Break through your writing barriers

This specialised coaching course guides writers on a deep personal journey into their writing, blocks, past experiences and future hopes

Students examine the creative process, explore aspects of themselves that may have been forgotten, and learn how to convert old writing baggage into future motivation.

Whether students are just starting out or extremely experienced, they will find this course to be reflective, informative, and reinvigorating. This course assists students to further define or even completely re-define their direction as a writer.

Students will learn a number of practical tools and techniques to help them on their writing journey well into the future. A must-do for all serious writers.

*Artist's Way at Work [After the publication of The Artists' Way, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan, with Catherine Allen, wrote the best-seller The Artists' Way at Work: a twelve-week programme to help people work more creatively and effectively. Creativity coach Sally Mazak is a qualified AWAW facilitator.]

Course details:
- One Intro and eight Coaching Sessions
- Duration: Course must be completed within 8 and 10 weeks. This course requires regular submissions in a defined time-frame and is an important facet of the course
- Start date: At any time; applications all year round via our website

Student assignments:
Each session will require you to complete varying numbers of exercises, question responses and actions

Admission requirements:
- Basic writing skills essential
- Computer skills, e-mail and Internet access required
- No previous tertiary qualification required

Course Curriculum
Introduction
What is creativity?
Creativity coaching
How creativity coaching works
Not psychotherapy
Your coach
Distinguished creativity teachers
What to expect
Being a beginner
What this course doesn't do
Quotes are like 'eau de parfum'
A tip for your weekly responses

Session 1 - Dabblers and doers
Courage
Why do you want to write?
Using your voice
The courageous writer
Three exercises, two detailed questions and one action

Session 2 - What blocks?
Pleased to meet you Blocks
Anthropology Part 1
Stalling methods
Your writing atmosphere
Filling the form
Four exercises, one detailed question and two actions

Session 3 - When I'm all grown up
Who am I now?
Free-flow writing
Anthropology Part 2
Jealousy mapping
Possibilities
Three exercises, two detailed questions and two actions

Session 4 - Making it work for you
Performance anxiety
Adverse self-talk
Managing creative anxiety
Incantations and antidotes
Four exercises, three detailed questions and two actions

Session 5 - Getting into it
A solid step in the right direction
Something in the air - atmosphere and environment
A writing practice
Planning to plan
A writing practice - for now
Three exercises, four questions

Session 6 - Seeing things differently
Creativity - a two-part recipe
What is creativity?
I don't have a creative bone in my body
A more common understanding of creativity
The creative personality
The process of creating - the creative response
The nine steps of the creative response - in detail
Great ideas when you're not in the mood
The birth of ideas
Netting ideas
One exercise, four detailed questions and one action

Session 7 - Opposite inspirations
Fuel for writing
Anger as a map
Determination
Doing it for yourself
Four exercises, three questions and one action

Session 8 - Make way, I'm coming through!
Consolidation
Know thyself
Anthropology 3
Inner mentor/Your wise-self
Keeping it fresh
Final tips from your coach
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How does the course work?

The course consists of one introduction and eight coaching sessions. Detailed notes covering the content of each coaching session are e-mailed to students.
At the end of each session, students will be required to complete a number of tasks. In total, the course includes 25 Exercises, 21 questions and 10 actions, all of which count towards completion of the course.
Once the set tasks have been completed, and e-mailed to the coach, feedback will be sent to the student and the session will be considered complete. The next session will then be e-mailed to the student.
Exceptions may be made for students who would like to try Skype feedback. It will be available at specific times only, so availability is limited.

Conditions of the course:
This is a specialised intensive personal development course for writers. It is unique to our college.
Students will receive an SA Writers' College Certificate upon successful completion of the course, provided they meet the following conditions:
Students must have completed all tasks
The course must have been completed within 8-10 weeks from commencement date. Only 2x one week extensions are allowed. *Special consideration will be given to students requiring fortnightly sessions. This must be arranged prior to commencement and will be assessed on an individual basis.
Students are expected to complete all sessions in consecutive order.

Minimum estimated time commitment:

There is no specific research required for this course. Any research can be done using Google or a similar search engine. Each session must be finished within the week (or fortnight if this has been agreed to at the start).
After studying the session notes, the exercises should take between one and three hours to complete plus daily personal writing

Venues

Date: 02 July 2013
Location: Online correspondence course, Countrywide
Cost: R 5295.00

Date: 23 July 2013
Location: Online correspondence course, Countrywide
Cost: R 5295.00

Date: 30 July 2013
Location: Online correspondence course, Countrywide
Cost: R 5295.00

Date: 06 August 2013
Location: Online correspondence course, Countrywide
Cost: R 5295.00

Date: 20 August 2013
Location: Online correspondence course, Countrywide
Cost: R 5295.00

Date: 27 August 2013
Location: Online correspondence course, Countrywide
Cost: R 5295.00

Contact: Koos Turenhout
Company name: SA Writers' College
Email address