"Java Bere is quite possibly my favourite person on Instagram, she has a certain way of capturing the magic of story and place, so when she shared about Tell the Story of Your Home, I couldn’t wait to sign up and delve in."
Carissa Tanton, Illustrator and Artist
"It's like 'The Artist's Way', but for your home."
Leo Taylor, Artist
A self-paced online workshop and method for mining your own stories and life, to tell the story of your home
Someone asked me a while ago, ‘How do you create your specific magic in your home, and where would I even begin to recreate it?’.
This question made me think long and hard about what I do, about how I create the ‘magic’ in our home, and about how much of it is instinct, a natural extension of my heart, mind and soul.
With this in mind, I started writing this very workshop, with the purpose of guiding folk to make their own, very specific to them, magic.
This is not about making your home look like mine, this is about making your home look like YOU.
This is not about creating an insta-perfect home. This is about making a house a home full of love, character and LIFE.
Your life. Past, present and future.
Ready to dive straight in?
This workshop is about:
- How to make your home look and feel like the safest, most welcoming and inspiring version of your internal world.
- How to create an environment that feels like it reflects your favourite parts of yourself and the parts you aspire to.
- How to reflect your history, passions, dreams and personal story in your environment.
- How to tell your past, and present in the four walls of your home.
- How telling your story through your environment can help open up every aspect of your life: your relationship with yourself and others, creativity and hopes and dreams.
- How the home can be an anchor for making our inner self feel stronger, more grounded, inspired. Vastly beyond what we may think it could be.
- How expressing ourselves in our truest form, without barriers, external expectations or pretences will empower us.
- A living, ever-evolving, ever-growing tapestry of YOU.
An holistic guide to finding your story through exploration and play.
Work at your own pace:
Choose from 3 options to best suit your needs:
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- Standalone, off-the-shelf: You get access to the Tell the Story of Your Home workbook, carefully designed to guide you during the creative process of finding and telling your story, using creative prompts, techniques for discovering your own style and tools for implementing it.
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- Standalone, plus 60min 1-1 consultation*: As above, plus you get 60mins of one-to-one with me to discuss your set-up, what you would like to achieve, what to focus on and to reflect on completion.
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- Standalone, plus 90min 1-1 consultation**: As above, plus you get an extra 30mins of one-to-one with me, to further support your journey through the workshop and to reflect on your achievements.
- Whichever option you choose, the workbook is downloadable in both text and audio formats, giving you full access for life!
*/** further information can be found on the workshop ordering page.
"If you're looking for a unique home course, which is a mix of self-enquiry and practical tips - this is for you!"
Previous course participant
What YOU will accomplish:
- Work through a guide of straightforward & effective styling techniques to make your story flourish.
- A fresh perspective on your space and how to use it.
- The confidence to externalise your internal world, history and personality into your home space.
- The confidence to experiment and be playful in your home.
- A clarity to identify the SPARK that triggers the creativity and light in your life.
- A refreshed energy for your home throughout the seasons.
- A deeper sense of self.
- A method for mining your own stories and life, to tell the story of your home.
- A fun, creative, experience that will encourage you to delve deep into everything that you love.
Ready to discover your story?
Java Bere - Workshop Creator
Java is an artist, stylist, writer and collector of stories.
With a Celtic heritage, she was born in London and grew up between England, Scotland, France and Spain, where she often assisted her mother, a professional artist and interior designer, before returning to the UK as a young adult to study acting at the Arden School of Theatre, Manchester, from where she graduated with a First Class Honours Degree.
In 2017 Java started establishing her practice as a home stylist, writer and illustrator.
In 2021, she created ‘On the Irregular’, a podcast where she speaks to women from varied backgrounds about their irregular creative journeys.
In 2022 she was awarded funding from Arts Council England to produce and host a live panel event with an audience, discussing the conversations that are shared on the podcast.
She is an experienced workshop facilitator, having facilitated styling, theatre, visual art and creative workshops.
Her more recent work centres on the concept of home, ritual and celebration of the everyday. She is currently exhibiting a selection of her illustration work in Coin, Hebden Bridge.
As a writer, Java has had pieces published in several publications, including Heiter magazine, Table magazine and 91 Magazine, and avidly shares her thoughts and ideas to her Substack following of monthly subscribers.
Previous to her life as an artist and writer, Java worked as an actor in theatre, as well as spending several years working as an agent in theatre and TV.
With a Celtic heritage, she was born in London and grew up between England, Scotland, France and Spain, where she often assisted her mother, a professional artist and interior designer, before returning to the UK as a young adult to study acting at the Arden School of Theatre, Manchester, from where she graduated with a First Class Honours Degree.
In 2017 Java started establishing her practice as a home stylist, writer and illustrator.
In 2021, she created ‘On the Irregular’, a podcast where she speaks to women from varied backgrounds about their irregular creative journeys.
In 2022 she was awarded funding from Arts Council England to produce and host a live panel event with an audience, discussing the conversations that are shared on the podcast.
She is an experienced workshop facilitator, having facilitated styling, theatre, visual art and creative workshops.
Her more recent work centres on the concept of home, ritual and celebration of the everyday. She is currently exhibiting a selection of her illustration work in Coin, Hebden Bridge.
As a writer, Java has had pieces published in several publications, including Heiter magazine, Table magazine and 91 Magazine, and avidly shares her thoughts and ideas to her Substack following of monthly subscribers.
Previous to her life as an artist and writer, Java worked as an actor in theatre, as well as spending several years working as an agent in theatre and TV.
Let Java guide you through Tell the Story of Your Home
What others have said about this workshop:
"I feel like you have changed my life!"
Charlotte
"A coming home to yourself. I loved it and I’ll continue to draw inspiration from it for a long time to come. Thank you so much Java."
Issie
"I’m halfway through Tell the Story of Your Home and it’s just what I needed to give focus and energy to my creativity and spaces. Small steps - but it all adds up."
Leo
"It is a key to unlocking yourself as a resource to develop your home to be as unique as you are."
Rachel
"Thank you for creating such an incredible workshop! Five days in and it’s already a special part of my day."
Kelly
"I didn’t expect it to get so deeply to the heart of things, defo had a little cry and it feels like it's really uncovering what home actually means and needs to be. This is a wonderful thing you have created Java."
Carissa