Writing Coaching
What if you could significantly transform your relationship with your writing process in just one hour?
Imagine…
- finding the fulfillment you’ve been missing in your writing
- embracing the deep joy and freedom of connecting with your true voice and your profound story
- writing more creatively, breaking free of your comfort zone, societal expectations and self-judgment
- finding effective tools for entering, organizing or completing your manuscript
Challenges faced by women writers
Some of the biggest hurdles that women face when we begin to write are fear, getting started and a lack of structure.
Many of us also contend with:
- feeling blocked, frustrated or unfulfilled with our writing
- perfectionism
- being withheld as writers due to trauma
- second-guessing ourselves and over-editing
- a lack of confidence in our capacity to complete our manuscript
- a lack of belief in ourselves as writers
- concern over where to fit writing into our schedules
- puzzlement over how to build a regular writing practice
- imposter syndrome
- concern that we can’t tell our stories well enough
- confusion about how to break into a new genre
- frustration about how to write for ourselves after a day of writing for work
Can you imagine a life for yourself where you’re at peace with your writing? Where your words flow, your voice is strong and you’re excited about what you put on the page? A life where your writing fits snugly into the puzzle of your weekly schedule, your ideas are organized and you channel your story with joy and simplicity? Where you feel confident in your capacity to express your core truths fully, articulately and with pride?
If you’d like to rewire your relationship with your writing process, join me for a 60-minute Breakthrough Call or the Creative Unblocking Intensive!
Here are some of the offerings that fill these sessions:
- Counseling and healing for your writing issues and related life experiences in a safe, trauma-informed container: perfectionism, blocks, creative anxiety, procrastination et.
- Insights into what you can do to overcome blocks and other pragmatic and emotional issues that obstruct your creative flow
- Tools to get writing and stay writing
- Personalized writing prompts designed to help you access your story
- Brainstorming of ideas for your project
- Guidance and support with tapping into your inspiration
- Structural and organizational counseling: ideas about how to approach your writing and your project in a manner that supports all of you
- Accountability to a caring other
- Editorial feedback on selected pieces of your writing
- Co-writing i.e. writing together to support you to gain comfort with your writing
- Guided visualization and centring techniques
- Grounding + clearing of energy field
- Intuitive energy therapy (i.e. reiki and related modalities) for women who are open to these, to help understand and dissolve reasons for inhibitions
- Supported writing, as in therapeutic letters to your higher self or to those who you are in conflict with
Examples of coaching clients
- New writers + writers at work on their first book
- Mid-career and established writers
- Writers seeking to change genre/adapt their work to a new genre
- Memoirists
- Journalists
- Screenwriters
- Playwrights
- Poets
- Songwriters
Here’s how it all breaks down
Writing-coaching sessions provide a space for a woman to explore their questions and challenges with their writing processes.
After a check-in, if a woman is open, we might ground and send energy to her and to the session.
We then address her issues through a combination of editorial consulting, therapeutic dialogue + role-play.
Depending on the challenges, a session might involve writing to a personalized prompt; improvising a dialogue with a person, place or thing; organizing a writing schedule; gaining insight into a block or perfectionism; sequencing material for a manuscript; linking a limiting belief to personal history; discovering the opening paragraph for a chapter; digging into the essence of a new writing idea etc.
Women may book a single session or opt for the three-session Creative Unblocking Intensive bundle at a package rate, for a savings of $100 CA.
The investment:
Single sessions are 60 minutes and are available by Zoom and phone.
60-minute Breakthrough Calls are $200 CA + GST = $210 CA
The Creative Unblocking Intensive bundle of three sessions is $500 CA + GST = $525 CA, for a savings of $100 CA
Free Your Voice, 6-session package
This package is for committed writers who would like to move consistently toward their writing goals with continued support.
This package is for you if:
- you’re experiencing a block or have trauma around writing;
- you want to experiment with new genres;
- you’re starting a writing project and need support;
- you feel isolated with your writing;
- you feel like a writing imposter;
- you’re in search of your writing voice;
- you’re recovering from codependency;
- you feel muzzled by the effects of your upbringing and /or the patriarchal/colonial culture.
Investment: $1,000 CA + GST = $1,050 (savings of $200 CA when compared to the cost of individual sessions)
Benefits
- Super-shots of guidance, healing, techniques and inspiration to heal through trauma or blast through your blocks and gain valuable self-insight
- Inspiration and ideas as you begin to incorporate new genres
- Regular sessions provide you with an opportunity to build on the work
- Supportive editorial feedback as you grow and experiment
- A warm and motivating coach to hold you accountable as you reach for your writing dreams
Guarantee
If after our first 60-minute session, you are not 100 % confirmed that my writing coaching is for you, I will reimburse you the cost of a package less the fee for that first session. Please note that I require that clients who wish to be reimbursed alert me within 24 hours of the completion of the first 60-minute session.
Birth Your Babe, 12-session package
This focused, 12-session package is for writers who desire an intensive experience of growth and support as they write or complete a writing project.
This package is for you if you are ready to jump-start, or in the midst of, a writing project or book and want a guide to coach, support and lift you in your process!
Investment: $2,100 CA + GST = $2,205 (savings of $300 CA when compared to the purchase of individual sessions)
Benefits
- Sustained and intensive personal support, insight and intuitive energy work while you develop yourself as a writer and grow your project or manuscript
- Project-launching with attention to organizational input, agenda-setting, inspiration, individualized prompts, daily schedule, story plan, flow, process, discipline and space creation
- Counseling and energy work to address issues that arise, flow-enhancement/block breaking, motivation, inspiration
- Professional and regular editorial input to strengthen your writing and increase your capacity for impact with your words
- The opportunity to heal old issues through counseling and energy work over a sustained period, allowing you to deepen and expand your process
- Expanded inspiration and motivation to blast through your blocks and gain valuable self-insight
- The opportunity to delve deeply into your writing with the warm, solid and consistent encouragement of a coach at your side
Guarantee
If after our first 60-minute session, you are not 100 % confirmed that my writing coaching is for you, I will reimburse you the cost of a package less the fee for that first session. Please note that I require that clients who wish to be reimbursed alert me within 24 hours of the completion of the first 60-minute session.
What makes Marn’s writing-coaching unique?
Organic perspective: I offer my clients an organic perspective that approaches their writing from within the larger context of their lives. I believe that one’s writing is intrinsically connected with one’s personal evolution, and that to work on one we need to embrace the other.
Woman-centred: I specialize in the creative processes of women writers: their challenges, strengths, potentials and missions.
Energetically sensitive: With 30 years of experience as an energy-work therapist (think: reiki), I can hold powerful space for a woman and for the unfolding of a session. When women are open to it, I support my clients to ground themselves and apply my intuition and energy work to deepen a client’s experience of themself and their writing issues.
Editorial background: I bring 25 years of experience as a professional writer, editor and consultant and an educational and professional background as a journalist. I’m also the author of a book of poetry and a playwright who’s written and produced for the Toronto and Vancouver Fringe.
Spiritually-centred: For women who are writing channeled texts and/or spiritually-oriented manuscripts, my work can be especially suiting, as I embrace the intuitive and energetic processes in my coaching and in my life.
Trauma-informed: I’ve facilitated writing workshops for people in trauma over the course of 30 years. Since 2018, I’ve specialized in working with women, many of whom are in trauma recovery.
Here’s what my dear client, writer Zoey Hana Wren, had to say about her writing-coaching experience:
I have found coaching with Marn to be nothing short of spectacular. As a writing coach, she approaches the writer as a whole individual. She listens deeply for what is needed in the moment. This could look like anything from writing together, editing together, researching, brainstorming, to speaking feelings in the moment or moving through emotional or mental blocks. Being an energy healer and an established author herself, Marn brings warmth, care, experience and compassion to all my coaching sessions. I feel held personally, professionally and spiritually. This has helped me to seek publishing options and share from my truest creative heart. I feel fully confident in publishing my first full book this coming year and look forward to many more — with Marn’s support!
Guarantee
If after our first 60-minute session, you are not 100 % confirmed that my writing coaching is for you, I will reimburse you the cost of a package less the fee for that first session. Please note that I require that clients who wish to be reimbursed alert me within 24 hours of the completion of the first 60-minute session.
A note from Marn
Hello, I’m Marn, the creator of this Writing-Coaching program!
I have a dual background as a professional writer and energy work therapist. I worked as a writer, editor and consultant for 25 years, and as a journalist I’ve written for the CBC and Georgia Straight, among many other publications.
I’ve published an indie-award-winning poetry book and have written and produced for the Toronto and Vancouver Fringe Festivals.
I’ve been facilitating writing workshops over a 30-year period.
Writing coaching for women has been a natural evolution of my work as editorial consultant. As the focus of my workshops chiseled to being centred on women and healing, I began to experiment with integrating energy work with editorial consulting to serve women writers.
I discovered that the combination of my therapeutic toolkit and 30 years of experience as an energy-work practitioner with my understanding of writing and women’s experience provided regular and exciting opportunities for breakthroughs in my clients.
I have witnessed women move quickly and easily through blocks, identify and dismantle negative childhood programming and work through perfectionism and other creativity-stoppers to gain true confidence and flow with their writing processes.
Lately, my studies in improv theatre have inspired me to be more experimental with role-play and creative dialogue as a means to guide women to the centre of their stories.
You have questions?
I have answers!
No, you do not! Women in any stage of their writing process are invited to engage in writing coaching. My commitment is to work with women where they are are and support them to understand and connect with their creative writing processes. Often women are stuck in some way and not able to write. Sessions aim to support women to move to a place of flow.
During sessions, I often arrive at suggestions for between-session processing, journaling or writing exercises designed to support women toward their writing goals. These suggestions are always optional, and there is no time pressure. Typically, women are excited about these “assignments” and make them their own through their innovation.
The time-wait between sessions is individual depending on a woman’s needs. I find that women typically take two to three weeks between sessions, but some take longer, and in the case where there is an immediate project we are focused on and want to maintain flow, weekly sessions can be helpful to get something off the ground.
This will be different for each woman. I’ve seen shifts in women after one session and increasing shifts over a multi-month period.
Sessions are available weekdays from 12 – 6 pm PST
Please inquire for a session outside of these hours.