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Welcome Creative Writers!
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
~ Maya Angelou
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Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program
Have you embarked on a spiritual transformation and have a deep desire
to share your story?
Do you feel called to write a book to create positive impact in society by sharing your unique voice from an intuitively perceptive place, THEN
I am here as your guide, coach, and developmental editor.
Going through a spiritual transformation journey is a life changing and life enhancing experience. For some people, life itself is spiritual and transformational in nature. For others, a certain section of their lives was spiritual and/or transformative in some way. Your life’s story becomes the way readers learn, shift perspective, and have the opportunity to make changes in their lives. All from your story!
Writing a book and bringing it all the way through to publication takes courage, perseverance, and a deep yearning to teach through your story! The creative writing process takes determination to work through unexpected challenges and trust your unique creative process. This is commendable. Because of what it takes to persevere through the obstacles and challenges that show up in unknown, kirky, and undesirable ways. Writing and publishing a book is truly is a lifetime achievement.
I believe in supporting people with their authentic, creative expressions through the adventurous journey of the creative writing process. I provide developmental editing and coaching services to guide you in: assessing your writing, providing compassionate and constructive feedback while also coaching you to write the book living inside of you.
My clients are usually looking for me to call them out in areas where they aren’t being honest with themselves, their stories, or their creative process. Then together, we shift their relationship with their writing and creative process to create a book they love with positive impact. I am at my best when acknowledging writers' unique relationships with their creative process and supporting them to trust their creative flow.
Writers receive the best results when they want guidance yet also are capable of taking responsibility for doing what needs to be done to complete their book. This means communicating about any difficulties, enacting my suggestions, and celebrating achievements.
The main result is: writing a book you love that engages your ideal audience in relevant, transformative ways. We collaborate together in brainstorming solutions to help you focus on following the organic flow of you unique creative process and acknowledging what and how this occurs for you to create the best results in your writing.
More results of our work together:
Support in listening to what you truly want to express from an authentic place.
A safe and supportive container in speaking your truth and sharing your experiences.
Clear, relevant, and action-oriented suggestions.
Acknowledgment of frustrations and fears with clear steps for how to move forward.
Honest, compassionate, and constructive feedback on your writing.
To check if this program is right for you, continue reading and also check out this informative Checklist!
You can also email me at regina@transpersonalguidance.com
Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program!
General Program Overview*
The Journey of Spiritual Transformation is a successful way to structure your book with providing the necessary plot points, story arcs, and character arcs toward writing a fabulous manuscript while also developing greater awareness and understanding of your creative writing process.
The Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program is for you if you desire to write a Full Manuscript memoir (approximately 50,000 - 70,000 words) about your spiritual transformational journey. The program’s stages assist you with developing greater awareness and understanding of how your personal life’s path, gifts, lessons, and challenges inform your writing and help others. Where personal challenges transform into teaching opportunities. Where your personal learning process through writing specific memories/scenes reaches readers with universal themes.
The Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program leads you on an in-depth journey of your creative writing process. This in-depth process creates opportunities to enhance your writing craft with a renewed view of your personal journey through greater clarity, understanding, and enjoyment.
Writing a memoir is like toggling between the past and present. The past can often bring emotional and/or psychological triggers that need to be addressed during the writing process. Even though I am not a therapist, I do have a specific coaching skill set that helps writers work through challenges that come up during their writing. To then facilitate suggestions for next best steps during those challenging stages. This way the writing can continue with even greater awareness, emotional connection, and relevancy for your readers.
For more detailed information about my coaching style, check out the Editing & Coaching Page.
The Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program is a structured, self-paced program with bi-monthly check-in coaching calls to discuss the stage, your progress, your creative process, questions/ideas, collaboration, and overall development of your book.
The timeline of the The Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program, including calls, takes approximately 12 to 24 weeks, depending on your schedule, to develop a well structured, highly relevant, and engaging book! We create a structured timeline before you embark on the memoir writing process.
How would it be if more spiritually-focused women shared their spritual transformations with the world from a place of heart, courage, and desire to teach through their stories?
A path to a better world.
“Regina's writing program was a transformative experience for me. Her guidance and support helped me to dig deep into my memories and emotions, allowing me to uncover new insights and thoughts about my life. As a developmental editor, Regina was compassionate, insightful, and always focused on helping me to tell my story in the most authentic and powerful way possible. Working with her was a collaborative and empowering process that allowed me to find healing and closure through the power of memoir writing.”
~ Denise Schaad, Author of Spirit Speaks
Writing Program includes:
12 Stages of structured reading, writing, and organizational assignments specifically focused on key elements of a writer’s spiritual transformation journey. Each stage offers specific suggestions for how to focus your writing and structured assignments while also giving ample space for your creativity to shine based upon your personal choice of scenes, obstacles, lessons, themes, challenges, commitments, sacrifices, successes and much more!
Reading & writing assignments are geared toward accessing the senses and subconscious to create a book that is organically written with fewer drafts and is rich in meaning with lessons learned and universal themes.
Assignments focus on each stage of your spiritual transformation process, your unique voice/style, writing form and rhythm, character development, setting/place, and creating the story’s plot with the Journey of Spiritual Transformation structure.
Assignments flow easily within the Journey of Spiritual Transformation Story Structure so that your life’s choice points and inner arc create a successful story arc and character arc.
Organization of chapters into a complete manuscript based upon the writing you accomplish within each the stages. This includes an overall universal theme to hook readers and lessons learned so that readers are learning alongside the telling of your story.
12 Coaching Calls are built into the program with each of the stages. The calls focus on: check-in on progress of specific stage, questions/ideas about assignments and stage, collaboration as necessary about each stage, book outline, structure, overall universal themes and lessons, character arcs, and plot arcs.
The Guided Somatic Journey calls are optional and additional. These calls focus on going deeper into working with any stuck areas, clear any obstacles, and provide clarity, understanding, and learning about any challenges occurring with a particular stage.
The timeline of the The Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program, including calls, takes approximately 12 to 24 weeks to develop a well structured, highly relevant, and engaging book!
As we go along, the timeline, including calls, may shift and change based upon your needs. You’re welcome to spread out the stages as they increase in depth and scope with more time between sessions depending on personal needs.
A review of each piece of writing will be accomplished for each stage. This review includes:
Character development, Plot elements, Emerging voice/style, Writing craft assignment completion, Scene writing improvement, Lessons emerging, and Universal themes emerging.
My review of each assignment is Not a full developmental edit. There is a developmental editing option to include both during and after the program. (See below.)
Extra writing assignments are provided for those who want to amp up their writing.
A gift of a journal is mailed to you upon paid deposit.
Focus for Writing Exercises:
Developing writing from the five senses and the subconscious.
Developing form and rhythm of sentences to create your unique Style & Voice.
Creating enticing characters as archetypes with thematic character arcs—this includes creating yourself as a captivating character.
Setting/Place as its own character and/or as plot enhancement.
Plot development: Following the Journey of Spiritual Transformation Stages.
Story Structure
About the Calls:
Coaching calls are 30 minutes. The coaching calls are a MUST and are included in the overall cost of the program. They happen with every stage. The are 12 coaching calls built into the program. Generally, writers choose to accomplish 2 stages a month which means having 2 coaching calls a month. Coaching calls generally occur after the stage assignments have been completed. However, if you become stuck and/or need support during the writing of a stage, then definitely schedule a coaching call and/or reach out via email.
Email communication is included in the cost of the program.
(Optional) Guided Somatic Journey calls are 1 hour. The guided somatic journey calls are optional and can be added at any time. There are specific stages where these calls are suggested due to the intensity of a stage, and/or feeling stuck in the process, and/or needing support through a challenge related to a specific stage.
For more detailed information about my coaching style, check out the Editing & Coaching Page.
The first packet of information and assignments will be sent out after the the agreement is signed and first deposit is made. Thereafter, each stage’s packet will be sent via email upon completion of the previous stage.
A summary of each stage is given on the next pages. The main purpose of providing the summary is for you to discern and feel into whether your story relates with the focus of these stages.
Pricing
Total price of the Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program (12 to 24 weeks): $3600
(Installment plans are an option)
(Optional) Guided Journey Calls - $150/hr per call.
(Additional to program price)
(Optional) Developmental Editing DURING the program includes 2 hours per stage: $4680
(Installment plans are an option)
(Optional) Developmental Editing AFTER finishing the Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program:
10% discount will be given to the manuscript development edit price for finishing the program and choosing me as your developmental editor!
$45/hr. Example Estimate: For 65 pages, approximately $1462.50 for 32.5 hours with a 5-6 week turn around
Click here to learn more about my Developmental Editing Services.
* This program has evolved from seven years of studying writing craft books and books of many genres, attending writing workshops, writing craft research, attending writing conventions, and professional developmental editing experiences. Including my experiences in coaching over those years with a two-year masters study focus in Transpersonal Psychology. The creation of this program stems from the following books and resources and much more! The Journey Process was inspired by the books: Maureen Murdock’s version of The Heroine’s Journey, (1990), Shambhala, The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger, (2020), Gail Carriger LLC, and The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler (2007), Michael Wiese Productions. Writing Process inspired by the book: From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler (2005) Grove Press and Story by Robert McKee (1998) Regan Books.
You can also email me at regina@transpersonalguidance.com