Rewriting the Role: Stepping Out of Old Identities & Into Your Next Chapter

We all play roles we never consciously chose — the Good Girl, the Caretaker, the Invisible One, the Strong One, the Peacemaker, the Overachiever. These identities often began as survival strategies, shaped by family dynamics, trauma, or cultural expectations. But as we grow, they can become too small, too heavy, or too costly to keep carrying.

This workshop is an invitation to gently step out of the inherited scripts that have defined you — and step into the chapter you’re actually meant to live.

Through guided narrative exercises, expressive arts processes, and drama therapy–inspired rolework, we’ll explore the identities that have been shaping your choices… and begin rewriting them in ways that honor your truth, your power, and your emerging self.

You’ll leave with:

✨ A clear understanding of the unconscious roles you’ve been performing.

✨ Tools for recognizing when an outdated identity is running the show.

✨ A new, consciously crafted narrative that aligns with who you’re becoming.

✨ More confidence, visibility, and permission to take up space in your own life.

✨ A renewed sense of agency as you author your next chapter with intention.

This workshop is for you if you:

Feel stuck between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming

Struggle with visibility, self-expression, or taking up space

Have felt trapped in roles created by family, culture, or past relationships

Are ready to step into a more empowered, aligned version of yourself

Want to start rewriting your story, but aren’t sure where to begin

No acting experience required — just a willingness to explore, imagine, and tell the truth

You’re not here to perform a role anymore.

You’re here to become.

📍Event Details

Sunday, March 22, 2026 · 2 - 5pm

$37

Limited to 10 participants.

Additional Details:

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.

The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

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IMPORTANT: If you are not able to attend an event for which you have registered please contact us so that we may offer that space to someone on the wait list. Thank you.

✨ Led by Janna Browning

Janna Browning, MA, PRDT is a seasoned Trauma-Informed Drama Therapist, Expressive Arts Practitioner, Director, and and Co-Founder of Integrative StoryWorks (ISW). She has a private practice at Shakti in the Mountains were she sees individual and families. She received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston and her MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

In California, she worked with Armand Volkas in Healing the Wounds of History, which uses expressive arts therapy to bring together groups who share a legacy of historical trauma. Her work with HWH includes groundbreaking projects uniting Armenians and Turks to address the shared legacy of the Armenian Genocide, as well as facilitating dialogue and healing around the historical traumas of Palestinians and Israelis, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the deep racial wounds of the United States.

Janna has also worked with Community Performance International, a company specializing in community building across lines of difference, using the stories of a community in large-scale theatre performances. She helped develop Community Story Performances in towns across the South and created programming for schools. In 2011, she co-founded the StoryTown Program in Jonesborough, TN, which continues to this day.

As a grief practitioner, Janna brings her trauma-informed drama therapy expertise into the realm of community grief-tending—facilitating monthly grief rituals, keening circles, and embodied expressive arts processes to help individuals and communities honor loss, release what can no longer be carried, and make space for renewal. Her grief work draws from ancestral Celtic traditions, trauma-informed expressive arts, and ritual-based collective healing practices.

She is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories to heal individual and collective wounds, as well as StoryWander Travel, which offers escorted, story-based small group travel experiences.

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