Awaken Your Story
Discover the meaning taking shape in your life
This workshop uses the same approach we bring to our eighteen-month engagements, condensed into a single immersive session. Participants leave with a new understanding of the patterns in their own lives and what their experiences might be preparing them to say.
"The openness and honesty were incredibly powerful... I saw the narrative of my life in a way I hadn't before."
- Jennifer East, Founder of Onida
Awaken Your Story Workshop
Most leaders spend years building without pausing to ask what it all means.
This workshop creates that pause.
Awaken Your Story is a guided, experiential gathering that helps leaders slow down and recognize the meaning already embedded in their lives. Not as a performance or a confession, but as an act of discernment.
In a carefully held group, Caleb Breakey guides participants through the same story-mapping framework Renown uses in its long-form work with families and founders. Rather than teaching storytelling as a skill, the workshop invites participants to observe their own life as a coherent narrative already in motion.
Through short teachings, lived examples, and guided reflection, participants begin to notice patterns they may not have named before. Early moments that shaped identity. Turning points that clarified values. Seasons of loss, disruption, or risk that, when seen together, begin to reveal purpose rather than randomness.
The experience is intentionally paced. Participants listen, write, and reflect privately, with select opportunities for paired or small group conversation that are grounded, respectful, and invitational. Sharing is never required and always self-directed.
By the end of the workshop, participants leave with a personal story map and clearer language for the journey they have lived, the wisdom it has formed in them, and the contribution they may be uniquely prepared to offer others.
Meet
Caleb Breakey
Caleb founded Renown after noticing a quiet pattern. Again and again he met leaders who sensed they carried something worth passing on, yet struggled to see clearly what their life had actually meant.
His gift is reflection. Caleb helps leaders recognize the meaning within the story they have lived and shape it into something others can receive.
Over the past fifteen years he has helped bring more than 200 works into the world. Today he works with a small number of families and leaders each year as Book Director at Renown, helping them give voice to the story entrusted to them and shape it into work that carries purpose beyond their lifetime.
Transformational Outcomes
What Participants Say
“People shared very vulnerable information about their lives. I noticed a few were fighting off tears as they wrote... The result? Fifteen women asked to follow up.”
-Cindy Rowland, River Hills Group
“I’ve seen what happens when someone finds the courage to share their story. It’s pure magic.”
“Getting people to talk the way they did and bond through authenticity was such a huge value.”
-Kyle Circle, Flourishing Family
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