Writing practices for healing and honing the power of your voice.

Steal away for this immersive creative writing workshop designed to bypass your inner critic and engage different parts of your brain.

Led by award-winning poet and author Amy Leigh Wicks, PhD, this course will help you explore your memories and shape your experiences into powerful stories.

Through guided writing exercises, you'll gain fresh perspectives, build narrative structure, and advance your storytelling skills with momentum and purpose.

Taking this course empowers you to transform your experiences into art, fostering personal growth and emotional well-being through the power of writing poetry.

On This Writing Retreat You Will:

• Strengthen Mind-Body Connection: Engage pen-to-paper handwriting techniques proven to deepen the mind-body connection.
• Release Your Inner Artist: see what emerges with these innovative writing prompts used to bypass your inner critic and unlock your artistic potential.
• Experience Encouragement Toward Deep Reflection: Sort through challenging memories in a secure and supportive environment.
• Identify Your Most Iconic Stories: Discern and narrate your life’s most compelling and meaningful stories. Take a moment for yourself to truly celebrate significant moments and milestones in your life.
• Learn Practical Literary Techniques: Gain exposure to literary tools and methods that are easy to repeat for any type of writing.
• Relax the Analytical Brain: Use timed exercises to let go of time-tracking and engage fully with your creative process.
• Find Your Authentic Voice: Explore different methods to tell your story and discover what works best for you.
• Engage Deeply with Your Emotions: Connect with your emotions and mold meaning from both the difficult and wonderful times in your life. Use poetry as a tool to process and heal from emotional pain and heartache.
• Gain Self-Knowledge: See yourself in a new, deep, and meaningful way through your writing as you express gratitude, love, awe, and affection more freely.

Your Story: An Immersive Workshop

Created and Led by Dr. Amy Leigh Wicks

 Entering the Wild

• Relinquishing control to begin the process
• Check-ins, handwriting, silence, and sharing
• Establishing rhythms to chart the course
• Learning to be trustworthy and learning to trust

Losing the Forest for the Trees

• Start small and get specific
• Single memory focus
• Carving a scene out

Ascending the Rocky Path

• Establishing your pace
• Linking memories
• Stopping to catch your breath
• Finding your guts when you need them

Looking Out from the High Place

• Feasting on your life
• Surveying your story from above it
• Remembering the taste of a peach

Descending into the Valley

• Navigating the fog of traumatic memory
• Entering the dark
• Noticing the flicker of a torch

Emerging into the Clearing

• Putting the pieces together
• Editing like a lover
• Bathing in the river