Praise

  • Nancy is grounded not just in history, myth and depth psychology, but in plant and mineral medicines, and yogic and archetypal understandings of the bodymind. Her way of teaching is like unfolding a bud into a many petalled blossom. Pieces of puzzles fit together with true integrity, not limited by the myth, but richly informed by it.

    Ramsay Raymond, Psychotherapist

  • I come from these workshops deeply stirred in positive nourishing ways, finding answers and inspiration to the very daunting issues we are living. Nancy's guiding lamp in the dark illuminates fresh perceptions and perspectives.

    A cranial-sacral therapist

  • Nancy helped us find the keys to open our own transformational garden back into living expansive possibilities...

    An Olympic skating instructor

  • Each day I felt my whole self being held, nurtured and fed such delicious, nutrient -dense information. Nancy's intuitive storytelling style of teaching awareness, pure perception, structure and archetype deeply resonated on a soul level, allowing me to receive the information with ease. I feel deeply inspired. . . The ripples this teaching can create for the higher good of the collective child soul are profoundly healing.

    Cindy Edwards, Mindful Schools

  • Your humor, strength and wisdom are irradiated with compassion as you create a safe oasis. . .Thank you for being a vital part of this gathering

    Marjorie Reabach, Educator and artist

  • This work is so urgently needed in our time. Nancy taught us practices to foster humility, heart-felt empathy and courage for the truth. Writing and story-creating helped break down my performance anxiety and resistance , and I feel emboldened and encouraged to continue regularly flexing my "story muscles."

    Karen Pickarski, Author and educator

  • Nancy shares a unique blend of artistic and practical, ancient and wise abilities that allow anyone to realize the creative within them. She also possesses the gift of presenting her material in refreshing ways that help people realize their human nature. She has brought out in me a profound and enduring view of myself which has changed the way I relate to myself and the world.

    Nancy White, R.N.

  • I am enriched personally, professionally, and spiritually by my work with Nancy in 'Body Eloquence.' Deep exploration of the many realms of the body allowed us to connect to the physical, as well as the mystical and archetypal expression of all the interrelated systems, and to experience real personal transformation in the process!

    Patti Shimakawa, energy healer and SoulCollage(R) facilitator

  • As founding director of the School of Storytelling at Emerson College, I have experienced Nancy Mellon as an invaluable colleague and advisor during many years since the founding of the school. Her courses and workshops, always fully enrolled, have covered such topics as: Storytelling as a Healing Art, Wonder Tales and Inner Development, Storytelling in Therapy, The Art of Personal Storytelling, Myth and Mothering, How the Body Speaks, and much more. She has fused her teaching into a multi-faceted whole, as poet, storyteller, author and outstanding facilitator.. I have often seen Nancy's firm warmth work wonders, even with those difficult characters who can spoil group experiences for others.

    Ashley Ramsden, Storyteller extraordinaire

  • To push ahead on such a learning journey with Nancy is soon to uncover creative strengths in yourself, a healing music you had no idea was in your heart and soul to sing.

    W. Kirk Avery LMHC, retired professor and storyteller

  • The workshop I attended with Nancy Mellon offered me a window into my soul and the creative powers that reside there. What was remarkable was that the workshop did the same for each participant, and the result was an outpouring of creativity that the room came alive with pleasure, excitement, awe, mystery, magic and deep healing. Her storytelling work is profoundly important, especially now when our world desperately needs the wisdom power of our collective imaginations to create transformations.

    Zoe Weil, Institute for Humane Education, Surrey, Maine

  • Nancy Mellon is a superb teacher. She turns each lesson into a shared adventure. With Nancy, I learn not only with my head, but with my heart and body as well. I treasure every moment I have spent in her workshops.

    Bob Reiser, Teacher, author and storyteller

  • I learned from you that imagination is a word that points to the creative fire in each of us...

    Jim Glaser, Poet

  • Nancy Mellon is a powerful teacher, storyteller, writer, and guide. I recently had the pleasure of attending one of Nancy's Body Eloquence workshops and I came away feeling that I had been entrusted with an exceptional and deeply humane kind of learning, the kind that speaks to head, to heart, and to body all at once. Nancy weaves together . . . an experience of wholeness and hope. . . I am inspired to embody her beautiful lessons in my life and in my storytelling.

    Kate Chadborne Ph.D., Singer, poet, musician, teacher of Celtic lore

  • It's powerful stuff you are bringing and it's offered with wisdom, humor, and great insight. Thanks for adding so much to our school community!

    Lisa Maher, Administrator, The Monadnock Waldorf School, Keene, NH

  • I enter a new world, different dimensions, and I clearly see myself in the possibilities that were, are, and can be.

    Monica Gallardo, Early childhood educator

  • Nancy’s method contains tools for growing the seeds of infinite possibilities. She gathers together all the disparate threads of knowing that I have and helps me to weave them into a fabric of wisdom.



    An educator

  • Each day restored wonder and magic that was truly enlivening. We learned to find true inspiration through our work with empathy for the other, and trust in ourselves. This week has been invaluable as a teacher and a human being.

    Jaimee Rungsitiyakorn

, San Francisco

  • This workshop was one of the best I have ever experienced. We had a very diverse group, and Nancy was able to address questions easily, and with wisdom. The power of storytelling is so much more a part of my heart after working with her.

    Heather Maranto

  • Thank you, Nancy. Empathic storytelling is one of the tonics that will help us keep our humanity globally, and there must be continued support for this. There need to be places where therapists, ministers, doctors, parents and students can learn to apply these invaluable tools. People with trauma, illness and physical impairments can be helped through the valuable process of creating and sharing stories.

    Elizabeth Nuti, Wykoff NJ