Group gatherings
“The way we gather matters.” —Priya Parker
Invitations, Not Demands
You choose whether to follow the invitations for writing and movement, or adjust them to your own desires and needs. You choose whether to share publicly, or to stay off camera in your own chair.
Curated Resources
My Southern up-bringing taught me to give sweet gifts and party favors to my guests. For each session, I gather special curated resources just for you. I will share them with you after our gatherings.
Collective Energy
We are not alone. I believe our individual creative processes contribute to making the collective better and stronger and vice versa. To that end, these group gatherings are an opportunity to be in a supportive space.
Upcoming Group Gatherings
Explore and sign upYoga with a Pen: Monthly Reset
$25/session-Get 1st session free
Last Sunday of each month: 7-8 PM EST
In this 60 minute virtual group session on the last Sunday of each month, gentle chair yoga is woven in between reading short mentor texts and reflective, guided writing sequences. Leave this session clearer about what you want to celebrate and let go of from the previous month. Set intentions for the upcoming month around your creativity and your leadership practices. You are welcome to be either on or off camera, and sharing will be invited periodically, but is entirely optional. This is a very special practice that is inspired by an annual ritual shared with me by my poetry teacher Holly Wren Spaulding and that my dear friend Christina Brown and I do with each other every month.
The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: Fall Bibliotherapy Series
$150/Three 60 Minute Virtual Sessions
Sundays, Oct 5, Oct 19, Nov 2, 2025: 7-8 PM EST
This is not your neighborhood book club. In these three 60 minute virtual sessions, you will make your own leadership manifesto inspired by Karen Walrond’s The Lightmaker’s Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy and other companion texts from poets that echo of a manifesto. Leave this series inspired and clearer about what you need to bring more joy and creativity to your leadership. Sessions will be recorded if you can’t make it and special curated resource packets will be shared each week for your solo time in between sessions. Please purchase your own copy of the book (or borrow it from your library) to have by your side as a companion text throughout the series.
Life is Short-Autobiography as Haiku: Winter Writing Series
$150/Three 60 Minute Virtual Sessions
Sundays, Jan 4, Jan 18, Feb 1, 2025: 7-8 PM EST
Years ago as a high school English teacher in Northern Virginia and Washington, DC, my students and I would write Autobiography as Haiku after the 100 word autobiographies published in The Washington Post. Join me in writing and revising three different 100 word autobiographies inspired by ones previously published and by poets who have invented their own forms of this genre. Leave this series of sessions with insight into the different ways to tell your stories of leadership because we all know there is no one single story of our experiences as leaders. Sessions will be recorded if you can’t make it and special curated resource packets will be shared each week for your solo time between sessions.