Carol Burbank founded Storyweaving, LLC in 2004 to combine the different threads of her work into one focus: supporting sustainable, creative, personal and professional development. Based in years of research into healthy individual and cultural change, Storyweaving combines her experience as a teacher/professor, journalist and literary writer, and leadership development specialist. She writes a monthly column on spirituality and leadership for Science of Mind Magazine, and teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a student of traditional Hawaiian culture, and facilitates the Accokeek Women’s Writing Group, which met online during the pandemic lockdown and has met since 2012. She lives in Fort Washington and shares her woodland home near the river with two cats and annual moonflower gardens, and offers (pet free!) space for personal retreats and workshops through the Storyweaving Retreat Center.

Publications

Carol Burbank’s play, Shelter, was a finalist at the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwright’s Institute and produced in Baltimore, MD. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and journals such as Rolling Stone, and A Room of One’s Own. For 20 years, she served as a theater critic for the Chicago Reader and other weekly and monthly arts publications. She is a regular columnist on spirituality and leadership for Science of Mind Magazine, and business development for On Purpose Woman. In 2021, with her mother, she co-authored a children’s book to help little ones weather Covid restrictions, Stay-at-Home Bears, telling the story of a typical day of three teddy bear siblings home together.

Her research on leadership and education has appeared in multiple anthologies and academic journals, including Women and Leadership, Global Women’s Leadership, The Transforming Leader, Integral Leadership Review, Theorizing Women and Leadership, and Indigenous Issues and Culture. She was the primary researcher and author of a groundbreaking literature review about inclusion for students with disabilities, published March, 2019 and updated in August of 2021 through the National Alliance and Pipeline for Equity (NAPE). In October, 2021, her more detailed literature review summarizing groundbreaking theories and practice for equity development for all underrepresented groups was published as the backbone of NAPE’s new mission.

She has also codified her research into story and archetype as forces to support healthy change with a self-help system that builds confidence, vision, and creativity. Her first workbook, Storyweaving Playbook One: Answer the Call to Adventure was published in 2015. Her workbook, Raise the Bar on Your Writing: A Guide for Well-Rounded Mastery of Writing Craft is scheduled for publication in 2025.