I run this course ONCE a year.​​​​
We being on March 12th!
STORY MAMMAL
a 6-week course
Reset your 'attention set-point'
Expand the story about you, about beyond
Does this photo provoke you?
Oh, good.
Ask yourself why.
Be curious.
These photos come from one of my retreats. Not staged. Real people communing with a river, each other and themselves. Attention there.
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There are two paths ahead of you.
1) You turn toward attention and your world opens up.
2) You decide you don't have time to address your attention and continue on same-old: itchy, uncomfortable, breathy, numbing and avoiding. ​​
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I get it.
Still, there is a choice to be made.
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What is the end of each story?
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Who will you be?
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Ideas only go so far.
We can philosophize all day about The Attention Crisis and make resolutions to look at our phones less, but that doesn't get us anywhere. To move the needle in our everyday lives, we need to address the nervous system, dopamine, and the way we narrate this situation inside to ourselves and out loud to each other. ​
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Our world needs you. You need you.
This workshop will be my most raw, juicy and present-moment one to date: nervous system + narrative. I care deeply about this question: How do we become alchemists of our own attention? Not a fluff phrase. Real. Timely. If you are reading these words, you know why your attention matters in the face of modernity. Will you let it atrophy, will you give it away mindlessly, will you lose yourself? Let us gather in a circle and gaze at the flickering fire together. We don't have to do more, but we do need to center an expansive, communal exploration of individual attention and collective focus. It's the only way. The attention wound is systemic so we heal it together through creating new shared systems, or here's a softer word: new ways. No silos here. No problem you need to fix about yourself. It makes sense that your attention is all over the place; in face, it's an appropriate response to the external. Now what, though? We aren't aiming to roll back to anything old-fashioned; we are meeting the new moment as alert and vibrant mammals.
Reclaim the tactile, the relational, the elemental, and your most valuable resource: attention. So that... you can actually pay attention.
For yourself. For our world.
Do you feel fractured, scattered, and chronically distracted?
Have you lost touch with a vital part of yourself?
Are you stretched too thin?
Overwhelmed by everything coming at you?
Do you hear "slow down" but not know how?
Is it hard to know what you want in the moment?
Are long periods of focus a thing of your past?
Are you body-curious?
Does living in this era both energize and exhaust you?
Does giving up and giving into it appeal because you just don't have it in you to do otherwise?
Can you ring your own bell?
My secondborn Bo Neve ringing an actual giant bell.
It's not your fault. It is your responsibility, though. Let's do it together. Let's make space for deep internal listening.
Humanity is in a huge transition. You are too. Are you here for it?
The time is now. We are evolving at lightening speed. The pace, volume and technological development of the world is here to stay. AI has arrived. The polycrisis is here too. In every direction, life is crumbling and up for renegotiation and re-making. It's what I call The TOO MUCH TOO SOON TOO FAST Era. Our nervous systems are experiencing a daily chronic and consistent low dose threat through notifications and screens, even if we "like" them. Plus the big existential question and reality around war and genocide and climate change. It's enough to make a person want to cope by tuning out or task switching until they forget where and who they are. However, .... within it all is a massive possibility, if we can stay awake. What will we become?! What will we innovate from within the chaos? We can't create if our attention is co-opted and colonized. Our world needs our solutions, our art, our collaborations, our ah-ha ideas that emerge out of the air when we aren't filling our brains with constant information, when we aren't consuming, consuming, consuming to the point of numbing.
You are what I call a story mammal. A what?! Well, it’s actually your homo sapiens nature. Your story (self-talk, mindset, beliefs) and your nervous system affect and shape each other—and your life. Without body, we stay stuck in our heads and addicted to reframes that can’t hold. Without story, we lose our language art and the powerful meaning-making of our heroine’s journey. Story and body are here to help you.
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Let's liberate our attention.
We will awaken the potent story of “who I am” because it influences every inch of your life and is/has been influenced by everything/one around you. It is your energetic signature. We use narrative and nervous system practices to land, over and over again, in a lush place where you experience, at long last, your own fluidity and latitude to hold the big things. Yes, you can maintain a vitality that doesn’t burn out no matter the externals. No, that doesn’t mean constant happiness. It means access to your inborn resilience during the expansion and contraction that is life. It’s no small revolution.
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You begin to hear your deep self and feel the ground beneath you. It’s highly personal and high communal. 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.​
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 always a nourishing multigenerational experience. Many women and non-binary folks who take my workshops are consciousness-raisers and change makers who hold space for others—as therapists, educators, bodyworkers, parents. Some consider themselves artists of some kind. Not necessarily professionally but as creators in life. Important side note: You DO NOT have to have written anything in your life to be here; story is your birthright. Most have hit rock bottom at least once in life. All are seekers. All are truth-tellers. All live with an existential wonder. Most aren’t devoted to being status quo. I can also 100% say that each person I’ve worked with has an adventurous heart.
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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."
What happens as a result?
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You will take yourself through a 21-day reset of your particular 'attention set point' (it lives in your nervous system) and emerge with a new and sustainable and trackable rhythm for yourself going forward.​
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You sharpen a focus skill that has become endangered everywhere else.
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You access the alchemy of myth for the human mammal.
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You will learn to fold seasonality into your life. Not an idea. For real.
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You literally LIBERATE your attention and get all that energy back!
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You resuscitate your ability to daily 1) experience the innate technicolor and beauty of the world and 2) tap into the renewable resource of creativity
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You broaden your capacity to feel and hold and move energy.
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You become an attention culture builder in your community.
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When​
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Next: March 12 through April 23
Format
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*Video recordings will be sent to those who cannot attend live
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6 live Zoom workshops with Molly on each Wednesday (1.5 hours), @ 10am MT
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6 live Q&As with Molly (1 hour)
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Real Time sharing and feedback
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Private Online Community Forum (NOT Facebook)
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Transparency Always: You will have 12 weeks 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.
Content
This is an organic, living, breathing experience. Our exploration happens in real time. We meet by Zoom and use the Story Mammal scaffolding to experiment with narrative and nervous system exercises around our attention. The course has an arc. We are exploring the ecology of your attention and how you can wield it to show up for yourself and the world.
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Week 1: Nervous System. Your body is a guiding force. What survival mechanisms have you developed around attention? Being distracted or hyper productive can be a wise adaptation developed early on. Being present to what is in front of you can feel too intimate. Hiding from the future is its own prison. What pockets of safety are available? External factors. Internal factors. Small doses. You will develop a relationship with your sensations and how to work with them.
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Week 2: Ancestry/Story/Beliefs. What is your past and present baseline with attention? How do you narrate your attention reality to your people? We identify your tensions, edges, resistance, desire, grief and resources, allowances, along with your possibility thresholds. How has your relationship with attention been shaped by others (family, friends, society) and by your own self? Where is there room for thickening the story?
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Weeks 3-5: Make a Plan. During this 21-day window, we will exquisitely track your nervous system and language. With my guidance and the collective wisdom of our group, you will self-design a way forward with your attention, taking stock of media, screens, circadian rhythm, in person time and more. Not philosophy but actual ways integrated into your life.
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Week 3: Organize. What has been unearthed? This organization unfolds like a dance—organic and rhythmic. We experiment with how the pendulation between trauma and resources creates resolution, lovingly name your impulses, and widen what and how you hold. What consequences are you willing to bear and what not?
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Week 4: Re-Language. You play with fresh meaning-making that both naturally surfaces from your body and comes from your conscious re-languaging. We use the power of embodied imagination and story and you learn to inhabit the evolving song of you—your pace, silence, proportion, voice, and weaving. Actual self-sourced phrases lead the way.
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Week 5: Your Voice. Express your essential self to your people. It’s an out loud frequency request of our community. We bust the myth of independence, align with our social animal nature and socialize our growth so others can hold it for us too. It’s a practice of discernment and tending. Lots of practice here around orienting to yourself within a greater whole.
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Week 6: Culture Building. Stand on the ground you have created. We find stability in the fluidity. We integrate (even more) your dynamic relationship between story and body and your continued attunement to your survival physiology. You become a steward of attention in your community: not in theory, in actual practice. You leave aligned with your story mammal and the 1,000 ways it can guide you forever.
Investment
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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 do trust that we all find the people and experiences we need.
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I've created a pricing structure to reflect the importance of community. If you do this work/play with a friend, the traction extends even more fully into your tactile life.
FULL PRICE $347
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FRIEND DEAL $200
If you sign up with a friend or person you want to befriend (doesn't have to be your bf), you each get a great deal.
Email me at info@mollycaromay.com and cc your friend and I will send you the code.
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EARLY BIRD $247
​Register by Saturday March 1st, at 10pm MT, midnight EST
Code = crane25
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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 huge barrier is encouraged to apply.
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About Molly
Molly Caro May is an author, teacher and story coach. Her most recent book, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood, was named a “searingly eloquent memoir” by Kirkus and excerpted in TIME. She has facilitated personal narrative workshops across the country for a decade. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing, a trauma resolution and nervous system resilience modality. You can read more about 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 11 and 8 years old.
