Stay At Home Writing Retreat

A weekend of writing + connecting from home sweet home

Is it time to come back to your beautiful creative life?

These days it’s really hard to make room to write. Our attention spans are short, our nerves are buzzing, and it can feel like everything needs to be learned again. And yet, writing has many, many gifts for us in challenging times.

This is a lovingly curated weekend experience designed to guide you back to your own voice. The focus will be on gently waking up our creativity and exploring what it wants to say now. Who am I in this time of crisis? What stories want to emerge? What’s the first step?

We use writing to be in the moment and to escape from it, to wander the roads that our words want to walk down, to linger in nostalgia and possibility, to find the joy. The weekend will be full of ease and productivity as we listen for the gentle hum of something that wants to happen… And then we let it.

Here’s how it works:

All of our sessions will be on Zoom. First we’ll gather on a Friday evening for 2-hours to get to know one another, set some ground rules, and sink into the shared journey of reflection and creativity ahead. We’ll do some writing, sharing, and then head off for a good night’s sleep.

On Saturday morning we’ll return for a mix of creativity-waking exercises designed to get new thoughts flowing, and energies swirling. Then we’ll gently land into the big question — what wants to be written now? What new project or idea is ready to emerge?

In the afternoon we’ll move into longer writes, ending with a 90-minute silent period in the late afternoon to sit in the shared thrum of creativity, and to sink into the creative direction that you’ve settled into. We’ll take plenty of screen breaks throughout the day, and then in the evening we’ll fully step back, continuing to write offline in our own spaces.

We’ll meet again on Sunday to share what we created for deep and thoughtful feedback. From there we’ll create writing prompts and plans for forward creative motion, and we’ll end the retreat with some reflective writing about the road ahead.

There will be 10 participants and 2 facilitators, so sharing will happen in cozy groups of 5.

You’ll also receive a thick, padded envelope in your mailbox full of little treats to create a cozy, creative sanctuary to hold your writing.