A New Season: Pay Attention & Write Your Way
$30.00A daily notebook practice for Meditation • Readings • Writing • Self-Discovery
If you know The Artist’s Way, you know the power of putting pen to paper regularly for self-discovery and reflection.
This course begins with that idea and takes it in a new direction: Pay attention. Take notes. Write your way.
Your notebook becomes a place to slow down and note your own being, surroundings, nature, and season of life. A place to record a thought, a question, a memory, an image, a conversation, something beautiful, difficult, or unnamable. You don’t have to know what it all means. Allow questions. Follow the thread.
Each Monday evening, we’ll gather for a short guided meditation, a poem or piece of writing, and a generative prompt. Then we’ll write, to write, to note, to pay attention as an act of devotion to self, to life, to discovery.
The Monday gathering is the beginning. The notebook is the ongoing practice.
Throughout the week, you’ll be invited to keep paying attention and taking notes. You might write for five minutes or twenty. You might make a list, capture a sentence, describe a leaf, follow a memory, ask yourself a question, or simply write down what caught your attention that day.
Over time, something begins to happen. You start to notice patterns. New questions appear. A memory leads somewhere unexpected. A shape, a color or smell? Something you thought you knew begins to look different.
The notebook becomes a record of your attention and a way of learning and discovering what is emerging.
This is especially meaningful in a season of change, when so much can feel offputting, uncertain or full of growing pains. Rather than rushing to figure things out, our practice will be to stay curious and in the body.
We write our way and find we are on our own honest path.
What You’ll Gain
- Develop a daily notebook practice — create an easy, sustainable habit of noticing and writing.
- Pay closer attention to your own life — capture what’s helpful: thoughts, images, questions, memories, and moments
- Discover what is emerging — see what becomes visible when you give your full attention.
- Find your own way of writing — experiment with lists, fragments, observations, memories, questions, micro-memoirs, and whatever wants to come onto the page. Options: mixed media, sketching, collage, etc.
- A record of a season of change — a notebook of what you notice, wonder about, and discover along the way.
- Write in community — share the experience with a warm, intimate group of women who value creativity, attention, and self-discovery.
Testimonial:
“I wrote something this morning I’ve been putting off forever. It felt terrific. I’m positive I would not have been able to write this or seen what I did to create it without Jennifer’s class and guidance. She is a gift and fantastic at what she does.” – RH
Monday, September 14 • 7:00–8:00 PM • Zoom
Rate & Registration
Step 1 • $30 PayPal or credit card (includes a 3% cc fee) or Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/Jennifer-Schelter, Personal check, email [email protected] for mailing address
Step 2 • After making a payment, add your email to the list to receive the zoom link.