Focus and Flow

A writing workshop for busy brains

Is your attention span feeling a little… wobbly?

You’re not alone. In this age of constant contact, it's easy to swing from thought to thought and task to task, missing out on the deep satisfaction of sinking into one thing and staying there.

In this workshop, we'll use writing to cultivate a flow state as a counterbalance to the distractions around us. Together we’ll step out of the noise and clear a space to hear our ideas, thoughts, and voices… And then create from there.

We designed this workshop based on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s beautiful research into “flow state”. We believe, as he did, that focus and flow can help us access our deepest and most important work.

Participants are welcome to join with established projects they want to move forward, with the urge to write something new, or with no idea what will happen when their fingers hit the keyboard.

Here’s how it works:

Each session will follow a predictable pattern, starting with a "brain dump" (not to share) to lovingly put what’s distracting us aside. Then we'll do a highly imaginative write, in order to detach from perfectionism.

From there, we'll flow into two longer writes, lightly facilitated, to allow participants to naturally tune into their own cues, and access the themes and ideas they want to express most.

We'll share some but not all of what we write, using the group's attention to motivate and guide us, but not slow us down.