Study with HANA
all with live teaching and connection.
all with live teaching and connection.
Study with HANA,
all with live teaching and connection.
all with live teaching and connection.
Open Studio
Weekly Practice & Craft — Free
Join HANA's ongoing public offering, a weekly forum for storytelling, study of craft, guest interviews and workshops—led by David Alder and varied every week.
Parables Of Change
Ten-Week Masterclass — $1,400
An immersive study of story craft, personal power and voice, crafting a tale of personal transformation and gaining a toolkit to continue creating brilliant work
Foundations
One-Day Intensive — $425
A concentrated transmission of storytelling principles refined over seven years; tools to transform your creative process, sharpen your stories and fill your work with spirit
Explore our library of courses, all with live teaching and connection.
Open Studio
Weekly Practice & Craft — Free
Open Studio is the drumbeat of HANA's public offerings, a weekly session to practice storytelling craft, explore the principles of story and attention, workshop material, stay accountable to a creative process, and connect with a community of motivated peers.
The workshop stays dynamic, some weeks a series of storytelling exercises and a study of the elements that make a given story work, some weeks a live story feedback session with David Alder and one of HANA's fellows, some weeks a showcase of completed work.
Open Studio is a regular touchpoint between yourself and the story calling you, a step in wielding the power of your voice to shape the world.
The workshop stays dynamic, some weeks a series of storytelling exercises and a study of the elements that make a given story work, some weeks a live story feedback session with David Alder and one of HANA's fellows, some weeks a showcase of completed work.
Open Studio is a regular touchpoint between yourself and the story calling you, a step in wielding the power of your voice to shape the world.
Regular participants may choose to join as members, becoming patrons of the school and gaining access to content, community and courses, deepening their study of storytelling and finding support as they step toward greater moments in their work.
Explore our library of courses, all with live teaching and connection.
Foundations
One-Day Intensive — $425
Foundations is for people who feel the persistent call to raise their voice - to speak or write some truth that is coming through them, to raise their voice on behalf of life. The one-day intensive offers a wealth of tools, frameworks, and strategies for creating exceptional work in the midst of busy life.
The course is led by HANA founder David Alder, and offers a core sample of all his learnings mastering and teaching the craft of storytelling. He shares the tools he uses every day to create his own work.
The workshop is split into two parts—structure and craft. The first part is all practices you can implement to transform your creative process, creating the conditions for great work before you've started. The second is a synthesis of story craft—a crash course on everything David has learned as a storyteller, creative coach, and editor about what makes a story work, and how you can create soulful stories that hold attention in this shifting world.
The course is led by HANA founder David Alder, and offers a core sample of all his learnings mastering and teaching the craft of storytelling. He shares the tools he uses every day to create his own work.
The workshop is split into two parts—structure and craft. The first part is all practices you can implement to transform your creative process, creating the conditions for great work before you've started. The second is a synthesis of story craft—a crash course on everything David has learned as a storyteller, creative coach, and editor about what makes a story work, and how you can create soulful stories that hold attention in this shifting world.
If you feel you've reached a threshold in your life, where you know you have gifts to meet this moment in our world and are ready to step forward from a place of power, this course is for you. You'll leave the intensive prepared to begin a new chapter in your creativity, presence, and service.
Explore our library of courses, all with live teaching and connection.
Parables Of Change
Ten Week Masterclass — $1400
Parables Of Change is HANA's deepest public offering—a ten-week masterclass in story craft, supporting you as you reach for the greatness inside of you. The course is for those who've felt called to share a story that will no longer wait, people ready to wield their voice to make an impact on the world.
Alumni reflect on Parables Of Change as more than a writing course. It is an energetic container to help you bring your unique medicine to the world.
Alumni reflect on Parables Of Change as more than a writing course. It is an energetic container to help you bring your unique medicine to the world.
The course provides structure, accountability, and fellowship with driven, gifted peers to supercharge your creative process. Always taught live, HANA founder David Alder offers a toolkit honed over seven years of practice to find purity in creative flow. The container supports you in manifesting milestone moments along the way that will help align you with your deepest purpose and help you bring healing to your world.
"The outcome was not a story. The outcome was that I know that I'm an artist."
-Joe Hawley, seven-year NFL starter, Parables alum
If you feel you've reached a threshold in your life, where you know you have gifts to meet this moment in our world and are ready to step forward from a place of power, this course is for you. You'll leave the intensive prepared to begin a new chapter in your creativity, presence, and service.
Stories for Life
Stories as Medicine
Stories are tools to make meaning of a shifting world. Tribes need wise, spiritually deep role models to learn what it means to live well.
Stories for Change
Stories move stuck energy inside of individuals, relationships, and the collective. When channeled, crafted, and shared, stories heal.
Stories are spells that shape the world. Sacred stories illuminate the path toward healing and manifest a transformed world.
This moment is calling
for stories that serve life
for stories that serve life
HANA supports visionaries
whose wisdom helps us heal
whose wisdom helps us heal
HANA supports visionaries
whose wisdom helps us heal
whose wisdom helps us heal
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