The Story That Remembers You: A Retreat for Spiritual Storytelling

The Story That Remembers You: A Retreat for Spiritual Storytelling

Dates: Sep 25-26, 2026

Times: 9 am - 4:30 pm (lunch is on your own each day)

Facilitators: Terry Kottman and Marshall Lyles

Retreat Description:

This retreat invites you into a slow, steady encounter with your own story, the one beneath the publicly polished versions, the one that has been waiting for a gentler kind of listening. Together, we’ll explore spiritual storytelling not as performance or persuasion, but as a practice of returning to yourself with curiosity, honesty, and compassion.

Across our time together, we’ll move between quiet reflection, guided prompts, shared meaning‑making, and creative expression. We’ll honor the parts of your story that feel clear, the parts that feel foggy, and the parts that have never been spoken aloud. No one will be asked to share more than feels right; this is a space where pacing, consent, and emotional safety lead the way.

You’ll leave with a deeper sense of your own spiritual narrative, its roots, its turning points, its sacred threads and with language that feels like it belongs to you. This is a retreat for anyone longing to reconnect with Spirit and with the story that has been shaping them all along, and to do so in community that knows how to hold tenderness.

Location: The Workshop, 300 Allen St., Austin, TX 78702

Registration info: The registration fee of $495 covers all materials and the provided snacks. Participants must secure their own lodging (feel free to ask for recs) and will be on their own for meals. This is a healing retreat and no CEs are available.