Spacious and Capacious Writing Workshops

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. No set theme; no set head-based way.

Instead, what I offer is a semi-ritualised experiential writing container that offers a holistic approach to writing as-it-is-being-made. You will come away from each weekly session with many small, inter-connected, mosaic-sized pieces of writing that will begin to grow of their own volition, and in the weekly intervals between, into clearly conceived larger writing projects. From Week 3 onwards, small prompts are offered for writing that can continue between sessions, but again, you get to choose.

This course is also designed for people who already have a larger project they are working on, though this is not a requisite. Writing will get made.

And writing (in whichever genre, in no genre, and at whatever stage) will be made to feel easy and pleasurable and possible, because if you can hold a pen and touch a surface, it already is.

The writing that gets made in this course is not directly shared, or not at first, and not ever in full, but the process that invites awareness of the felt-body also invites a layered and finely considered approach to craft, and to various tools and techniques that dissolve blocks before they even become problematic. If something arises that is perceived as problematic or as a block, the design of this course offers ways of paying attention to habits that may have led to blocks in the past, and that may be inviting new neural pathways of choice without leading to heightened triggers or pain. This course begins with and returns the body, over and over, to nervous system relaxation, rest, respite and regulation. Curiosity and delight, even if latent to begin with, will certainly accrue.

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 flow and 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 that spring from a deeper sense of living ground than is first available when writing only from the head.

Sessions begin on the floor (on a mat or blanket or cushion as needed) or on the ground, and move in gentle ways to the page and back to the floor or ground. Short periods of writing are interspersed with periods of awareness through movement or other practices that are deeply enmeshed in slowness, in spatial relatedness to place, and in honing semiotic access to the sensing, feeling, imagining body, alongside, and with, the listening capacities of the thinking self.

The analytic is not left behind: it is supported in tasks befitting the writing process, but it is also supported in sensitively choosing when to sit quietly and when to let go.

The multi-layered approach I am developing in FLoW:rite takes its cues from many fields, including Madelyn Kent’s work with Sense Writing , while acknowledging that this work has been seeded and nurtured on and by the spirited reciprocity of Djaara Country.

I acknowledge the wisdom and nurture of the Elders of this place, past, present and ongoing, and I acknowledge the mystery of being guided by Bunjil without fully understanding how.

As an offering, my hope is that this course will support and inspire the seeding of surprising and nourishing directions in your own writing practice, with ease and pleasure and discovery, as deeper patterns and finer-grained, organic connections and problem-solving awarenesses emerge over the seven or thirteen segments right through to process oriented completion, or next-stage development.

If any of this broad-brush-stroked description intrigues or appeals to you, I welcome your curiosity — please reach out.

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 EOIs for a mid-May 2026 and mid-January 2027 intake, with rolling sequences anticipated at other intervals.

I invite EOIs or requests for further information: sharilynelle09@gmail.com