REGISTRATION CLOSED
Want to get first notice for the next run? Add you name here!
“Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.”
— Natalie Goldberg
WRITING OFFERS US PATHWAYS…
Writing as a pathway to heal overwhelm.
Writing as a pathway to practice kind self-talk.
Writing as a pathway to move through and beyond burnout, finally.
Writing as a pathway out of feeling trapped under the heaviness of these times.
Writing as a pathway from playing small to rooting into your fullness without apology.
Writing as a pathway to being here for the mess of it all, and maybe even embracing it.
Writing as a pathway to interrogating previously unrecognized rules and conditions.
Writing as a pathway to that which is divine, mysterious, and eternal.
Writing as a pathway to knowing another’s true expression.
Writing as a pathway to greater boldness and tenderness.
Writing as a pathway to knowing your ancestors.
Writing as a pathway to nurture collective care.
Writing as a pathway to seeing miracles.
Writing as a pathway to honoring your rage.
Writing as a pathway to forgiveness on the deepest level.
Writing as a pathway to befriending our bodies after ghosting them for years.
Writing as a pathway home: to ourselves, to each other, and to this precious world.
GROWING A WRITING PRACTICE
IS THE WAY TO UNCOVER THE PATHWAYS
THAT ARE YOURS TO FOLLOW.
IN GROWING A WRITING PRACTICE, WE WILL…
Courtney Love’s journal
Explore ways to begin or enrich your writing practice with a solid, completely individual foundation that both honors the season of life that you are in and is adaptable enough to grow with you…
Meet all of the challenges that come along with writing with more ease. These include navigating resistance, the inner critic, breaking self-promises, and working with self-doubt…
Antonio Gramsci’s prison notebooks
Develop practices to nurture self-reliability and self-forgiveness—two key aspects to life and creativity…
Learn techniques for generating and organizing ideas and different types of writing…
WRITE with the help of gentle reflective prompts and what you write is only yours to see!
Growing a Writing Practice is a gentle space to reconnect with yourself and your inner landscape. May this be a place of creative recovery, momentum, and fulfillment.
BY THE END OF THE COURSE…
You will understand how writing can sustain you and how you can sustain your writing practice in consistent and joyful ways.
You will have expanded and elucidated your skills of introspection, intuitive creation, and self-compassion.
You will have shown up for your writing (and yourself) in a refreshed way—maybe even surprising yourself with your discipline!
You will have the skills and support necessary to sustain your writing practice and general creative momentum in a way that honors your desires, needs, and the reality of your life.
8 spots total.
This is a small cohort with high participation. We have cameras on and you will be expected to share and participate in the group. We don’t read writing aloud and there is no exchange of writing feedback (we’re focusing on growing a practice here, and that’s what the conversations center around). Please refer to the testimonials and the Conditions of Gathering for an idea of what sharing space together looks like.
Payment plans are available.
What people have shared about their experience in Regarding Dew:
“Maggy has created a space that is not only creative but filled with gentle curiosity and endless opportunities for new perspectives. I felt seen, heard, held, and encouraged all within an hour and a half. ”
“I took creative writing in high school about ten years ago and have wanted to come back to it since, and never had the courage. This was the first time in a decade...During every step of the process, I almost tapped out...but you’d clearly designed with such gentleness for all the introverts that it just infused the whole room with it. Your intro was so lovely, the flow was so calm, the people were all so wonderful, that I participated fully. I feel 2% more like a writer than I have in many years — I’m on cloud nine.”
“Your care in cultivating a gentle and safe space to explore writing with no pressure or outcome is truly appreciated. I felt inspired and free to simply pour out words on a page and they shaped themselves into something beautiful that I could never have constructed. My deepest thanks to you and I look forward to experiencing you again.”
IS THIS COURSE FOR ME?
If you have a history of picking up and dropping a writing practice (including journaling), especially if this process is filled with both resistance and a stubborn pull to write, this course is for you.
If you feel daunted, like you can’t keep up with life, overwhelmed and/or stagnant in your inner experience, this course is for you.
If you have notes on notes on notes and a tizzy of ideas floating around that never seem to make it to the page—or they do, but your systems are sideways—and you want creative systems that work for you and the nature of your mind, this course is for you.
If you have been sitting on a writing project for days, weeks, months, years, it’s eating away at your heart and you know you need outside support to do the damn thing, this course is for you.
If you have always longed to journal or explore creative writing, but never have because self-doubt has been running the show, this course is for you.
If you have already have a writing practice that could really use an oomph of revitalization and clarity this season, this course is for you.
Picasso’s poetry notes, which he started at 53.
If you know deep in your bones that you are your best self when you are regularly writing, Growing a Writing Practice is most definitely for you.
-
First: I get it. I really get it. This course is made with you in mind.
I’ve created this course for those of us who have gone at it alone and for far too long. While writing is ultimately an act of solitude, I’ve come to see that being in community around our personal creative practices is fundamental to cultivating a creative life.
In the course, we are going to cover this common experience and how to move through it as part of the learning.
PS: I will never promise to offer a fool-proof system for being an unwaveringly disciplined writer. Staying writing is about having practices that are resilient enough to return to when life inevitability steps in and throws our best plans off track. My aim is to support you in practicing writing as a central part of your life, and creating systems that allow for the return to writing—whether missing a day, a month, or a year—to be swift and restorative.
-
Here’s a rundown of what we won’t do…
We won’t explore how to tell a gripping story, how to go through different phases of editing, or even tips for vocabulary or character development, etc… our time together is focused on the process: the container that holds all of these neat techniques that are learned over time.
We won’t try to retrofit ‘ideal’ writing practice formulas into your life… you will instead self-design systems that work for you.
We won’t cover query letters or the current state of the publishing industry… you will instead have the tools and encouragement to get your words on the page even—and especially—when resistance and self-doubt chime.We won’t workshop your writing… but you will share your experiences around writing blocks and wins, giving words to the process that you’re in (and you will never be called on).
We won’t do mandatory homework between sessions… I will offer practices and you will make small doable commitments between the classes, always guided by your own wisdom. The hope is that these practices can not only get the creative gears turning in new ways, but also develop and deepen over time.
“You’ve cultivated an (in my experience) unmatched sense of safety here, a place that welcomes big emotions within clear and reasonable boundaries + humor when it feels right. I think that’s crucial for a class like this, where we’re exploring a lot of what holds us back. I’ve also really enjoyed the structure of the course, and collecting small takeaways (gems?!) that arrange into a larger mindset shift.”
“Many writing courses promise to make you a “better” writer. This course makes you a truer writer by helping you to connect to the essence of who you are and what you have to say.
Many of these programs teach you how to structure your sentences, format your pages, and make your writing an act of discipline. Maggy’s approach connects you to the deeper reasons why you write and invites you to consider how your writing practice can be an act of nourishment and self-care.
Many of the people who lead these courses stand before you as an “expert” or a “teacher” or a “guide.” Maggy will walk alongside you as a partner, offering gentle support and soulful prompts to connect to your own inner guidance as you navigate the path.
Many writing workshops claim that they are “life-changing.” Growing a Writing Practice is life-affirming. Participating in this course will change the way you relate to yourself and your writing, and it will empower you to subtly and lovingly change your own life.”
ABOUT MAGGY
I am a daily practitioner of creative vulnerability, a systems thinker, an artist, and a writer. I am the founder of the creative research studio Regarding Dew, a studio dedicated to supporting you in staying connected to yourself and creatively expressed in this world.
My approach is rooted in curiosity, aims for loving-kindness, honors deep knowledge and craft, and sees life as a creative practice in itself.
INCLUDED IN YOUR REGISTRATION
1) Finally Face the Page
If you love writing but have found yourself stuck in resistance, confusion, and self-doubt, this workshop is for you. If you want to explore writing as a place of more creative power and less shrinking, more lighthearted fun and less self-criticism, more liberating self-expression and less self-doubt... you're in the right place. Over 2 hours of guidance and prompts presented in three parts…
Part 1: The Art of Noticing
Part 2: Meeting the Stuck Places
Part 3: Honoring the Deepest Self
2) The Harvesting Guide
A digital guide that walks you through, step-by-step, how to have a harvesting practice: a methodical exploration of your experiences and insights through writing.
A harvesting practice guides you to get out of your own way.
A harvesting practice gives you the time to remember your wisdom, craft the declarations you most want to remember, and synchronize with the rhythm of your own being.
A harvesting practice is one powerful way to turn raw insight into tangible writing projects (and it’s great to do when you don’t feel like writing).
Through harvesting, you craft a repository of your own wisdom.
3) A PDF of creative writing and reflective writing prompts
Whenever you don’t know what to write, this is your guide.
Whenever you need to get your creative juices flowing, you can refer to this.
Whenever you want to spice up your creative process, pull a prompt like a wild card.
Whenever you want a perspective shift, yes you guessed it—open this up and see what happens.
Questions? Let’s see what I can do…
-
In addition to our weekly 90 minute sessions over five weeks, the time that you choose to dedicate to this topic is up to you. We will explore doable, small commitments through the week, but this could fall under a few minutes.
-
At this time, we are only having the calls live. This might change in future iterations, but for now, it will not be recorded beyond our collective sharing of the present moment (and whatever notes you want to take!) just like life offline. There are a few reasons behind this, but one is that this space is meant to feel safe to be vulnerable, sincere, and to grapple with ideas within. This becomes less so when we know that we are being filmed and that there is a record that exists across many computers.
-
If you want! I’ve offered this at two price tiers so that you can decide what kind of support you’d like. If you have any questions or want to talk about what private sessions are like, please email me at maggy@regardingdew.com
-
This class warmly welcomes those of us who don’t consider ourselves to be ‘writers’. If your experience in writing consists of groceries lists, to-do’s, and essays from years back as a student—you are warmly welcome. And maybe by the end of the course, you might just consider yourself a writer!
All sales are final. Please see terms and conditions for more information before purchasing.