Welcome to StoryMoss!
We are a creative, heart-centered partner in collaborative StoryWeaving and StoryHealing, initiated by Emmanuelle Chiche and Megan Lindow in July, 2025. A young initiative rippling into wider collaborations with inspiring regenerative practitioners and thinkers around the world, taking joy in weaving, exploring, supporting and amplifying the collective field of regenerative storytelling.
Together we are co-creating a mossy forest of bioregional storytelling – from the forests of the Congo River Basin to the Eternal Forests of Portugal (and the world) to the Fjords of Norway to the indigenous food landscapes of South Africa. We are crafting and amplifying stories of people, places and permaculture, trees, animals, insects, mountains and water bodies across Planet Earth. We are exploring the wisdom, ideas, embodied knowledge and practices to help heal our collective heart – Warm Data, Collective Healing, Theory U, Thrutopian narratives, Biopoetry, interspecies collaboration, plant sisterhood and more!
In collaboration with the Pocket Project, r3.0, the Global Earth Repair Convergence, Ecosystem Restoration Communities and other partners, our purpose and joy is to co-weave stories from different perspectives and ways of knowing, infusing them with creativity, beauty, kinship, resilience, deep ecology, eco-spirituality and Active Hope. Discover the core of our work with our StoryWeaving Salons and StoryHealing conversations.
StoryMoss recalls Robin Wall Kimmerer's story of how a humble species first emerged from the oceans 450 million years ago to adapt and co-create hospitable conditions for life on the land, enabling the web of life as we know it today to flourish. We humans are the storytelling animals. Many of us are co-creating and living into new stories of beauty and possibility as we strive to hold the grief of collapse and unlearn stories of colonization and exploitation that we were born and conditioned into. Like those ancient mosses, we are feeling our way towards ways of regenerating our lives, communities and bioregions through regenerative storytelling.
Please hit the subscribe button to support and follow our work, and also find us on YouTube, Podbean, Substack, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Our Creative Studio also offers bespoke narrative, editorial and coaching services:
- Regenerative, healing-centered story coaching
- Social permaculture design
- Writing coaching and book doula support
Email us at storymossmagazine@gmail.com
About Us
Emmanuelle is a permaculture designer and a mindset creativity coach, trained in trauma-informed and resilience practices and equipped with a healing toolkit for universal healing of Earth and our collective heart. She takes inspiration through transformative interweaving of all kinships harvested and shared in stories and land restoring projects around the world. She is Co-Founder of StoryMoss with Megan Lindow, they coined StoryWeaving and StoryHealing and are promoting the healing joyful power through their bioregional weaving and coaching. They are launching the new Thruthopian writing camp initiative with the Bioregional Pen Pal network.
Megan is a writer, storyweaver, creative social-ecological narrative practitioner and permaculture designer based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is co-creator of StoryMoss and writes the Living Stories blog on Substack, exploring the Animate Earth through a mythopoetic and phenomenological storied lens. Trained in oral storytelling, Goethean observation, reflective social practice and trauma-informed resilience, she is an occasional performer and a deep, empathetic listener drawing on a background of more than 20 years in journalism, essentially listening to people's stories for a living. Working across more than 20 African countries, she has delved deeply into human and more-than-human narratives of food systems, women and youth inclusion, social-ecological resilience, cultural ecology, systems thinking, post-conflict development, higher education and climate change. She is a co-editor and contributing author of University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa: Community Action Research Platforms (Routledge, 2024) among many books, articles, case studies.