Leah is a Story Practitioner who engages story as a tool for healing, personal growth, and good humaning.
She grew up in the house of an artist, and the arts have always been at the center of her core. Her journey went from a farm in Vermont, to NYC. She learned of death and loss early in life, and found writing and theater to be a place of not just sense making— but a way and place to move the energy through.
She approached the arts through professional study at the School for Performing Arts, Studio Theatre of Richmond, The Neighborhood Playhouse, and Williamstown Theater Festival, and learned at a young age that she wasn’t enamored by the business of storytelling.
She turned towards the wilderness leadership studies (frankly because that’s where the interesting people were) and a world she didn’t know she was waiting for revealed itself. She spent the next 7 years as a wilderness guide for Outward Bound, eco-tourism, and youth-at-risk centers. She went on to get a Master’s in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University, with the belief that we can’t heal the world until we heal ourselves.
Along the way she began weaving her passion for the arts with her passion for the natural world— she was the arts and dialogue consultant for The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, and integrated the arts with communication for social impact through PSAs and documentaries.
She moved to the Bay Area, where she hosted The Green Channel for Al Gore’s Current TV, and covered The UN Climate Talks in Paris & Copenhagen. Her writing has been featured in Spirituality & Health Magazine, Good Magazine, National Geographic News Watch, Fast Company, and Huffington Post.
But turns out the change she wanted to be part of doesn’t happen through the delivery of information. It comes from somewhere else, so she turned toward the 13 Moon Mystery School and the Orphan Wisdom School to expand her understanding— and eventually found the stream her genius flows through: Sacred Storytelling.
Her courses and retreats explore the relationship between story, earth, spirit, and healing, and how this alchemical union impacts our consciousness and capacity to access the unseen world. She is committed to creating spaces where participants can explore human consciousness and life mastery.
She has produced and guided Sacred Storytelling Ceremonies around the country, and has presented at Bioneers, Hollyhock, Google, among other conferences.
She founded The School for Sacred Storytelling in 2017, where the Myth, Magic, & Medicine: Storytelling for a New Paradigm, Speak Your Spark, Tell a Bigger Story, and The Alchemy of Story programs live.
“Leah’s work is rich, expansive, and essential. She isn’t just a storyteller and her work is not just about storytelling. Leah is a midwife holding space for the creative force to move through us and birth a new paradigm.”
— Claudette Thomas