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Intensive Overview
Two–Three Days · In Person
Personal Story Intensive

The story you've been living, finally understood

Thank you for considering this intensive. Most of us are shaped by stories we've never slowed down to read—and until we understand the story we're in, we keep living it out without quite knowing why.

Maybe nothing is "wrong," exactly—but something keeps repeating. A theme. A stuckness. A grief or pattern you can't quite name. That kind of work is hard to reach in shorter sessions weeks apart; the thread gets lost between meetings. An intensive gives us the focused, unhurried time to follow your story where it actually leads—and to do it in the room, together.

This intensive is shaped around you. Whether you bring a specific season, a recurring struggle, or simply a desire to understand yourself more honestly, each day builds on the last: your story, its themes, and a way forward.

Day One

Reading your story

Naming what shaped you

We begin where you actually come from. Not a clinical history, but the real story—the moments, relationships, and seasons that formed how you see yourself, others, and God. Day One is about telling it well and being truly heard:

Being deeply known—often for the first time—is its own kind of healing. By the end of Day One, the shape of your story begins to come into focus.

"We can't change what we won't name. But a story told and truly heard begins, almost on its own, to change."
Day Two

Seeing the themes

Why the same things keep returning

With the story on the table, Day Two looks for the patterns running through it—the themes that keep resurfacing in your relationships, your work, your faith, your inner life. What we don't understand tends to repeat; what we can see, we can begin to change.

We connect the dots between then and now—not to stay in the past, but to understand the present clearly enough that it no longer runs you. This is the heart of narrative work: meeting your younger self with honesty and compassion.

Day Three

A way forward

Integration, healing, and next steps

Understanding matters—but the point is a life that's different. Day Three is about carrying what we've seen into the future: tending what was wounded, releasing what you've outgrown, and stepping into a truer, freer way of living. We'll focus on:

We work entirely with your own story—never a template. You'll leave with a personalized take-home document: a written summary of your story, the themes and patterns we mapped, the core longings beneath them, and clear next steps you can actually live.

"You are not the sum of what happened to you. With your story understood, you're free to live a different one."

Logistics & Cost

From $2,400 · two or three days

The Personal Story Intensive can be shaped as a two-day ($2,400) or three-day ($3,600) experience, depending on what your story needs. If you'd like to stay close by, I can offer a well-appointed apartment minutes from my office at $150 per night, based on availability.

Mike Boland mike@cadence.rest · 407-808-0735