Writing Workshops

Jumpstart your creativity and meet yourSelf anew!

Journeys:

All adventures are for Writers and other Truth Seekers. The only requirements are a desire to discover what’s inside of you and a willingness to push your pen. In other words, you need not identify as a writer.

🤍 PULSE BEATS (10 weeks)

This is the original Write From Your Heart © (WFYH) introductory course. It is a ten week journey through the archives of your heart to discover primary themes in your life story. Using a unique writing method to subvert monkey-mind resistance, you will explore significant passages and core beliefs that reveal the stories that you carry. In addition to gaining self knowledge, you will also tap into your authentic writing voice and learn writing skills along the way.

• START DATE & TIME: next class TBD.
• PLACE: Zoom or In-person (depends on season and your location).
• MATERIALS: Journal and pen preferred or a laptop if necessary, and a timer.
• PRICE: $300
• TIME DEDICATION: An hour to 90 Minutes to meet once a week for ten weeks. Plus, as much time as you want to write on your own.

🤍 18 INCH EXPRESS (4 weeks)

Someone said that the longest journey is the eighteen inches from the head to the heart. In this quickie course, we will speed up the process through a blend of the WFYH method and the use of photographs. While time traveling, you will also cultivate character and scene development skills.

• DAY & TIME: next class TBD.
• PLACE: Zoom or In-person.
• MATERIALS: Journal and pen (or laptop) and a collection of photos.
• PRICE: $120
• TIME DEDICATION: Same as Phase 1 for 4 weeks.

🤍 CHAMBER MUSIC (4 months/16 weeks)

A four month advanced course devised to surface core personal narratives by plumbing the depths of your significant relationships. Each month (four weeks) has a theme, and each week has specific exercises or prompts. This is a deep dive facilitated by experience with the Write from Your Heart practice in which participants have already gained trust in the practice and the group process. However, previous course experience is preferred, but not necessary. 

• START DATE & TIME: TBD
• PLACE: Zoom or In-person (TBD)
• MATERIALS: Journal and pen or a laptop, and a collection of photos or momentos. And a timer.
• PRICE: $480
• TIME DEDICATION: Same as Phase 1 for 16 weeks.

🤍TRACING A VEIN (3 months/12 weeks)

Veins carry blood to the heart to be revitalized. In this course, you will concentrate on a specific theme – the pandemic of 2020 – and breathe into the stories you carry from that extraordinary time period. In addition to gaining a deeper understanding of your personal experience, this focus is designed to strengthen your memoir writing muscles.

• DAY & TIME: TBD
• PLACE: Zoom or In-person (TBD).
• MATERIALS: Journal and pen or a laptop, and a collection of photos or momentos. Plus a timer.
• PRICE: $360
• TIME DEDICATION: Same as Phase 1 for 12 weeks.

🤍 SPARKS & MURMURS (4, 6 , 7, 8, or 10 weeks)

These quickie courses are designed to excite ideas and to reveal the innocent or irregular songs of your hearts.

💙 Animal Lore (8 weeks): How have the magnificent creatures we share planet Earth with nourished, enlightened, and informed our lives? Let’s explore.

💙 Bit Players (6 weeks): These are character studies of folks who made minor appearances and spoke few lines in your life drama, but had an impact.

💙 Body Talk (8 weeks): What do you have to say about various parts of your body, and/or what does your body have to say to you? Only your pen knows for sure.

💙 Clothing Chronicles (4 weeks): Explore the things they wore that defined their character, and the things you wore to express yourself.

💙 Color Codes: A rainbow immersion and beyond (10 weeks), one color at a time. What does each hue signify to you?

💙 CoStars (6 weeks): Portraits of people you were close to or spent significant amounts of time with or were pivotal during important passages. 

💙 Firsts (6 weeks): Since first impressions are purported to be the strongest, let’s resurface the stories or beliefs that you might be harboring from certain initial experiences.

💙 Home Sweet Home (8 weeks): Review your relationship with the places (real & imagined) that you’ve inhabited.

💙 Money Myths (8 weeks): What narratives about money were modeled for you or passed on to you or were deduced by you from the world around you? Let’s explore.

💙 Oh The Places… (6 weeks): These are the travels, jaunts, treks, perambulations, trips – both experienced and imagined – that have expanded your world view and changed you somehow.

💙 Perchance to Dream (6 weeks): Revive the hopes, intentions, goals, aspirations, values, and plans that run through your bloodline and into your future.

💙 Seven Deadlies (7 weeks): Examine your experiences and beliefs about “sin” through character studies of little devils you’ve observed along your way. 

💙 Seven Virtues (7 weeks) As the supposed anecdote to the seven deadly sins, the virtues focus on the “better angels” in others or, perhaps, in yourself.

💙 Spirit (7 weeks): This is a pilgrimage with your pen to discover your relationship to that which is beyond form. What myths, rituals, or practices formed that relationship? Only your heart knows for sure.

💙 Work, Work, Work (8 weeks): Push your pen to uncover your experiences, attitudes, ethics, values, and beliefs about life’s labors. 

🤍 Cardiograms – monthly meet-ups for WFYH alumni

For folks who are well versed in the WFYH practice and want to keep their pens primed and the connection flowing.

🤍 To register or for additional information, please contact me 🤍