The Broommaker’s Path

A six-month mentorship in craft, connection, and becoming
October 2026 – March 2027

Core Intention

This mentorship is an initiation into craftspersonship.

It is for those who feel drawn to create. For those who know that making is not only about the things we produce, but about the experience we feel in our bodies as we craft. In this space exists an opportunity to go deep within ourselves, to unravel patterns and intentionally create what it is that we desire.

Broommaking is rich with metaphor and this program is an opportunity to really allow the craft to work on us and through us. What are we sweeping away to create room for who we are becoming? How does our nervous system settle as we engage with embodied repetition? How does this practice change the way we tend to our spaces?

You will learn to craft many different styles of brooms during this mentorship. But at the heart of this offering is an invitation to step into the center of yourself in a way that perhaps you’ve never done before. Through consistency of practice, being held in community, and the container that I will hold you in, you will transform over the course of these 6 months!

What This Mentorship Offers

• Identity Formation
  Moving from “learning a skill” into being a craftsperson. Developing confidence, awareness, and finding our own creative voice and expression.
• Rhythm & Continuity
  Regular classes and check ins help us to dive deeper, feel held and connected, and commit to giving ourselves this time to be in community working with our hands.
• Relational Craft
  Learning alongside others who share a devotion to making, depth, and meaning—fostering a sense of belonging and witnessing/being held.
• Embodied Regulation
  Broommaking as a grounding, nervous-system-regulating practice that invites presence, repetition, and attunement. 
• Connection to the Natural World
  Working with plant fibers and natural materials as a way of remembering our place in the wider web of life.
• Hands on Experience
  Practice, Practice, Practice in a supportive & intentional container

Structure & Flow

Duration

6 months | October – March

Monthly In-Person Gatherings

Tuesdays

Classes will be held in downtown Marshall, NC from 10am-4pm.

Each session will begin with a check in time and intention setting. We are not machines, we are humans – and full of dynamic experience. This is a space of honoring our process and developing relationship with each other as well as learning craft. Feeling seen and held opens up doorways for more authentic creative expression. This is about learning broom-making and its ALSO about delving into our own understanding of our selves – which includes those aspects that limit us as well as what we desire to create.

Class Dates

• October 13

• November 10

• December 8

• January 19

• February 16

• March 23

Materials & Support

A complete broom-makers kit ($80 value) :

• Foot treadle/winder
• Hand forged bodkin
• Stitching clamp
• Scissors

While enrolled in the mentorship training, you will have the option to purchase materials at a wholesale cost through my business. (Broomcorn, cord, and handles)

Monthly Open Studio / Drop-In Hour (online)

• I will facilitate a monthly online zoom meeting to answer questions and demonstrate techniques that you may be struggling with.

Who This Is For

This mentorship is for those who:

• Feel called toward craft as a way of life, not just a skill
• Long for consistency, depth, and relational learning
• Desire nervous system steadiness through repetitive, embodied making
• Want to be in community with others who value slowness, presence, and meaning
• Are ready to commit to practice and to themselves

No need to already “feel like a craftsperson”—this container exists to help you become one.

The Deeper Thread

At its heart, this mentorship is about remembering.

Remembering how to work with our hands.
Remembering how to stay with something over time.
Remembering how to belong—to a craft, to a lineage, to one another, and to the living world.

Broommaking is the practice that leads us deeper into ourselves.

 

Cost:

$1500 Pay in Full OR $1800 Payment Plan

Includes 6 Full in person class days, 6 online drop in hour calls, materials kit, all supplies during class sessions, option to purchase wholesale materials for use at home, private community thread, follow up 1:1 coaching/mentorship call during program or within 3 months of close.

I am happy to get creative with you on payment plan options, please just reach out to discuss.

To Apply, please fill out the Interest Form and pay a deposit to hold your spot!