Spiritual Direction for Writers Course: How to Develop a Writing Practice that Nourishes Your Mind, Body, and Soul
Are you feeling blocked in your writing? It’s not surprising given the expectations of what a writer’s life should look like. So many unnecessary rules and messages affect your relationship with yourself and your writing.
You may feel stuck and disconnected from your writing. You may believe you’re not a “real writer.” Writing practices should not be one-size-fits-all. Every writer is different. Every writing practice should be too.
This course will help you have greater integration between your writing life and the rest of your life. Because writing shouldn’t deplete you. It should energize you. You could be writing more often, improving your writing skills, and feeling nourished by your writing practice, rather than depleted.
You can’t make art if your soul is empty and dry. It’s time to try a different approach. You need a writing practice that is tailored to your life and your needs.
Spiritual Direction for Writers Course Description
This course has three short video lessons. Each lesson has three practical ways to apply what you learn from the video plus suggestions for what you can do today, tomorrow, this week, and this month to move closer to the writing life you want, the life you want.
This course a great introduction to Spiritual Direction for Writers and covers several themes that appear again and again during Charlotte’s Spiritual Direction for Writers one-on-one sessions, guided retreats, and group spiritual direction for writers sessions.
Charlotte Donlon helps her readers and clients notice how they belong to themselves, others, God, and the world. Charlotte is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder of Spiritual Direction for Writers™ and Parenting with Art™. She is also the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University where she studied creative nonfiction with Paula Huston and Lauren F. Winner. She holds a certificate in spiritual direction from Selah Center for Spiritual Formation. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. She’s currently writing her next book, Spiritual Direction for Writers, which will be published by Eerdmans in 2024. To receive weekly writing tips and the latest updates, subscribe below.