For Educators: A Healing Approach to Writing Pedagogy
Writing instruction in schools has long been shaped by a narrow set of assumptions — about whose language is correct, whose stories belong on the page, and what counts as knowledge. For students from diverse linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, these assumptions have made writing a site of exclusion rather than expression.
The Embodied Method offers educators a different starting point.
Rather than beginning with skills, we begin with safety. Rather than beginning with correction, we begin with voice. Rather than asking students to conform to a single standard, we ask: what happens when students are invited to bring their whole selves — their bodies, their histories, their languages — to the act of writing?
This professional development is for educators who sense that something is missing from how writing is taught — and who are ready to explore a more humanising, culturally responsive, and pedagogically rigorous alternative.
To enquire about availability and pricing, contact me with the subject line: PD Enquiry.
Writing from the Body: An Academic Writing Retreat For HDR students and academics
Academic writing is one of the loneliest acts in professional life. You are expected to produce — consistently, prolifically, confidently — in a form that often feels at odds with why you entered your field in the first place. Many academics describe writing not as a practice they inhabit, but as a performance they dread.
This retreat begins with a different question. Not how do I write better — but what is stopping me from writing at all?
Over an immersive weekend, we slow down. We reconnect — with our bodies, with our material, and with the reasons we became researchers in the first place. Through guided writing, movement, and mindfulness practice, participants leave not just with strategies, but with a fundamentally different relationship to the act of writing itself.
This retreat is for you if:
— You are an HDR student or academic who has lost momentum or confidence
— You feel disconnected from your own voice in your scholarly work — You know what you want to say, but cannot seem to get it on the page — You are ready to approach writing differently — from the inside out
For information about the next retreat, contact me with the subject line: Writing Retreat
Come Home to Yourself: A Women's Retreat For women ready to return to themselves
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has no name. It is not burnout exactly — though it may look like that from the outside. It is the slow erosion of yourself that happens when you have been giving, caring, producing, and holding things together for so long that you have forgotten what it feels like to simply be.
This retreat begins where that exhaustion ends.
Over three nights in the Noosa Hinterland, a small group of women gather to slow down together — through gentle movement, creative writing, and the simple nourishment of shared meals, honest conversation, and time that belongs entirely to you.
The writing sessions at the heart of this retreat are not about skill or performance. They are a doorway — into memory, into the body, into what has been waiting to be said. We write to remember. We move to release. We gather by the fire to witness each other.
No writing experience needed. No yoga background required. Just you, as you are.
This retreat is for you if:
— You are a mother, a professional, a carer, or a giver who has lost the thread back to herself
— You have forgotten what it feels like to dream without guilt
— You are longing for stillness, but don't know how to find it alone
— You are ready to write what your body has been holding
For dates, pricing, and availability, visit the retreat page or contact me with the subject line: Come Home
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