Creative Writing Courses for brain power, heart’s desire, and emotional healing
In January 2018 I set-up a school for creative writing and artistic rehabilitation. It has since empowered over 200 people in the journey of sharing their personal narratives into books, projects, scripts, journals, and creative businesses.
How do I find the right words to share my story with the world?
How do I embody my experiences into writing that moves, AND sells?
These are the questions I often hear from my future students, writers in the making, themselves.
The same questions prompted me to embody a life-long search for meaning into a powerhouse that merges the most of several worlds: imagination, structure, self-accountability, and vulnerability.
A loving, empathetic, and solution-focused Emotional Bootcamp
My courses are aimed to help anyone translate their vision into a story, a novel, a movie script, a personal website, a business avatar, and even a love letter to a deeply missed loved one.
Food for Your Brain and Heart
My classes blend humanitarian and scientific approaches to personal and business development and bridge the gap between physical and digital realms by helping teams and individuals connect with the world through powerful storytelling.
The methods I work with are the byproduct of years (and tears, and facing fears) of research in writing, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, transactional analysis, immersive sociological and journalistic experiments as well as artistic rehabilitation, Julia Cameron’s systemic training. The techniques I teach deal a lot with the unconscious mind and offer very practical tools which are ready-to-use, regardless if one wants to write better or to start a writing/art project for themselves/for the public.
Narrate Yourself with Confidence
Many writing programs I attended were focusing too much on method and reenactment. I prefer to encourage my students to think for themselves, nurture their inner voice, and whittle down their anxiety when faced with their own inner critic, rather than the literary critic.
Immediately start applying what you learn, from the next day and up to a very long time
I work with authors, journalists, entrepreneurs, script writers, bloggers, artists, politicians, photographers and designers to carve and structure their personal vision into projects with collective impact. Their common denominator is a world of ideas that now has the resource management to become tangible.
Individual Mentoring
Embody Through Storytelling
Break the dry spell of writer’s block and unchain your creativity with the artistic rehabilitation workshop.
This class is based on the blueprint program I created – a thorough mix of methods stemming from artistic rehabilitation, journaling, integrative psychology, meditation and creative writing techniques. This class is aimed at anyone who wants to gain self-confidence in harnessing their creative talents and skills, via techniques that promote self-awareness and self-assessment. No previous writing or journalism experience is required.
Benefits:
● Enhanced mental and emotional awareness and response to one’s own writing practice
● Immediate, functional capacity to apply what one has learned
● The ability to formulate and frame your dream project, which can be anything from writing a short story, starting a digital project, penning a love letter, gaining self-confidence in manifesting your immediate and seemingly impossible goals, loving yourself more through writing therapy, or ditching the inner critic.
● The ability to hold oneself accountable for their creative goals
● The ability to steadily apply structure to any creative pursuit and move towards it.
How it works:
A 1:1 session is 120 minutes long, including a 10 minutes break and a 10 minutes feedback round.
In the first hour we focus on an important theme for you and briefly deconstruct your specific situation, while in the second part of the class we work directly with dedicated tools for your specific goal. Here, we discover tactics and structural methods that you will be able to apply straight away in your creative work. Together, we design a plan to help you achieve your goal.
You receive the Artist’s Handbook for Attesting Time and Space, the manual I designed, which includes the techniques you studied, as well as a working program to help you achieve the results you need throughout the next seven weeks. There is homework included, yes!
Your Investment
1:1 sessions
€120 for a one-time session (120 minutes), including handbook, plan and course materials
€80 for following sessions (50 minutes)
The Science of Storytelling
Train to outline and draft your first or next book/script/essay.
This class is aimed at starting writers and content creators who want to exercise their creative muscle, as well as to learn step-by-step writing for the web techniques. This class fuses artistic rehabilitation, creative writing, marketing writing, and the RCAV blueprint model I designed specifically to enable students to get results fast with their writing skill development.
*An advanced version of this class is available for writers and journalists who already work in the field or have published, or are considering publishing in the near future. The advanced version is custom-made for those authors who need help in structuring, re-framing or finishing a manuscript they have already begun working on.
Benefits:
- To regain your inner voice and share your ideas with the world
- To translate your business vision into powerful, persuasive and emotionally cohesive stories
- To carve your space into the marketplace and identify your niche and ideal customer avatar
- To communicate with your readers and customers through the written word using emotion and empathy
- To connect with your audience authentically and keep that connection strong.
- To convert followers into paying customers
How it works:
A 1:1 session is 120 minutes long, including a 10 minutes break and a 10 minutes feedback round.
In the first hour we focus on an important theme for you and briefly deconstruct your specific situation, while in the second part of the class we work directly with dedicated tools for your specific goal. Here, we discover tactics and structural methods that you will be able to apply straight away in your creative work. Together, we design a plan to help you achieve your goal.
Your Investment
1:1 sessions
€120 for a one-time session (120 minutes), including handbook, plan and course materials
€80 for following sessions (50 minutes)
For groups and your team
Pitching and Public Speaking
4h workshop including a 20-minute break and a 20-minute feedback round.
Join a solution-focused pitching and public speaking workshop aimed at individuals who want to master effective communication skills in all aspects of their work. This class empowers you to turn your project/proposal into a significant, moving story that attunes to your target audience. You will learn techniques from narrative journalism, artistic rehabilitation and transactional analysis that can be used straight away and for a very long time.
You will learn
- To extract the most significant message you want to convey about your project
- To frame your pitch/story based on that core message
- To articulate your idea clearly, concisely and emotionally
- To effectively hold a speech as a non-native speaker
- To assertively use body language
- To tame stage fright
- To connect with others authentically and keep that connection strong by learning to share powerful stories in front of an audience.
And you will be able to apply what you’ve learned directly in your project communication.
Webinar participation includes a documentation of all the techniques you will learn, and your specific, guided assignment for tailoring the pitch you will present at the conference, including tips for creating and delivering your speech with ease, focus and in a successful manner.
Previous writing experience is not necessary.
Artistic Rehabilitation (Masterclass)
8h workshop, including a one-hour lunch break and two coffee breaks
The “Embody Through Storytelling” Artistic Rehabilitation *blueprint workshop was designed to help teams connect with the unadulterated source of passion and joy that lies at the core of who they are, and learn how to maintain a natural curiosity when dealing with mental or creative roadblocks.
Inspired by a method developed by American author, screenwriter and filmmaker Julia Cameron, this workshop is built to help people with artistic creative recovery. It teaches exercises to assist people in gaining self-confidence in harnessing their creative talents and skills, including journaling, meditation, short story/script writing, and other techniques that promote self-awareness and self-assessment.
The *blueprint Embody Through Storytelling workshop means 8 hours of creative introspection, featuring an introduction to Julia Cameron’s method and combined solution-oriented techniques aimed at self-awareness, self-reflection and cognitive enhancement. We address an open conversation with the inner child, the happiness architect that lives inside each one of us, and focus on the ways this deep connection can strengthen the way we can transform our lives, our jobs and our relationships through the permeability of creativity.
This masterclass is dedicated to you, the new age professional, dreamer, and doer.
You are in the right place if
- You are an entrepreneur, freelancer or creative.
- You are hands-deep in managing your business independently.
- You bring heart in your business and want to make a positive difference with your customers and build success for yourself.
- You struggle with personal doubt, creative block, and overwhelm.
- You want to cut through the noise and spend your time where it truly matters to reach the success you deserve, instead of testing the waters.
- You know the power of the digital world can amplify your success when used right.
Your learning journey with me
01
From the inside out
Our work together has a lot to do with your authentic narrative and how you translate both your emotional and analytical skills into stories.
02
Deconstruct to build
A strong story stands on four pillars: realism, creativity, authenticity and vulnerability.
03
Disconnect to connect
We tap into your what makes you you and challenge your limiting beliefs, your fears, and that critical voice inside your head.
04
Structure
This work is less about creativity and more about creating structure and uncluttering a too volatile, too big world of ideas.
from idea to conversion
05
Active listening
This is a safe space for you to express openly and gain self-confidence in harnessing your creative talents and skills.
06
Accountability
You see the hedges, how I got it shaped up? It’s important to shape up your hedges, it’s like getting a haircut, stay fresh.
07
Success
We uncover your life mission and enable you to drive that force through your own power. Everyone has a superpower.
08
Growth
Your story gains a life of its own once it reaches readers. How will you celebrate and integrate the feedback to take the story even further?
IOANA CRISTINA CASAPU 