I think learning to express yourself with freedom and creativity helps in all areas of your life:  physical, energetic, emotional, mental..and the practical side of life is not separate from the rest of it. This is the basis sense that moves me to work with people in ‘The Alchemy of Writing’ workshops and courses.

For things such as job interviews and grant applications, the same thing applies:  very often, the job or the grant will go to the person with the most developed capacity to express in words, who they are, what they are about, what creative intentions and values they are wanting to manifest through their business or project.

That’s the interesting thing for me, about learning to use words and language in a good way--you may be very gifted and talented at what you do, but if you can’t express what your work is about, what the benefits are, and how they actually occur...then it will be much harder for you to find and connect with potential students, clients and anyone else who might appreciate and support you.

My emphasis in this approach to writing is really just sitting back and allowing the words to come from an open space..and then reading what you have written, receiving it, seeing how it strikes you, and then doing it again. The more you are willing to rest in the openness and clarity of who you are, before you complicate everything with your thinking, the freer and more creative your speaking and writing will be. .After a while, both the language and the place you are writing from become more and more simple, powerful, vivid and alive. Then you can really reach out and touch people--connect with a deep part of them through your words…

love
Shayla