Discover Your Story

A Mini LAB · 3 hours · Online

Some people arrive at a storytelling space already knowing their story. Most don’t. Most arrive carrying something — a moment, a period, a feeling that keeps returning — without quite knowing what it is yet, or whether it’s worth anything.

This LAB is for those people.

What this is

Discover Your Story is a short, guided LAB for people who sense they’re holding a story but can’t quite locate it yet.

Over three hours, we slow down and pay attention to lived moments that have stayed with you — for reasons you may not fully understand. Moments you’ve skipped over, rationalised, minimised. Moments you’ve never said out loud.

The work here is not about inventing meaning. It’s about noticing where meaning has already been insisting.

What to expect

The LAB moves at a deliberate pace. You’ll encounter:

Guided prompts that surface memories without forcing them
Quiet time to write, think, and notice what keeps returning
Simple narrative tools to see where a story begins, turns, and resists clarity
Listening — to others, and to yourself — without critique or fixing

Sharing is always optional. Silence is allowed. Uncertainty isn’t something to overcome here — it’s part of the process.

This is a Non-AI zone. We work with your memories and your voice — nothing else.

What you’ll leave with

People don’t leave with a polished story. They leave knowing which story is theirs to tell next — and why it matters.

A single lived moment that now feels impossible to ignore
A clearer sense of what your authentic voice sounds like
Language for an experience you’ve never fully articulated
Permission to take your own memory seriously
A sense of what makes a story true

Where this can go

Tall Tales has hosted over 100 live shows, featured over 200 stories, and published 20 of the best in a book by Rupa. That body of work began the same way this LAB does — with someone deciding their story was worth staying with.

If this LAB gives you that story, That One Story — our five-week LAB — is where you take it further. From discovery to a complete, shaped telling. This is the beginning of that, if you want it to be.

About the Facilitator

Akshay Gajria is a storyteller and writer based in London, where he is deeply wary of the city’s extremely stubborn pigeons but consoled by the pub on every corner and the friends he made studying an MA in Creative Writing.

He works professionally as a regional producer for The Moth in London, and has told live stories on stage with True Story London, The Moth, Spark Storytelling, So This Is What Happened, and Tall Tales. His story Reject was broadcast globally on The Moth Radio Hour. His essays and short fiction appear in print and online, and he interviews authors featured in the Mechanics Institute Review, Writers Cooperative, and others.

He has spent over a decade bringing people together around story — and believes, without reservation, that the most important stories are the ones we haven’t finished understanding yet.