Six-Week Writing Intensive—
The Container

This is an immersive, guided writing container designed for writers wanting to dive deeply into their voice and the craft of writing.

Over six weeks, you’ll work closely with me through weekly written exchanges (WhatsApp and email), creating a rhythm that keeps the focus on writing, not just planning, thinking, analysing or talking about it.

The program begins with an internal excavation and exploration of your personal autobiography — the experiences and turning points that shaped you — grounding this creative work in your unique story.

The process is designed for writers working with complex and existential material: lived experience, relational rupture, identity discovery, embodiment, grief, rage, sensuality, beauty, and meaning-making.

So, rather than forcing any premature narrative coherence, we begin by establishing the creative field in which the work can creatively, safely and honestly unfold.

Phase 1—
Excavation and Exploration

• Life Line mapping to open memory, pattern recognition, and thematic clarity

• Letter-writing and dialogical exercises to access voice without performance

• Structural sketches (working tables of contents, parts, thresholds) to locate the spine of the work before filling it in

We will protect the nervous system and creative life force by gently growing awareness around self-expectations, pacing, possibility, self-agency, and self-resourcing.

This mentorship emphasises both rigour and spaciousness: an intensive container that also allows for intuitive flow, flexibility, and deep reflection.

Phase 2—
Voice and Agency

As the work deepens, we shift from autobiographical recounting toward articulation of meaning:

• Distinguishing between the experiencing self and the narrating intelligence

• Allowing an emergent voice (the resourced adult, wisdom, inner agency) to speak

• Identifying core definitions, themes, and voice and tonal guiding principles

Writers are supported in moving from “what happened” to what was learned, named, and forged — without requiring confessional type writing.

Phase 3—
Structure as Containment

The exploration and development of your work’s structure is treated not as constraint, but as creative containment and self-care using form and tools such as:

• Contemplations, threshold texts and orienting passages that guide the written experience

• Sectional-level framing that clarifies the intention and purpose of expression

• Permission to work in fragments, passages, letters, or poetic forms

The emphasis is on artistic coherence over chronology, and integrity over completeness. 

Ongoing Support and Rhythm:

Throughout the intensive:

• Writing invitations and prompts are offered weekly

• Feedback focuses on conceptual clarity, structural coherence, and voice development

• The pace honors continuity without urgency, and depth without collapse

This process is especially well-suited for writers who:

• Are carrying material shaped by powerful life asymmetry or relational injury

• Want to write something true without exposing themselves to harm or judgement

• Are interested in hybrid forms: memoir/oracle, fragmentary narrative, embodied wisdom texts

• Need both creative freedom and intelligent containment

No writing experience is required.
Come as you are. All are welcome.

Note—Sovereignty and discernment are inseparable in life-based writing:

Sovereignty is the inner authority to belong to yourself — to know that your life, body, and story are not raw material for approval, redemption, or explanation.

Discernment is how that authority operates on the page.

When you write from sovereignty, you are no longer trying to justify your pain, prove your goodness, or earn the right to speak. The story is no longer a confession or a defense. It is an offering made from choice.

Discernment is what decides:

• what belongs on the page and what does not

• when a moment is ready to be written and when it is still too alive

• whether a scene serves truth or simply reopens a wound

• whether you are writing from experience or about it before it has integrated

In a book inspired by one’s life experiences, discernment is the difference between exposure and articulation.

Without sovereignty, writers often feel compelled to explain everything, name everyone, resolve every thread, or turn suffering into proof. The writing becomes extractive — toward the self — even when it is beautiful.

With sovereignty, discernment sets boundaries. It allows the writer to say:

• This truth can be spoken without reenacting harm.

• This insight is ripe; that one still needs time.

• This belongs to me; this belongs to the reader; this does not belong anywhere but silence.

Sovereignty gives you, the writer, permission to choose the form that protects your creative life force — memoir, oracle, fragments, essays, poems, letters, thresholds — rather than forcing the life into a genre that emotionally/physically costs too much.

In this way, discernment is sovereignty practiced sentence by sentence.

The book becomes not a record of what happened, but a living document shaped by what has been metabolized, claimed, and integrated.

That is when a life-inspired book stops asking to be believed, validated, adored, accepted — and starts carrying its own agency and authority.

The result may be an outline for a book, and something even more essential:

The result may be an outline for a book—and something even more essential: a clear direction, an authentic voice, and a structure strong enough to hold the writing, and the life, that comes next.

From this place, writing is no longer something you force. It becomes naturally charged, intuitively guided, and preciously alive—and authenticity becomes not just possible, but sustainable and a baseline.

Here, the work shifts. It becomes less about producing a project or an outcome on the page, and more about learning a new way to live your story.

Payment is non-transferable and non-refundable.

Thank you!