Writing & Thriving Intro with Sally-Shakti Willow

Writing & Thriving
Written By Sally-Shakti Willow

Hi, I'm Sally-Shakti - Welcome to Writing & Thriving!

The foundational practices of Writing & Thriving are:

🌀 Breathe

🌀 Move

🌀 Write

I developed Writing & Thriving out of my own need to take care of my own wellbeing - both *while* writing and *through* writing.

Writing & Thriving practices can support you to get unstuck, overcome writer's block, and get on with your writing project.

Writing & Thriving practices can also support you to meet yourself on the page - with compassion, awareness and love.

Sally-Shakti Willow

Writing my PhD in Utopian Poetics showed me what it means to be a writer. I wrote four books of poetry and a 50,000 word thesis, and I started journaling as a way to ground and heal myself.

While I was studying, I also wrote and maintained the Contemporary Small Press website, writing regular reviews of new fiction and poetry published by small presses. I was on the judging panel for the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize for literary fiction from the small presses. So I was reading a lot of great writing too. And I co-developed and taught a series of workshops called WELLBEING WHILE WRITING for doctoral researchers at the University of Westminster.

WELLBEING WHILE WRITING used practical techniques from Creative Writing pedagogy to support PhD students of all disciplines with the work of WRITING their thesis. I also used my knowledge and experience of yoga and meditation to provide MOVING & BREATHING FOR WELLBEING workshops to graduate students at the University.

I’ve been teaching English since 2004 and I’ve been teaching Creative Writing at the University of Westminster since 2017.

https://www.writingthriving.com
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