“Writing to Awaken is an opportunity to claim the life that you’ve been given, take ownership of your experience, and stop apologizing for having a point of view. Whenever you sit down to write, you are declaring to yourself and the world, ‘My life matters enough to remember.’ Having lived, you have the right to describe your existence in whatever way you choose.”
~Mark Matousek
Current Online Class
Finding Peace From Internal Conflict:
An Eight-Week Guided Writing Series
Thursdays at 5:00 p.m. Eastern
In this eight-session guided writing series, you’ll identify the contradictions, destructive stories and psychological enemies that are holding you back and blocking your well-being. You will learn to make peace with your saboteurs, and disarm the internal adversaries that interfere with your flourishing. When you explore transformative questions in writing, you come to see yourself more clearly, including the motives, intentions, and mental habits that perpetuate the hostilities within. By facing reality head-on with open eyes, you empower yourself to cut through confusion, clearing the way for a happier, balanced, and more free life.
Upcoming Online Classes
Writing to Naked:
Revealing the Truth in Memoir
A Six-Week Online Class
April 18 – May 30, 2022
In this six-week online class, you’ll focus on a vital aspect of memoir too often overlooked in workshops on personal narrative: the importance of exploring, first, then revealing the deeper emotional truth(s) of your memoir. Dorothy Allison advises us to, “Tell the scary story” — the authentic, unvarnished, transparent tale — if we hope to touch our readers.
Every memoir writer must do this excavation before they can do their story justice. This class will help you uncover hidden material, identify narrative blind spots, locate where you’re less than honest on the page, derive insight from your past, and create unforgettable memoir that does justice to your deep experience.
