10.00 - 10.45 GMT
What does it mean to be a mindful writer and why should you bring mindfulness into your fiction writing practice?
Join Amanda Saint to discover how it can transform your relationship with your craft, yourself, others, and the world around you to enrich your experience of it all.
Amanda Saint is the founder of The Mindful Writer and an author and writing coach dedicated to helping writers find their voice and keep the love of writing alive, while using their stories to create positive human connection. She's the author of two novels, As If I Were A River (2016) and Remember Tomorrow (2019) and a novella-in-flash, Pressure Drop (2024). Find out more about her here.
11.00 - 12.00 GMT
In this session you'll hear from Claire about how she builds her Substack channels joyfully and sustainably, the power of networks and how to get creative and organised for your own Substack in a mindful way.
Claire Venus is an Engagement Consultant and Mentor. She lives on the Northumberland Coast with her family. Claire is passionate about life in the slow lane and building a business that takes care of you and excites you. She has been teaching us how to Sparkle on Substack since 2023.
12.00 - 13.00 GMT
13.00 - 14.30 GMT
How can we write about our lives truthfully without upsetting others? This is a lesson Ros has been learning over the last twenty years; including getting it wrong. Compassion is essential, but what if you don’t feel it? What if you still feel injured and angry? Mindful memoir moves us through our hurt so that the process of writing our memoir becomes truly healing for us without being injurious to others. Borrowing some key skills from novelists, this interactive workshop will show you how you can transform pain into insights through the alchemy of writing.
Ros Barber has been teaching creative and life writing for over 25 years. Her critically acclaimed novel The Marlowe Papers (2012) won the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, and was longlisted for the Women’s Fiction Prize. Her popular memoir-focused Substack is How to Evolve.
14.45 - 16.15
Words shape reality. Whether we’re writing to build a community, tell a story, or share our wisdom, the language we choose carries a power that extends beyond the page. This interactive workshop will share exercises and practices that help: bring your authentic voice to the page; analyse your writing for subconscious pitfalls that block your message; subliminally impact your readers through sound and letter repetitions. Bring a sample of your writing to work with, and come ready to explore, create, and discover the spellbinding power of your words!
TeriLeigh sees the world—and words—through a blend of neurological superpowers (synesthesia, hyperacusis, and aura perception). She approaches language as a multi-sensory adventure as for her, words aren’t just letters on a page; they are vibrant colours, resonant sounds, and profound energies that shape our lives.
She writes four Substack publications where she explores everything from mindful communication, relationships, and personal growth to the enchanting power of language and fostering authentic creative communities.
16.30-17.30 GMT
Join us for a discussion of the different ways these writers bring mindfulness to their writing practice.
A cultural anthropologist, writer, and longtime Zen meditation practitioner, Maia offers mindfulness and other reflective practices that cultivate compassion, awareness, and social transformation.
Don practices Buddhist mindfulness as a way of life. He’s the author of Shy Guy Meets the Buddha, where he shares his mindful reflections on life, love, work and nature.
During these times of uncertainty, societal upheaval, and global chaos, Diamond-Michael extends to you an invitation to drink deeply from a wellspring of Eastern philosophical wisdom.
Author, publisher and writing coach, Amanda uses mindfulness and creative writing to connect writers more deeply to themselves and their craft to bring more stories filled with compassion and messages of unity, peace and love to the world.
TeriLeigh experiences life through a blend of neurological superpowers (synesthesia, hyperacusis, and aura perception). In her writing she explores everything from mindful communication, relationships, and personal growth to the enchanting power of language and fostering authentic creative communities.
Ryan quit Fortune 500 sales to find real freedom. 6,935 meditations later, he advocates for self-acceptance over self-improvement. He writes powerful stories and lessons from daily life about love, forgiveness, and accepting ourselves just as we are.
You can get tickets for the whole day, for individual sessions or for recordings only.
Members of The Mindful Writer Community and/or The Mindful Writer Substack get a discounted rate.