Writing Courses On Offer This Summer
Steering and inspiring budding memoir-writers to help find their unique voice
I am excited to offer a 6-week memoir-writing course in small groups via video link from Tuscany. If you have ever wanted to write your story, I can help you to turn your experiences into a compelling memoir. Over the weeks, I will mentor a small group personally through interactive classes, helping to release creativity and shape a personal narrative that brings your life experiences to the world. Weekly two-hour sessions will incorporate relaxation practices to help us find our inspiration, tutoring in a small group, personal mentoring for your story, and on-going feedback to help shape your narrative.
Classes will take place via the Zoom conference calling app, in a group of maximum 5 people to ensure plenty of personal attention and the possibility of building a strong cooperative relationship with fellow students through sharing and critiquing each other’s work. We will be ‘in the room’ together so we can interact rather than solo study to a video or course manual.
Memoir-writing course
Mentoring small groups to realise their creative potential
I am now offering this course for the winter starting on Sunday 2nd June 2024. The course fee of £400 (and currency equivalents) will go directly to funding my new writing residence and retreat centre, which is now ready to receive budding writers who wish to take some time out of life to immerse themselves in nature to concentrate on writing. I will be on hand next door for guidance and mentoring and will be offering a sliding scale of involvement, teaching and holistic services to the budding writers in the Residence. Please contact me to enrol or for more information about either the next course or upcoming Residence opportunities.
“Everyone has a story to tell but how do you turn that into a book?”
My approach
I believe that any creative endeavour is an encounter between our human selves and the divine.
As Elizabeth Gilbert has said, creativity is ’a relationship between human beings and the mystery of inspiration’ and I believe that anybody can unlock, build and strengthen this relationship.
My approach draws on my experience as a writer, but also as a yoga teacher, Reiki healer and bodyworker, using these tools to bring us into a relaxed state in which we can enter ‘the flow’, combining this with practical writing exercises to develop consistency so we can tether our inspiration to the discipline required to see a long-form piece of work through all its different stages of writing, editing and redrafting until it is ready to go out into the world. I will guide you through every stage of the process and offer a one-to-one tutorial offered as part of the course which you can take up at any time, even after the course has ended.
Watch a workshop
Watch a memoir and diary-writing workshop I taught online at the beginning of the lockdown in Italy in the spring of 2020 (specifically to help people navigate this extraordinary time).
Colognole COUntry Wine Estate will be our home for my first Bella Figura Writing Retreat in October 2023
Follow-on Courses available to Alumni of the Memoir-Writing Course
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TUSCANY WRITING RESIDENCE APPLICATION
Mentorship
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Feedback from past students
‘How wonderful it has been to have the opportunity for personal growth at a time when our day-to-day has felt so much smaller. Thank you’ – Ruth from London
‘I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying this class! You have a very special way about you, it shows in how you run the class. You have such positive energy’ – Barbara from New York
‘Thank you so much everyone and especially Kamin. What a lovely group. I really look forward to my gatherings with you all’ – Sally from the UK
‘Thank as always! You are such a wonderful inspiration and I love you to bits!’ – Emma from Scotland