a Spacious and Capacious Writing container

Writing with Somatic Intelligence in Flow and on Country

This is not your average writing workshop.

There’s no critique, no workshopping, and no master-apprentice or teacher-student dynamic. Rooted in process-oriented theory and practice, I offer an experiential writing container that extends a holistic approach to the generation, development and ongoing vision of your work. You will come away from each weekly session with many inter-connected pieces of writing that will seed and take root in surprising ways, amply positioned to grow into clearly conceived larger writing projects if so desired. Sequential somatic techniques prepare the ground as you move in loosely guided fashion between flow states into writing that flows.

Each session allows for quiet, independent, free-form writing time alongside awareness through movement time spent on a mat or blanket on the floor, interspersed with guided prompts that encompass short, sensory-based awareness tasks, in nature, before returning to the page. From week 3 onwards, prompts are offered for writing that may continue between sessions on your own, but again, you get to choose. By week 4, you may start to notice deeper layers of connective tissue arising naturally from the tended ground of your practice and by week 5, your awareness of the structural capacities at work in your work are honed as the semiotics of the making begin to materialise in cogent and patterned ways.  

FloW:rite is for beginners as much as for seasoned practitioners.

This is a course designed for anyone wishing to explore, deepen or encounter sustainability and flow in any form of writing practice without angst, anxiety or blocks. Focusing on process, which inflects product, this sequential offering is for anyone who desires to write more effortlessly, more expressively and more efficiently, while entirely eschewing traditional workshop format and function. Layered with somatic awareness techniques, and process-oriented theories of deep listening to, on and in nature, including the nature of writing itself, this course is also designed for people who already have a larger project in development, or in mind, though this is not a requisite. Writing will get made. And the how of it will feel pleasurable, possible and potent.

If you can hold a pen and touch a surface, and you wish to grow in creaturely confidence and clarity as a writer, then this course is for you.

The writing that gets made in FloW:rite is not directly shared, or not at first, and not ever in its entirety, but guided feedback loops are provided in such a way that the writing itself begins to suggest its own craft-based skills acquisition.

The processes that invite a deepening awareness of the felt-body also invite a layered and finely considered approach to craft, and to various tools and techniques that dissolve blocks before they become entrenched or problematic. Tools, constraints, and containers are provided along the way, as is further reading, if desired.

What’s different about this sequential course in creative writing is that FLoW:rite combines structured somatic practices rooted in process-oriented theories with fresh and accessible approaches to play states and to listening with awareness to movement, guided by deep cultural respect and trust in First Peoples’ approaches to learning and doing in right relation to ground.

FLoW:rite has grown out of a prolonged and gentle inter-weaving of somatic embodiment techniques with writing prompts that prepare and hone listening capacities which spring from a deeper sense of living ground than is first available when writing only from the head.

I am currently seeking Expressions of Interest in this nuanced course of sequential writing workshops tailored to your requirements in seven and/or thirteen two-hour weekly segments, on location or online (as desired). Prices are reasonable and details will be provided upon request.

Each cycle of workshops is capped at seven to eleven participants (depending on location). I am currently gathering Expressions of Interest for a mid-May 2026 and mid-January 2027 intake, with rolling sequences anticipated at other intervals.

I welcome your curiosity.

If you would like to find out more, or to add your name to my waiting list, please reach out via email & let me know whether online or face-to-face suits you best. If on location, I am currently gathering numbers for future classes on Naarm (Melbourne) and on Djaara Country (Castlemaine and Greater Region, Central Victoria.)

sharilynelle09@gmail.com