Pause With Purpose: Your Story Lab (3/25)
Pause With Purpose: Your Creative Story Lab
TL;DR: A 3-hour creative workshop for women sensing that something inside is shifting, whether sparked by midlife transitions, life crossroads, or simple curiosity.
Through guided reflection and playful creative exploration (writing, drawing, storytelling, intuitive prompts, and more), Pause With Purpose offers space to pause, reconnect with your inner voice, and explore what may be emerging next for you.
No artistic experience required.
Curiosity is enough.
Stop playing the supporting role.
Start listening for the voice that’s been waiting in the wings.
Many women reach a moment when something inside begins to shift, often before they can fully name it.
Not a crisis. It doesn’t mean anything in your life is “wrong” or that you need a dramatic life overhaul.
Just a quiet sense that something within you is asking for more space, attention, or expression – a little more room to breathe and a chance to explore what else might be waiting.
Sometimes it’s the undeniable hum of peri/menopause – the sudden heat, the quick chill, the restless energy, the sense that the air has changed. Other times it’s another life turning point or season that no longer fits.
The roles that once made sense – the expert, the rock, the caregiver, the one who holds it together for everyone – may begin to feel a bit confining or narrower than they used to.
Pause With Purpose is a 3-hour creative workshop designed for women standing at that threshold.
It’s a space to step out of the noise and constant doing of everyday life to reconnect with the part of you that still wants to imagine, play, explore, and create what comes next.
This is not your typical workshop. No proven processes, five-step formulas, or magical methodologies doled out here.
Think of it as a creative lab – a time to pause, listen inward, gather in a small circle of women, and experiment with different ways of accessing your own voice and shaping your story.
What We’ll Explore Together
During our three hours, we’ll move through a series of guided, integrated creative and reflection exercises designed to open space for new insight, expression, and intention.
Depending on the group, we may reflect and play through:
Drawing
Watercolor
Reflective writing
Storytelling, with character and thematic exploration
Intuitive cards and prompts
Other playful creative exercises that help bypass mental noise and limiting beliefs
No artistic experience required.
Curiosity is enough.
The space is encouraging, safe, and non-judgmental. That’s a promise.
The goal isn’t to produce something “perfect.”
Instead, it’s to reconnect, in a small circle of women, with our creative life force that often gets buried beneath everyday responsibilities.
What You’ll Leave With
You won’t leave with insights alone or a piece of paper with a shortlist of things you intend to do.
During Pause With Purpose, you’ll create something tangible: a written reflection / narrative, creative artifact, or a personal Story Compass. Or all three. There are no rules or limits.
You’ll leave with something that captures the direction your inner voice may be pointing. Something you can return to when the everyday responsibilities and noise try to pull you back into making familiar supporting roles your main act.
About Your Guide
Dorothy Vollmer
Storyteller • Seeker • Seasoned Facilitator
I created Change With Purpose – the foundation for Pause With Purpose – after realizing that many women (myself included) spend years playing roles that look successful or fulfilling on the outside while quietly wondering:
Whose story am I actually living?
With a background spanning corporate strategy and transformation consulting, brand strategy, professional acting, and narrative exploration, I am finally doing what I really want: to create spaces where women can pause to reconnect with themselves, hear their inner voice, and experiment with their innate creativity.
Rather than offering formulas or frameworks, I host experiences that invite curiosity, reflection, and creative expression to help women reclaim agency over their own story.
My role is simple: to safely hold the space, guide the process, and support the group to enable the kind of clarity that can only emerge when women pause long enough to listen.
This Experience Is For You If
You’re navigating the shifts of perimenopause or menopause and feel a deeper story emerging.
The roles you’ve been playing for years no longer feel quite fitting or have consumed you.
You’re curious about reconnecting with creativity, intuition, and your own voice.
Life feels like it may be shifting, but you can’t quite articulate how or where it’s headed.
You are open to three hours of reflection, exploration, creativity, and possibility.
While many participants are navigating midlife transitions, this experience is open to any woman standing at a threshold.
The Logistics
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 25 from 11:30am to 2:30pm
Location: Woodside at Serenbe (address below)
The Investment: $125 (special one-time price for this debut experience)
The Circle: Limited spots by intention