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SUMMARY:Systems for Writers
DESCRIPTION:A one-day workshop on time management\, organization\, and goal setting for writers. This workshop is for writers of all genres who struggle to balance writing with busy lives or to stay organized with their time and their projects. Participants should bring their laptops and any current agenda/calendar systems so that these can be used during the workshop. \n\n\n\nThe workshop will begin with self-reflection prompts and exercises to help participants create “goal pyramids” that clarify and prioritize long-term writing and publication goals. We’ll also work to define clear goals for participants’ current projects and break these into small\, realistic action steps. We’ll explore various organizational and time-management tools in both digital and analog formats\, including timers\, spreadsheets\, calendars\, bullet journals\, and project notebooks. Participants will learn practical strategies to boost creativity\, stay on track with writing projects\, and reduce stress\, procrastination\, and perfectionism. Essentially\, this workshop will provide support\, tools\, and strategies to help participants gain more control over their time and their projects. \n\n\n\nRebecca Morris is a Montreal writer\, editor\, and teacher whose debut novel Other Maps was released in September 2024 with Linda Leith Publishing. Rebecca’s short stories have won the Malahat Review Open Season Award for Fiction and the Humber Literary Review’s Emerging Writers Fiction contest\, earned Honourable Mention in Prairie Fire’s Short Fiction contest and been long-listed in Room Magazine‘s fiction contest. A Banff alumna and a reader for the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize\, Rebecca teaches writing workshops at the QWF and the Thomas More Institute as well as schools and communities across Montreal.
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LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Embodied Writing with Maya Khamala
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome! Limited spots. \n\n\n\n~Writing\, breathwork\, meditation & optional sharing circle~ \n\n\n\nWriting happens in the body. The more you engage your senses\, the stronger your language. Whatever emotions you spill onto the page are deeply rooted—at the cellular level. \n\n\n\nWe contort ourselves into painfully disembodied shapes in order to summon words\, and yet the body remains our deepest source of truth. What if we gave in to our bodies instead? What words might surface? What untapped potential might emerge? \n\n\n\nGet out of your head and into your body so you can write with vital presence. Our bodies hold so many stories that long to be told. Breathing life into those stories has the potential to be a deeply empowering and healing act. \n\n\n\nIf you’ve never done breathwork or meditated before\, it really doesn’t matter. If you’re not a writer\, that’s ok too. This workshop is for writers wanting to enhance or expand their practice\, non-writers interested in exploring their potential\, and anyone who feels called to investigate the relationship between body and language. \n\n\n\nOur practice will interweave: \n\n\n\n\nKundalini breathwork\n\n\n\nStretches & movement\n\n\n\nCreative writing prompts & exercises\n\n\n\nMeditation\n\n\n\nAn optional sharing & discussion circle\n\n\n\nHomemade chai & a sweet treat\n\n\n\n\nWhat to bring: \n\n\n\nYour journal\, a pen\, comfy clothes & an open mind. \n\n\n\nWhat to know: \n\n\n\nPens & paper will be available\, as will floor mats/blocks/cushions if needed. Seating options will include: sofas\, chairs\, floor mats\, etc. There will be space to move around and shift positions as needed. \n\n\n\nAbout the facilitator: \n\n\n\nMaya Khamala is a lifelong writer of many stripes. From poetry to grassroots journalism to creative nonfiction\, word is her bond. She has collaborated with visual artists at a loss for words\, and has worked as a freelance copywriter and editor for close to a decade. She has a shiny little MA in Creative Writing to list among her credentials\, and is an emerging novelist to boot. Maya has an extensive background in feminist\, anti-racist\, climate justice and Indigenous solidarity movements—work that has deeply informed the way she wields words. Aside from being a writer\, she is also a Kundalini Yoga teacher offering regular Montreal classes in NDG and the Plateau. She got into Kundalini as a way of healing from childhood trauma and its many lifelong manifestations in her body\, as well as to counteract being a writer who sometimes forgets to step away from the keyboard…and simply breathe. \n\n\n\nCost: $85 ($75 early bird rate for first 5 people)Book here: linktr.ee/heartfire.kundalini
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LOCATION:Studio 414\, 10 Avenue des Pins West #414\, Montreal
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