Lunch + Learns

Professional development and team-building for your business or organization

Marn Norwich offers corporate Lunch + Learns online or onsite. These events support participants to empower and connect with themselves and others by ramping their creative or intuitive processes, increasing their creative capacity and growing the level of inter-connectivity between team members.

Inquire about how we can tailor workshops to meet the needs of your business.

Option 1: The Corporate Communicator

Connect with your team in a fun and creative hour of play and experimentation
Amplify your team’s capacity for communication, emotional intelligence, empathy and mindfulness

The Corporate Communicator is a cauldron for creative play and wellness! A short guided-visualization supports participants to focus on body, breath and the present tense. From this place of expanded awareness, team members write in response to prompts on themes related to empowerment. Optional share-circles provide opportunities for participants to read from their work or discuss their process. Listeners reflect on where they were moved and inspired by the work (it is not a critique).

In this celebration of the creative process, participants connect deeply with themselves and others. Sessions may be tailored to the thematic needs of your organization. Add-ons include a 10-minute slide-show talk or a short theme-based poetry reading by the presenter.

The scientifically proven benefits of expressive writing include: reduction in anxiety, depression and blood pressure; and improved cognitive function, sleep, social connection and immunity.

Sample themes include: mindfulness, compassion, self-worth, resilience, surrender, transcendence, curiosity, power, trust, love, fun, intuition, courage, peace, ancestry, boundaries and initiation.

For organizations that want more, this workshop is available as a two-hour, half-day or four-part series.

Photo by Ethan Robertson on Unsplash

Option 2: The Corporate Intuitive

Learn how to access your intuition to support yourself and others
Enjoy a playful approach that emphasizes learning over accuracy
Develop the skills necessary for quick and profound decision-making and out-of-the-ballpark innovation

This hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the intuitive process and how it can be utilized. A short guided-visualization supports participants to focus on body, breath and the present tense. After a brief introduction, team members have the opportunity to support each other with intuitive insight. Participants may then reflect on their sense of the meaning and accuracy of the input they received. A playful and experimental approach supports beginners and emphasizes learning over accuracy. This is a lively hour that always provides a lot of fun, hope and connection!

For organizations that want more, this workshop is available as a two-hour, half-day or four-part series.

Pricing

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To discuss how a Lunch + learn might work for your company, please contact Marn Norwich.

Marn Norwich: Facilitator Bio

Marn Norwich is a workshop facilitator with 30 years of experience. She has a background as a writer, editor and energy-work therapist. Her writing workshops integrate writing with themes of wellness and empowerment. Her intuitive development classes provide opportunities for participants to access and apply their intuition in support of self and others.

Marn is the founder of Vancouver Women’s Writing Courses, where she facilitates online and onsite workshops and coaches writers.

Her journalism has appeared in national publications and has focused on women’s issues and complementary health. Her poetry book, Wildflowers at my doorstep, earned the Silver Independent Book Publisher Award for poetry.

In 2021, Marn wrote and produced the feminist and LGBTIQA+ musical comedy “A Coveted Wife of East Van”.

In 2023, she served as an Artist in Residence for the City of Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada.

In 2024, Marn was nominated for a YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Metro Vancouver, Canada, in the category of Arts, Culture + Design.

Marn is available for workshops, talks, on the subject of writing and healing and Lunch + Learns.

An atmosphere of warmth, intelligence, and acceptance

“In 2011, I participated in a writing workshop led by Marn Norwich, a gifted writer and teacher. Marn structured the workshop around themes found in her book of poetry, Wildflowers at My Doorstep. An inventive instructor who is as attuned to her audience as she is to her material, she used these themes to invite reflection and as beginning points for writing exercises. In an atmosphere of warmth, intelligence, and acceptance, participants wrote and shared their work. Without hesitation I recommend Marn as a choice writing workshop instructor.”

Morgan Chojnacki

Writer

A gentle and powerful space

“In her workshops, Marn Norwich creates a safe and supportive environment for participants of all writing abilities to explore their creativity. Her facilitation style is empowering and inclusive. I came away from this workshop with the courage to share my writing, and a greater sense of inspiration for my creative work. Marn has a gift for inspiring the creative process and helping participants delve deeper into their writing. Her many years of experience as a facilitator and a writer were evident in the way she held a gentle and powerful space for us as a group.”

Catherine Wilcox

M.Ed., Management Consultant

Her power as facilitator led to many participants’ breakthroughs

“Marn Norwich honours both the creative and recovery processes in her work as a facilitator. She first creates a safe space among the group. As they warm to the experience, she provides insight into the creative process so that participants begin to trust and experiment with the tool of writing. As her classes progress, she offers powerful literary examples that touch on key themes in recovery and healing. She is wise in how she paces classes so participants who opt to do so may gradually delve deeper and comfortably into their personal histories. Marn has mastered the ability to hold a safe space when participants choose to share raw and painful experiences. She offers them a way to emotionally process the negative into heartfelt poems and prose and provides warm feedback that demonstrates the power in sharing their truths. Over the two years that I co-facilitated writing classes with Marn at Pacifica Treatment Centre, her quiet power as a facilitator led to many participants’ personal breakthroughs.”

Lindsay G. Kwan

Editor, Art Coordinator & Director, Room Magazine

Wealth of knowledge, spirit and empathy

“I have taught alongside Marn Norwich for the past seven years, primarily in recovery centres. Marn not only brings a wealth of knowledge to her classes but a spirit and empathy which allows room for people to express their innermost voices without hesitation. Marn creates this wonderful space consistently. Her dedication to her work shows in her preparation, her interaction and her follow-up. I recommend Marn's classes for anyone wanting to add an extra tool to their healing kit.”

Dr. Bonnie Nish

Executive Director, Pandora's Collective, Vancouver, BC

Acute and empathetic, experienced and talented

“I am an experienced journalist who has a soon-to-be published memoir. But I was stuck—the proverbial writer’s block. With Marn’s professional guidance, I was able to be at one with my Mac again. Over the course of several coaching sessions, I wrote an extremely personal piece with Marn as my editor. She was acute and empathetic, experienced and talented—in fact, nothing short of brilliant. I ended up with a piece so polished that I submitted it to a national newspaper. I am confident it will be published. Thank you, Marn.”

Rosemary Keevil

Journalist, Vancouver, BC

Lunch + Learns

Option 1: The Corporate Communicator

Option 2: The Corporate Intuitive

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Marn Norwich: Facilitator Bio

Acute and empathetic, experienced and talented

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