Writing & Storycraft

This course takes you on a journey to meet your book, the book trapped inside you.

Discover what channeling is and isn't.

Find out how to tap into your creative muse on demand and allows words to come through you as opposed to from you.

This is a mindfully short course designed to help you forge a strong bond with your creative muse. You will also discover how to bond with your guides and even how to channel your future self. The course is primarily designed for writers, songwriters, or meditation guides but the techniques covered will help you in any artistic endeavour. It is distilled from a much larger body of work called Channeling for Authors that you will find here.

This is an easy to follow guide to unlocking your true creative potential. It takes you on a journey of the mind to help you banish your blocks forever and tap into an abundant flow of inspiration and creativity.

This book is for anyone who writes regularly, whether professionally or for pleasure. Nearly everyone will at some point have found themselves unable to get into their creative flow and achieve the literary results they are looking for. This book explains why we get stuck and how to get unblocked.

Note that although it was written primarily for authors, it can equally be used by artists, musicians and any one involved in any creative process.

This eight lesson home study course will teach you my unique SPICE tool that unlocks the secret to writing compelling stories based on your experiences. Each lesson provides a Limbering Up exercise and a Task to get you putting pen to paper. Be inspired, not only by the clear and practical instructions, but also by writings on those very same tasks created by my students. In addition to eight audio files you can also download a workbook that contains the same content, a SPICE chart for you to use and a video showing me teaching an introduction to my method in a classroom. This same method has been taught at the Watermill at Posara in Tuscany since 2012 in a residential retreat situation, in the Netherlands, Malaysia and online. Well over a 1000 students have learned its methods and many have gone on to publish their own memoirs.

Your memories, experiences, defining moments and crazy incidents are important – they show who you are and yet the task of writing a full-length memoir, is a mountain too high to climb. So, what if you could learn how to write about the things that have shaped you in the most compelling way? What if you could write them, not to be published, but as a legacy for your family? This is the core of the Life Story Jar course. Based on the concept of Kintsugi, a porcelain jar that has been broken, just as we can be broken by some of our experiences, and put back together again, just as we manage to pick ourselves up and start again. Kintsugi shows that pieces are mended with golden glue and rendered more precious. I believe that our stories represent the pieces and the sharing of those stories is the golden glue. This programme of 50 individual lessons will guide you towards writing your own pieces and building them into a unique and priceless collection. Each lesson begins with inspiration and practical tips and ends with an example of my own writing on the very same topic. So dive in and try it for yourself.

Join me as I facilitate inspiring and practical conversations with experts on a range of topics that will help you become better writers and authors. Learn about everthing from marketing your book to editing, story arcs and journalling. New episodes will be added monthly.