Reclaim Your Story. Reclaim Yourself.
The Lab isn’t just about reflection — it’s about action. You’ll leave with a story you can stand in, a process for navigating complexity, and a community that’s with you long after the Lab ends.
Here, your story is sacred, alive, and embodied.
What is the Endarkened Narratives Lab?
The lab is grounded in Endarkened Narrative Inquiry (ENI). ENI is a research framework and creative methodology that centers the stories, knowledge systems, and lived experiences of those traditionally pushed to the margins. Rooted in decolonial traditions and embodied ways of knowing, ENI challenges dominant paradigms by embracing reflexivity, spirituality, and cultural nuance as essential to meaning-making. Rather than extracting data, ENI invites researchers, storytellers, and truth-seekers to engage in a relational, justice-oriented process of storytelling that honors complexity, interconnection, and transformation. It is an inquiry into what has been hidden, silenced, or shadowed—and a reclamation of voice, agency, and ancestral wisdom.
- A contemplative, creative 12-week space
- Grounded in Endarkened Narrative Inquiry
- Honors the personal, cultural, and spiritual layers of storytelling
- Welcomes resistance, depth, and layered truth
The Journey: Six Phases of The Endarkened Narratives Lab
Awaken – Awareness of self, context, and legacy
Engage – Relationships with others, history, and our environment
Integrate – Spirituality and culture as knowledge
Examine – How we show up in our stories
Transform – Knowledge into wisdom
Embody – Your final creative narrative artifact
What if your story wasn’t something to fix...but something to come home to?
Is This Lab for You?
This hybrid experience is for people who wrestle with:
- Perfectionism + burnout
- Pressure to produce without Rest
- Feel disconnected from purpose
- Creativity blocked by overwhelm
"…before we started our journey together, I definitely felt imposter syndrome, like I wasn’t good enough, like I didn’t know enough and I struggle with that but working together has helped me put things into perspective." -Ananda M.
What You’ll Walk Away With
- In 12 weeks, you’ll move from fragmented to grounded — with a narrative artifact in your hands and practices that make your work sustainable.
- A deeper, more integrated understanding of your story.
- Narrative practices you can return to anytime your work feels heavy.
- A structured process (the ENI Reflexive Cycle) you can apply beyond the Lab.
- A reflective artifact (essay, audio story, creative piece) you can share or keep.
- A supportive community that doesn’t just “talk about reflection” but practices change together.
- A story you can tell with confidence, clarity, and power — in your writing, teaching, leadership, or next career step.
Are You Ready to Reclaim Your Narrative?
If you’re ready to pause, listen, and reimagine your story on your terms — we welcome you.
Your story is breath, memory, spirit, resistance, and becoming. Think of it as reflection with receipts: concrete tools, real writing, and a story you can use right away.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Lab is a creative and contemplative experience rooted in Endarkened Narrative Inquiry — a methodology that honors the emotional, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. It’s a space for remembering, unlearning, and reimagining your story on your own terms.
It’s a methodology that invites you to explore your story not as data, but as sacred knowing. It centers lived experience, ancestral wisdom, spirituality, and relationality — resisting linear, extractive narratives and honoring the complexity of being.
This space is for those who are ready to pause.
For those tired of performing.
For artists, educators, dreamers, scholars, and seekers who want to reclaim their voice, reimagine their legacy, and tell their story from within.
No. You just need to come with a willingness to reflect, create, and be present with your story. The final artifact is creative, yes — but the process is deeply personal. No prior experience is required — just openness.