SOUL WRITING SESSIONS

Writing from the Soul is an online writing circle for women.

How it works:

We start with a prompt:

This could be a poem, a word or a phrase or an inspirational speech we start with by reading out loud.

Each person grabs a phrase or that word and chooses their first prompt.

We set a timer for 8 minutes …

and write without stopping. You don't worry about grammar, spelling or punctuation.

We read outloud:

We go around the group and each women reads out loud. The listeners are quiet simply holding space for a women to hear her own voice in the writing. There's no commenting, critiquing or even, "that was beautiful" at the end. We simply stay silent and then let the next women in the group read outloud.

We catch a line from each reading:

Borrowed from the amazing Marcella Allison, as we listen to each woman read out loud we jot down a line or a phrase that resonates with us.

We close with Read Backs:

again, borrowed from Marcella Allison, like a women's chorus we close reading out all the lines we've caught out loud for 3 minutes. You hear the symphony of voices sharing our collective, wisdom, struggles, humor and pain.