Mission
Everybody needs to be able to write something longer than a text or a tweet. Writing is a core, essential skill that can be used to communicate with others and discover more about who you are. Writing, reading, critical thinking, and communication are tools. Learning how to use these tools is too often inaccessible, protected behind the thick gates of academia.
We exist to change that.
What if learning to use language could be like taking a cooking class—fun and just for the heck of it? The Storybreath School is a haven for highly sensitive and neurodivergent people looking for trauma-informed processes for moving through blocks and following their creative process into writing their story in their true voice.
We serve highly sensitive & neurodivergent people
who are ready to write their story.
The Storybreath School empowers people to write what they mean when it matters in their own voice.
We show neurodivergent and highly sensitive people (HSPs) where their muse hides when creative block sets in. We help them shape their work into meaningful expressions of the soul and finish their memoir.
We dive into questions like how to shape memories into compelling stories and complicated ideas into simple language.
We work through the interpersonal and external barriers that keep people from writing and speaking with their true voice.
If you feel at a loss for words and end up confusing people by over-explaining complicated ideas, then let’s get to the depth of your language.
Our holistic vision for success
makes room for being a writer
in addition to your day–to–day identity by
teaching highly sensitive people to use
narrative healing for
grieving, making, and thriving
during life’s big creative stages.
FACULTY
Ash Wylder
Author
Memoir Writing Coach
Director of Strategic Chaos
Born in Minnesota, Ash now lives on the bank of the Columbia River in Southern Washington, surrounded by wilderness and wind. Ash wrote in order to make sense of the world. She has a run-amok imagination that has helped her publish her work under a pen name since 2010. She has taught groups of 250 people and performed improvised storytelling and rehearsed performance pieces since 2008. Her teaching style is fluid because people grow in a thousand different ways.
Olive the Heron
Director of Aquaculture
Creativity Trainer
Financial Strategist
Raised in Duluth, Minnesota, Olive the Heron survived polio in the 1920s and hides her leg braces beneath her rain boots. She married Forrest and raised strong Midwestern babies. Most of them moved to The Cities. Olive gave each grandchild and many great-grandchildren their first bath. Her affinity with water taught her how to live on in this heron doing the cultural work she was born to do and making sure everyone at the table has adequate jam for their toast.
Zoey (Monster)
Dean of Student Success
Media Coordinator
Well Walks Facilitator
When not chewing bones gifted by butchers or swimming with unspooling muses, Zoey spends her time sunning herself and then wandering the long hallways of The Storybreath School, looking for students to admonish for not petting her. Her academic history and proficiency come from being a disciplined rebel and highly sensitive listener. She knows when to break a good rule or dismiss the laws of the land altogether and thinks you should too. Her Deanship isn’t what you’d expect, and that’s a good thing.
We are a women-owned business with a small staff, which means we wear many hats around here!
If you’d like to get ahold of Monster, try checking the dining hall. (She’s always hungry.)
Olive the Heron can be found welcoming students in the Great Hall and offering homemade jam to alumni.
Ash is usually everywhere all at once, except on the weekends when she is undoubtedly outside and far, far away from her computer.