Beginnings

In 2000, Charlotte Rogers Brown created Wonder Weavers, Inc., to offer a greater variety of services to those who wish to learn more about the process of exploring and crafting the stories of their lives. At Wonder Weavers we know:

"You are the hero of the stories of your life. In your stories you have the power to create, or re-create, the world any way you choose. You decide how the story will end. No matter what doubts you hold about your abilities as a writer, despite what anyone has ever told you, you have a wise and creative storyteller inside you — a storyteller who knows the answers to any questions you have about who you are and where you are going. Wonder Weavers can help you discover the power of telling your stories, and you experience the power of living them."

Before starting Wonder Weavers, Inc., Charlotte Rogers Brown won numerous awards from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists for her work as a news reporter and feature writer. In the mid-1990s, she co-authored the book, A Weaving of Wonder: Fables to Summon Inner Wisdom, published in 1995 by LuraMedia—a book that earned endorsements from, among others, actress/author Patty Duke and Louise Wisechild, author of The Obsidian Mirror and The Mother I Carry.

Charlotte, along with co-author and therapist Karolyne Rogers Ph.D., began facilitating a series of workshops based on their book, designed to guide participants through a creative process of integrating their experiences—past and present—and to access the wealth of wisdom and power within those experiences.

Possibilities Abound

Wonder Weavers now offers a variety of creative workshops, as well as writing coaching and speaking engagements for schools, organizations and writers’ groups. In May 2003, Wonder Weavers, Inc. published its first book, In Our Shoes: Seven Women Reveal Their Soles, a book given birth through the process introduced in A Weaving of Wonder. As Charlotte writes in the Introduction:

…a vision came to me during my morning meditation. The message was clear: Call together a group of women and invite each one to tell her story—to reflect upon her past, present and future so that others, both women and men, might know what it is to walk in her shoes. I could see the book in my mind, complete with photographs of shoes, each pair decorated to reflect the journey of the past and the vision of the future, with a pair of socks illustrating the here and now. Ignited with a passion I hadn’t felt in some time, I literally sprang from the couch and ran for the phone. I didn’t have to think about who to invite into this project; I just knew. Intuition gave me their names. I simply dialed their numbers.

A stage presentation of In Our Shoes was performed in Phoenix, followed two weeks later by the launching of the book at the Book Expo 2003 in Los Angeles, May 29-June 1. In Our Shoes adds a host of other opportunities for people interested in starting their own “shoe groups” or simply wish to read and/or hear the stories shared by Charlotte and the other “Shoe Women.”