Shape Your Career With Storytelling
Use proven storytelling tools & frameworks to reflect on your career journey and craft the job story you want to tell next.
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Your career is more than a list of jobs on your resume. It's your unique story.
You have the power to take control of your career narrative. When you do, you’ll be able to use your stories in powerful ways, whether that’s landing your next role, inspiring your peers, or influencing your organization.
This experience is part class and part group coaching. Over six weeks, you'll intentionally reflect on your job triumphs & failures, identify meaningful career themes, and speak truth to your true passions. You'll learn key storytelling skills and practice telling engaging and impactful stories that inspire action.
Join this small and supportive group for a journey of personal and professional growth. You'll boost your confidence and embark on an empowering path forward.
⭐️ BONUS OFFER: Everyone who enrolls will get a free 60-minute private story coaching or tarot reading session ($250 value) ⭐️
Who is this course for
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You're at a career turning point, but struggle to connect your previous work experiences to what you want to do next
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You're seeking a new job or promotion but need help identifying and shaping stories that illustrate your skills and talents.
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You want to reflect on your winding career journey but have a hard time motivating yourself to do it on your own.
By the end of our journey together, you'll be able to:
Identify career experiences that illustrate your talents, passions, and values
Explore key moments from your career using thought-provoking prompts and fun storytelling frameworks. Develop a list of career moments that you can turn into engaging and empowering stories.
Shape your stories to grab attention and connect deeper
Apply storytelling frameworks to make your stories clear, compelling, and concise. Develop the emotional undercurrent of your stories to unlock important life lessons.
Tailor your stories to inspire your audiences to take action
Every story has an audience, even if that audience is you. By understanding your audience on a human level, you can tweak your story to hook them and make a clear ask that will lead to action.
Confidently share at least one career story with your fellow students
We spend so much of our life at work, but we have very few spaces to share our work stories. We'll create a safe and supportive environment to share your stories, get feedback, practice active listening, and learn how to ask better follow-up questions.
Proactively create the career story you want to tell next
You are the author of your own story, so you get to decide where it goes next. Use storytelling prompts and techniques to imagine the career you want to build and map the journey you’ll take to get there.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Liz Morrison in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
14 live sessions • 26 lessons • 13 projects
Week 1
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🏆 What's Your Specific Storytelling Goal?
Submit by Mar 12 - ✍️
OPTIONAL: Share your Story Of Right Now
Submit by Mar 12 - 📘
📘 Moments of Magic / Moments that Sucked
Submit by Mar 20 - 🎥
🎥 LIZ STORY: "Humanly Impossible"
Complete by Mar 19 - 🎥
📚 Storytelling 101: What is a story, anyways?
Complete by Mar 20 - 🎥
📚 Storytelling 101: Story Foundations & Elements
Complete by Mar 20 - 🎥
📚 Storytelling 101: Story Scaffold
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📚 Storytelling 101: Proactive Storytelling
Mar
12
📺 EPISODE 1: What's Your Story?
Mar
13
✍️ [OPTIONAL] Group Journaling Time
📺 Episode 1: What's Your Story? (Pre-work & Worksheets)
You know you have stories, but how can you find them? In this session, we'll play fun games and do journaling prompts to identify many experiences from your career journey that could become meaningful stories.
💌 Homework 1: Journal Prompts & Videos
Week 2
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📚 Storytelling 101 Skills
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📘 Story Break Down & Build Up
Submit by Mar 26 - ✍️
📘 It's Really About - Your Current and Next Career Chapter
Submit by Mar 27 - ✍️
👍 Share an example of a career storytelling that resonates with you
Submit by Mar 27
Mar
18
✍️ [OPTIONAL] Group Journaling Time
Mar
19
📺 EPISODE 2: But It's Really About...
Mar
20
✍️ [OPTIONAL] Group Journaling Time
📺 Episode 2: But it's really about...
Stories are more than a list of things that happened. They include an emotional undercurrent, a story structure that keeps us engaged, and detail that helps us feel like we are part of the action. In this session, we will apply simple yet powerful frameworks to shape stories that connect.
💌 Homework 2: Journal Prompts & Videos
Week 3
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Untitled lesson
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📘 The Words We Use To Describe Ourselves Matter
Submit by Apr 3 - 📄
[BONUS ARTICLE] HBR - Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Yo
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[BONUS TOOL] Wordhippo
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👍 Share an example of a Linkedin Bio or About Me page that speaks to you
Submit by Mar 26
Mar
26
📺 EPISODE 3: Meet Your Audience
Mar
27
✍️ [OPTIONAL] Group Journaling Time
📺 Episode 3: Meet Your Audience
💌 Homework 3: Journal Prompts & Videos
Week 4
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Crafting Your Hi-Story Draft
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✍️ Share Your Hi-Story Draft
Submit by Apr 10
Apr
1
✍️ [OPTIONAL] Group Journaling Time
Apr
2
📺 EPISODE 4: Crafting Your Hi-Story
Apr
5
✍️ [OPTIONAL] Group Journaling Time
📺 EPISODE 4: Crafting Your Hi-Story
Week 5
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🎥 OPTIONAL WATCH: 📚 Your Brain On Stories [6 min]
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🎥 Optional: TED TALK: How your brain responds to stories
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📘 Full Story Brief & Practice
Submit by Apr 16 - ✍️
📘 Contamination Narratives vs Redemption Narratives in our Careers
Submit by Apr 16
Apr
9
📺 EPISODE 5: Storytelling in Conversation
Apr
10
✍️ [OPTIONAL] Group Journaling Time
📺 Episode 5: Storytelling in Conversation
💌 Homework 5: Journal Prompts & Videos
Week 6
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📝 Storytime! & Our Future Story
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📘 Core Values Worksheet
Submit by Apr 23 - ✍️
📘 What's In Your Career Cake (Need / Want / Nice)
Submit by Apr 23
Apr
15
✍️ [OPTIONAL] Group Journaling Time
Apr
16
📺 EPISODE 6: Storytime! (Part 1) + Our Future Story
📺 Episode 5: Storytime Part 1 & Our Future Story
Everyone will have a chance to share their story with the class and get feedback. (We split this up over 2 sessions.) We will also spend time reflecting on the type of story we want to tell about our future careers.
💌 Homework 5: Core Values & Cake!
📺 Episode 6: Storytime (Part 2) & Moving Forward
More great stories from the class! Plus, we will review all that we've learned and we will create some actionable steps on how to make our future stories a reality.
Bonus
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TED TALK: 10 ways to have a better conversation
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ARTICLE: LIFE’S STORIES - By Julie Beck The Atlantic, 8/10/2015
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VIDEO: How to remember your life by Jonny Harris
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TED TALK: The Science of Storytelling | Will Storr | TEDxManchester
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BOOK: The Science of Storytelling
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TED TALK: The magical science of storytelling | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholm
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TED TALK: How to triple your memory by using this trick | Ricardo Lieuw On | TEDxHaarlem
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BOOK: Your Story, Well Told by Corey Rosen
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BOOK: Stories that Stick by Kindra Hall
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BOOK: Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
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TED VIDEO: 4 things all great listeners know
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🎥 Paul Zak - Empathy, Neurochemistry, and the Dramatic Arc [7m]
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PODCAST: How humor and storytelling converge
BONUS: Storytelling videos, books, and other resources
Here are some of my favorite storytelling resources, including books, videos, talks, podcasts, and articles. I've leaned heavily on these resources as I've developed this course. I hope you like them too!
(PS: Please add any resources you like to the 💬 GENERAL channel and I will include them here too!)
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Meet your instructor
Liz Morrison
Liz Morrison
Storytelling Coach & Consultant
You have a story that can change the world.
Don't believe me? With over 15+ years producing human-centered content for companies (Airbnb), campaigns (Obama 2012), causes (Idealist.org), and cable (Bravo, NatGeo, Discovery), I've helped hundreds of regular people (and some celebrities) identify their most powerful stories and use them to motivate others to take action.
Then in May 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, I got laid off. It was devastating. I turned to storytelling to help me cope.
I said, "this is a story about the time I lost my job, but it's going to be the story about how I found myself." I reflected on what I found most meaningful across all my various jobs and projects, and used that to shape what I wanted to do next. Turns out storytelling plays a big part in that, too.
Now, I lead engaging workshops and tailor bespoke consulting based in the art and science of storytelling. I've developed storytelling tools and frameworks that make it easy for you to get creative and connect your stories to your goals.
I built this course to bring you on a journey of self-reflection and personal growth using storytelling as our guide. Because you have a story that can change your world. It's just waiting for you to find it.
Six Weeks To Career Confidence
3-4 hours per week
6 Tuesdays
4:00pm - 6:00 PM/PT
Our two-hour sessions will be a mix of group activities & games, small group breakouts and story practice, and time for individual reflection and journaling.
Optional Group Journaling Time
5 Thursdays | 1 hour
We're all really busy. Finding time to do the guided journaling prompts can be hard. So let's do them together! We'll kick off with a brief intro, have quiet working time, and come back for a nice reflection on the exercise.
Note: We'll poll the class to pick a recurring time.
Individual Reflection & Video Lessons
1 hour per week
This course comes with a number of guided journaling prompts to help you go deeper. There will also be a number of video lessons that build on concepts we cover in class.
3 + 6 Month Cohort Check Ins
TBD
We will regroup as a cohort 3 months and 6 months after our course to check in and continue to practice our skills. It's a great way to stay in touch with the folks in the course, and get celebrated for all your wins.
[BONUS] Private Story Coaching or Tarot Reading
⭐️ Everyone who enrolls will get a free 60-minute private story coaching or tarot reading session ($250 value) ⭐️
Turn the page into your next career chapter
Know yourself better
Using the guided journal prompts and activities, you will become really proud of how far you've come, and get clear on where you want to go next.
We're in this together
You never know who needs to hear your story. We'll have lots of group breakouts and chances to share your story with the class. This fosters a deep sense of connection with your fellow classmates. You might even make a new friend or networking buddy!
Not your typical career-focused class
This class will NOT teach you how to write the best resume, optimize your Linkedin, or ace every interview. Think of it as the first step in that direction. This class WILL help you understand your bigger-picture career story, and how to tailor your stories for different audiences and scenarios.