Elemental Writing

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It’s elemental, my dear writer. You don’t write alone. You write with the water and fire and earth and air, all of the elements within and around you. You write with the four-leggeds and winged ones, the ones with fins and tails and claws and fangs. You write with the moon, the clouds, and the dirt. In Elemental Writing, these are our guides, allies, companions.

There is no body like you, and there are so many bodies with you. Nothing is separate. Writing is an embodied experience, a flesh-blood-bone-muscle-sweaty devotion that cycles like the seasons. No part of the cycle is better than any other. Play is essential. The sacred is everywhere.

An Elemental Writing adventure is for you if:

you want your writing to come alive with sensory awareness.
as a writer, you understand or want to understand yourself as one voice amidst a chorus of many animate beings—plants, mountains, oceans, eagles, stone, starlings, desks, foxes.
you long for a deeper connection with yourself as part of the animate earth.
you thirst for something simple, essential, deep, and true.
you’re hungry for a new vital way to work through or into your writing project.
you need a course that acknowledges, engages and supports your embodied life as a writer, that puts your work and play as a writer back into your body rather than severing your imagination and your mind from the muscle and breath and blood and bone of you.
you know or want to know your stories as living beings.

Jen's soul is deep, and the work she brings forward to the world matches that depth. Her exercises are engaging and innovative, and the tenderness of her heart is matched by the fierceness of her intellect. If something in her call is speaking to you, don't hesitate.

Laraine Herring, Arizona

What's generally included in an Elemental Writing adventure:

Sessions, often on zoom, with a group of other writer-seekers, during which we’ll do our damnedest to stay aware that we’re not just hands on a keyboard or heads facing screens.
a sacred container, held for and with you, in which you can relax and soften into attending to your book or writing project in progress or allowing something new to emerge, or both.
shared simple ritual, embodiment practices, and a close encounter with a focal elemental companion.
communal writing time in each session, as well as prompts and tools to use for your writing and revising time outside of our time together.
the opportunity to share your work out loud, for generative feedback (no critique).
a unique writer's immersion in an embodied aspect of the animate earth, exploring the ways this connects with the art, craft, play, and work of writing. We won’t necessarily be writing about these aspects, but rather with them.
community with other writer-seekers. The people who show up for Elemental Writing adventures are curious, brilliant, open-hearted, wild & wondrous weirdos, like you.

I love the Elemental Writing sessions. I feel held and inspired, and my writing pours through me. Jen's skillful, humorous, inventive space-holding has sparked a renewal of my creative flow.

Emily, Colorado

By the end of an Elemental Writing adventure, you’ll have

a lively collection of lessons and prompts to take with you and use in all phases of writing: dreaming, generating, revising, shaping, resting.
deepened your relationship with your voice and the multitude of voices around you.
played, experimented, and pushed at the edges of the ways you understand and practice writing.
written each week, in community, fueled by community, witnessed and fed by generative feedback.
incorporated ritual and embodied awareness into a regular creative practice.
cultivated relationships with a wondrous group of other writer-seekers.