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Women's Online Writing Circle
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Muse on Your 2024
Every gathering is a retreat...
Intimate Creative Online Offering!
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Join the magical intimacy of a women's circle. (12 spaces only).
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Gather for live writing and sharing in an impromptu retreat circle.
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Join one, a couple or every circle - just pre-register and drop-in!
DECEMBER 2023 DATES & TIMES
with Aimee Hansen
2.5 Hour Live Sessions
Two chances: Weds eve & Sat morn options
Each week we'll unfold the theme in different ways.
WEEK 1: Wed, Dec 6th 6:30 - 9:00pm EST OR Sat, Dec 9th 10:30am-1:00pm EST
WEEK 2: Wed, Dec 13th 6:30-9:00pm EST OR Sat, Dec 16th 10:30am-1:00pm EST
WEEK 3: Wed, Dec 20th 6:30-9:00pm EST OR Sat, Dec 23rd 10:30am-1:00pm EST
WEEK 4: Weds, Dec 27th EST OR Sat, Dec 30th 10:30am-1:00pm EST
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2.5 hours live writing women's circle drop-in opportunity each week.
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Each week will be different to unfold the theme - featuring different prompts to inspire reflection, musing and revelation. Live writing happens in the circle.
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Register via e-mail and send payment in advance to secure your space.
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Each week, registration will close at 12 participants only.
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December launch special: $30 per circle or $100 to reserve your space in advance for all four of the weekly drop-in circles on same day
This online writing circle is for you if:
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you crave the time and space to journal but can't seem to make it happen alone. (We will do it, together!)
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you want to experience the connection and magic of a circle of women.
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you want to feel more flexible, allowing, present and expansive in your moment.
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you seek some creative inspiration in exploring and reflecting about your life.
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you want an online gathering without pre-reading or homework, just immersion in the moment.
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No experience needed.
December 2023 Theme:
Musing on A Year of Moments
We often move from one year to the next, stacking our resolutions on top of each other, broken or whole. When we focus exclusively on what we still need to do, to have or to become, we reinforce and perpetuate lack within our lives and cast it into our future. The ghost of “still didn’t” chases us into January, whether deflating our spirits or blowing fierce wind into our eager sails.
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When we go from one year to another without pausing to take in its yield, we forget that we stand on the shoulders of all the “me’s” we have grown through to become who we are in this moment, and on the shoulders of all who have helped us along the way.
We ignore that life teaches us about who we are if we listen. If we don’t stop to acknowledge what this little leg of the journey has brought us, then we deny ourselves the awareness and appreciation of learning what we’re capable of—of being, doing, feeling, learning, changing or accepting.
Don’t tell me what fell off your list, what you regret or what dreams you’ve yet to realize. Tell me what you put your heart and attention to and what you found was within you and around you, already. - Aimee Hansen
This writing circle will invite you to:
- Find grace and gratitude for the quality of your experiences in the last year.
- Unearth new perceptions and narratives to expand your possibilities.
- Help to acknowledge and recognize your growth and evolution.
- Reframe towards what is and has been instead of what isn't and has not.
- Encounter beauty within the blur and chaos of a year well-lived. (I promise).
- Go into 2024 having opened your current narrative and found new ones.
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This space will also encourage you to:
- Play freely with your creativity and bring creativity into reflective journaling.
- Fire up the muse through live prompts, and override the inner critic.
- Get used to sharing your raw, initial expression and hold witness for others.
- Be seen and heard and held in safe space with a group of women.
- Honor and be witnessed for your embodied and lived experience.
- Break from your routine to nurture yourself, connection and creativity.
- Access your writing channel and attune your awareness.
- Share in rich interaction in a casual pop-up circle of women.
The drop-in retreat will not offer:
- Technical, craft-based or critical review of your writing.
- Advice on writing as a craft, such as structure, voice or editing.
- Pre-reading or takeaway materials: it's an in-the-moment experience.
A women's circle to build connection and creativity.
Across many circles, Storyteller Within has cultivated a gathering space for women for over eight years - to share their experiences, expand their perspectives, reconnect with their inner voices, face their fears, hone their intuition, voice their raw words and move more boldly into their own sacred expression - while holding witness and space for each other to do the same. In this circle, writing is a channel to allow vulnerability, reveal insight and enchant new possibilities.
Women's Circle = Connection
The live and dynamic retreat drop-in circle is designed to hold the nurturing dynamic of the women's circle. We will get to know more than each other's names and faces. Each participant will be seen and heard and have the open invitation to share in each session. We are probably going to laugh and cry some of the time. I invite you to see how quickly magic forms when women gather.
Dedicated Time & Space For Reflection and Inner Connection
Like a retreat, all you need to do each session is to show up, and as you are, for live participation in the writing circle. No pre-work. No powerpoint slides. No pre-recorded videos. No worksheets.
Just show up and participate in the casual circles. You will receive creative guidance, and together we will get quiet and write to prompts in "live time" (eg. 10-20 minutes) - exploring various themes through creative prompts for personal reflection and insights.
Each session will offer fresh angles and inspiration and you will walk away with new and refreshed perspective and insights to open into possibilities.
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Sometimes, carving out time for writing or connecting within is the hardest part - we will do it together and live. Be inspired and write and share (optional and recommended) within the live group.
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Each circle will be capped at only twelve women to allow each to be seen and heard, just as if we were gathered for a retreat. This is a circle for you to both witness and be witnessed in sharing yourself through writing. It is not a general sharing circle, an advice circle, or a circle of critical feedback.
How to register for an online circle:
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Click on the button below to request a reserved space* (12 per week).
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You will receive a confirmation of availability and payment details - $30 per drop in or $100 for booking all at once.
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Send your payment (while your space is held for 48 hours to receive it).
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You will receive a confirmation of your reservation and Zoom call details.
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*If your email app doesn't launch on your phone, please just email me with the dates you are requesting a space in: aimee@thestorytellerwithin.com
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(This process will be streamlined in the future, but I am eager to share this theme with you in December!) xoxoxo Aimee
Wednesday evenings
6:30pm - 9:00pm EST
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Saturday mornings
10:30am - 1:00pm EST
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About the facilitator:
Aimee Hansen is the Creator of Storyteller Within women's retreats, recommended by Lonely Planet and included several years in a row among 'Incredible Writing Retreats to Attend' by The Write Life.
Aimee stumbled into this soul work when she was compelled to offer women's circle retreats in early 2015. The retreats offer an embodied experience with women where the writing is alive and immediate, becomes threaded between us, and where we together brave the conversations with self that we often yearn to have.
To date, she has facilitated across 28 live events, dozens of online circles during lockdown with the Storyteller Within sisterhood, and holds over 950 hours of experience in intuitively reconnecting women with their voices and reclaiming their expression. This transformational gathering has led many women, by their own account, to allow and embrace more of who they are.
In addition to facilitating, Aimee works as a freelance writer in leadership and inclusion, has co-authored a guided retreat journal with Marianne Richmond to be published in 2024, and is currently editing and developing other passionprojects.
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Aimee views her role in the circle as communal, reflective and catalytic. Her desire is for you to feel connected, open, seen, heard, expressive and expansive. It's your voice that this space is created for. Her role is to inspire you into allowing more of yourself and sharing more of your voice, in all the languages you do.