar narratives insist on staying sticky. We can jam up in passage. Even though we "want" the shift to unfold, we stop the process. Familiar? Good news: you can't ever 'get it wrong' but it can be more fun, mythic and blooming, with a wide-angle wisdom. You can actually emerge with one hell of a gorgeous patina.
Let's use the age-old power of gathering alongside each other. Truth-telling. Generative. Each person communing with a threshold story. Our shared theme juices up and potentiates the individual outcomes. With our survival physiology working for us instead of against us. Possibilities abound.
Let us threshold (it's a verb too) together. Let's do it well.
I will be right there in my own process with you.
*This Story Mammal season I am crossing a literal threshold and that will ignite my work with you.
Will you walk through?
One threshold leading to another. .
All photos taken in some of my beloved places: Ireland, Spain, Utah, New Mexico.
The time is now.
Humanity is evolving at lightening speed. Life is crumbling and up for renegotiation and re-making. You could do nothing about it or you could step into the flow and be your own exquisite becoming.
You are a mammal of language.
Your story (self-talk, mindset, beliefs) and your body affect and shape each other—and your life. You have the blueprint (it’s ancient) to integrate them for a robust and expansive you. It’s a top down + bottom up process. It's your innate human medicine. Modern life has distracted us from it, but...
There is a path.
You ready?
Who is this workshop for?
I always trust the orchestration beyond me that brings an individual to a group and a group into being. My workshops are a nourishing multigenerational experience. Many participants are consciousness-raisers and change makers— therapists, educators, artists, bodyworkers, parents. All are seekers who live with existential wonder. Most have hit the deep trough of the wave at least once in life. Not one person has been interested in being status quo. Adventurous hearts, come one, come all.
Though I tend to attract women and non-binary folks, this workshop is open to anyone, men included. **You DO NOT need to have written anything in your life to be here. It isn't a "writing" course, though we do write. Remember, story making lives in your DNA.
Shannon Klohr
It’s been months and I’m still using the tools I learned from Molly. I’m still feeling the love of the community she wove together with us. I can’t say enough about the warmth she exudes and I never expected a Zoom class to be so intimate and wonderful. I would give this gift to myself again and again. It exceeded all of my expectations. And took me to unknown places. The material is gold.
Rebecca Thering
In Molly's spaces, I feel seen, heard, welcomed, a sense of belonging, and an admiration and tenderness towards my fellow Story Mammals. Her content and the way she shares it are top-notch. Articulate. Nuanced. Human. Encouraging. A full mind/body/spirit experience. Her structure and pacing allow for true integration. Ten out of ten recommend!
Charlie Rigg
I have never spent that amount of money on a course before, but I’m so pleased I did. Story Mammal opened a channel of creativity that has been blocked, or perhaps even hammered shut with planks and nails. A kind of dislodging happened. One day towards the end of the course, I ‘woke up’ and realised that I’d been creating, busily, passionately, scribbling and drawing, writing, dreaming up things that are now coming to fruition. Thank you, Molly.
Gursharn Rait
I want to give you a massive tight hug to thank you for this new world you've helped open up! It wasn’t just self-care; I was learning new concepts. Healing is what your course did. I came out of it feeling empowered and proud. It was essential for me. I love the element of play and freedom in your workshops. Your style is so clear and simple, no bells and whistles and it came straight from the heart. Mille merci."
When
Upcoming: This course is underway.
*Video recordings will be sent to those who cannot attend live
Format
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6 live Zoom workshops with Molly on each Wednesday @ 10am MT (1.5 hours)
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Sept 3
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Sept 10
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Sept 17 *We skip two weeks of "class" after this one while I cross my own threshold.
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Oct 8
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Oct 15
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Oct 22
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6 live Q&As with Molly (1 hour)
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Sept 4, 7pm MT
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Sept 10, 7pm MT
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Sept 18, 10:30am MT
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Oct 10, 9am MT
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Oct 16, 7pm MT
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Oct 23, 12pm MT
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Real Time sharing and feedback
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Private Online Community Forum (NOT Facebook)
Transparency Always: You will have 14 weeks (until Dec 10) to complete this 6 week course. Why? I believe in pressure as a tool for internal and external change. It's a boundary. It isn't loosey-goosey. It ignites. People are more likely to dive into the course and benefit from it if they know there's an end to it. I've seen that time and time again, and also in my own experience as a participant in courses. We are also fostering collective focus to create collective traction.
What do we "do" in this course?
This is an organic, living, breathing experience.
It has an arc.
I create a curriculum map and adjust/flow in real time based on what's I'm sensing from the group. We do it together through connection because no one evolves in a vacuum. We create a culture of witnessing and being witnessed. It is real-deal, playful and full of heart. Nothing prescriptive.
We explore your current Threshold with:
mythopoetic storymaking
somatic writing
engaging ancestors
nervous system explorations (not tips)
active listening
embodied sharing
embodied imagination
identifying survival mechanisms
tracking voice
physiology edging
re-languaging
titration and pendulation
culture building
You become a steward of your own self.
The ripple effect is real.
Investment
This is your monetary investment and it's a worthy exercise to identify all the intangible ways you are investing in yourself by choosing a course that feels aligned. If you feel drawn to me and my vibe and this course, welcome! If not, I have deep trust that we all find the people and experiences we need.
I've created a pricing structure to reflect and encourage the importance of community and our mammalian nature. If you do this work/play with a friend, the traction extends more fully into your tactile life. If you don't have a "friend," fear not. You will make many in this course!
FULL PRICE $347
FRIEND DEAL $197 each
***for the first 20 friend-teams who sign up
a "friend-team" is 2+ people
(for example, if you sign up with a crew of 10 that is one "friend team" and each person in it receives the $197/rate)
Email me at info@mollycaromay.com and cc your friend(s) and I will send you the code.
I create a handful of partial scholarships.
Please write to info@mollycaromay.com with information about how this course would benefit you.
BIPOC, LGBTQ+, single mothers and anyone for whom the cost is a massive barrier is encouraged to apply.
About Molly
Molly Caro May is an author, teacher and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Her book Body Full of Star was named a “searingly eloquent memoir." She has facilitated personal narrative workshops across the country for almost two decades and weaves nervous system resilience into the mix. You can read more about her incredible TEACHERS and what brought her to it personally here. Her mission is to democratize expression and explore, in good company, the healing alchemy between story and nervous system. Molly grew up in five countries and now lives in Montana with her husband and two children who are somehow already 12 and 8 years old. Facilitating is her song and she never tires of diving in with a group as she believes the only way through is 'alongside.'
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What if I can't attend all the live classes?That's okay. Some people go through the whole course via recordings. Please, though, ask yourself what you need? I recommend attending at least 6/12 live gatherings. It will be more potent and real-time for you.
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Why take a class about embodiment and nervous system online? Isn't that missing the point?I feel you; I'm a tactile woman and love to be in a room with people. However, not everyone can or chooses to invest time or money for an in-person experience. Energy transfers through Zoom in the most remarkable way. People in my courses have become life-long friends and build real relationships outside of the course. Online also affords a 6-week container (not possible in person unless localized) and way of gathering people across the globe. That kind of time rhythm gives you space to practice what you learn and integrate into your daily life as you go. Gold. In the meantime, look around you. If you don't have a community you can physically touch, it's a good time to start the process of finding one. Story Mammal supports that. Participants have radially altered their lives once they access their mammalian nature and realize they need/want/thrive with others around.
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I've taken other Story Mammal workshops. Will this be different?You know my answer to this one! Every iteration is different. Different people. Different Molly. Different moment in time. Different set and setting. You could do the same free write or somatic exploration (and no, they aren't always the same) over and over again and, because time doesn't stand still, you would experience it differently. Trust. If you are called, come join us. The work/play deepens. The more you experience it, the more it 'takes.' You know this. People tend to repeat my courses for this exact reason. You can hear the same thing for years and then BOOM, ah ha, oh my.
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Will this Story Mammal be different if Molly is gone for 2 weeks in the middle of it?Ooooo, hell yes. In the best way. I will be mid-threshold when I'm away. The living of a portal is ripe for me and that will make it more alive for you. In that way, it will be the most intimate Story Mammal I've facilitated because I will share my own CURRENT process, as opposed to past processes. It also gives you space to metabolize instead of rush through the experience. I will also create a container during those two weeks so you don't feel adrift in any way. All I can say is potent, potent, potent.
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I don't have much extra time. Is this course a lot of "work?"It's a choose your own adventure. The learning happens through being in circle and attending the workshops and Q&As. It's an oral experience. It's osmosis. For those of you who like to 'study,' there is course material (worksheets, information) to explore. People tend to learn more by showing up live. We hear what we are meant to. It's relaxed in that way. Deep trust.