Indigenous Storyteller | Intuitive Strategist
Charlene ‘CJ’ SanJenko is an Indigenous storyteller, intuitive strategist for human growth & expansion, and an innovative founder and regenerative media visionary leading matriarchal tech + intentional AI. Charlene’s work as an artist of impact and narrative-futuring is guided by ancestral wisdom and a 25-year foundation in transformative leadership, embodied practice, and experiential design.

Narrative-futuring with CSJ
We are in a moment where narrative is shaping reality at scale.
And yet, storytelling is still treated as content rather than for its transformative power to shift, heal, and regenerate our future.
Future-Visioning Circles
Expand your perspective with a generational approach. Align who you are with where you’re going; not just what you say, but what is experienced as your living legacy
Intuitive Strategy Sessions
Orientation, an intuitive recalibration for those ready to walk differently. A three-part intuitive strategic experience designed to help you find your footing, clarify your priorities, and step into your next chapter with greater rhythm, trust, and coherence.
Innovation Narrative Design
An innovative future-focused narrative systems approach designed for internal-first and external coherence; clarity across teams, stakeholders, and audience
Transformative Integration
Advisory + guided integration; the story becomes the transformative process and the product. Intentional technology tools and progressive resources to support you and your team’s journey
Impact Storytelling and Regenerative Media
Impact storytelling + regenerative media creation designed to extend, embody, and amplify our work
New Narratives for New Pathways Forward
What emerges: clarity of identity, alignment across teams and leadership; and a narrative people can live into, not just hear
“Working with Charlene has reconnected me with my creativity. I have benefited from the approaches I have practiced with Charlene and cultivated by the way she holds space, in all aspects of my life – professional and personal – to create more connection and bring more intentionality to progress my vision rooted in my values.”
Ainaz Bozorgzadeh, P.Eng., M.A., IRP
professional engineer and project director
“I had a reading done by Char in January. Char is very intuitive, supportive, and such a kind advisor. The call was about two hours and there was no rush to get through it. Card by card, she unfolded what each month of the year would look like and drew out themes. It was interesting to get a glimpse of how the year would look and feel like.
What was most interesting was that fast forward 5 months later, I never would have imagined myself travelling this year. Her reading mentioned that in June, I would either go on a trip or enter a new relationship. Well a few weeks before June, it just so aligned that I booked a trip! And I had completely forgot about the reading at that time. I looked back on the chart we drew up together and saw how many themes were happening… Much love to Char!!”
Gabby
orientation intuitive strategy session client
WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING…
“I looked back on the chart we drew up together and saw how many themes were happening…
… Her reading mentioned that in June, I would either go on a trip or enter a new relationship.
A few weeks before June, it just so aligned that I booked a trip!”
~ Gabby, Orientation Intuitive Strategy session client
Book a call to explore if working together in this way is the right fit for you.
Watch, Read, Listen
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ORIENTATION, Meet Your Inner Creative
A Soul-Inspired Pre-Solstice Field Trip Friday, June 12 | Parksville, BC What if the next level of your life doesn’t begin with pushing harder, but with listening more deeply? We live in a world that constantly asks us to optimize. Move faster. Produce more. Perform better. Yet very little invites us to pause long enough…
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Well-Being: Our Natural State
For nearly a decade, I worked as a personal trainer and performance coach. That work became part of the foundation for everything I now call Transformation, by Design. Thousands of hours. Hands-on. Human-to-human. Supporting people through the deeply personal process of embodied change. One of the most powerful moments in that work was watching the…
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Practice, Preparedness, and the Power of a Soul-Satiating Win in the Wobble
We don’t talk enough about what it actually takes to move through transformation. Not the idea of it. Not the inspiration. But the lived experience of it. There’s the moment where you’ve made a decision. You’ve set a new direction. You’re stretching into a new level of your life, your leadership, your health, your capacity……
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Life Legacy of Ruth Sanjenko
In the days leading up to my mom’s transition, I told her over and over again: “I’m so proud of you. I’m so proud of you.” Ruth Sanjenko lived a simple, yet profoundly significant life over her 94 years. She was kind, gentle, and endlessly giving. Throughout her life, Ruth cared for more than 30…
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My Christmas Wish 2021 for ChangeMakers
“Our choices won’t change until we truly believe a more compelling story. And as much as we want to, the world won’t change until we ourselves become active participants in the expansion of consciousness and the restoration of healing of all things.” – Richard Rohr My Christmas wish in 2021 for ChangeMakers is that we…
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A Founder’s Place to Heal
When PowHERhouse launched in October 2013, I hadn’t yet reconnected with or confirmed my Indigenous heritage. I had no idea I was building a space of healing, transformation, growth, and readiness-generation for myself or other self-identified changemakers. And yet, as I reflect back on the past 8 years with foundational roots dating back to 2000,…

