THE HEALING SEED CENTER FOR GEOPOETICS
Classes, Workshops, Writers Websites, One-on-One short or long-term Project Coaching, Writing Support and sustained encouragement for Creatives and trans-disciplinary adventurers.
Your creative voice is a necessary part of the integrated world.
Develop it at The Healing Seed Center for Geopoetics.
Upping Our Game
Join a group of engaged and inspired poem-makers in monthly gatherings with sustained support and encouragement between meetings. Free your voice from doubt and self-censorship through practiced expression, new modes of writing and exploration.
The group meets on the third Tuesday of each month.
Group Writing Sessions
Incorporate creativity into your Sunday rituals. Meet at the beautiful, welcoming Healing Seed Center in Arden for coffee and snacks and engage in the "Opus Practice" of writing seven poems in two hours in this guided exercise that always reveals new work, new discovery.
One on One
Meet with poet Laura Hope-Gill on a weekly or monthly basis for creative coaching, writing-facilitated healing and skill-building.
The Asheville Creative
Invite poet Laura Hope-Gill to your office or home gathering to engage in a creative project guaranteed to move groups into increased awareness, levity and interest. For groups of friends and networking circles, the program offers invention and innovation in how we interact with one another. Consider it a refreshment of common bonds.
For employers, this project helps stave off burn-out and ruts in the workplace by building community and reminding managers and employees alike of the value of knowing the people we work with. On- and off-site adventures available. Surprise your employees with an away-from-the-computer afternoon or morning where instead the "work" you do is pure creativity. You will find your staff refreshed and re-committed, increase retention, capacity and productivity.
Cost: $500 per session for groups of 1-9; $1200 for groups of 10 or more.
Marketing
Writing the book just might be the easy part. Getting it out into the marketplace is the evolving "second" step. Laura will guide you, even as you are still working on your book, through strategies for building a strong social media platform and marketing plan. She will teach you the many-faceted channels from laptop to bookshelf including an extensive list of independent booksellers, Barnes and Noble self-publishing and indie publishing networks and distribution options. No matter how brilliant your book is, your marketing strategy has to be structured and sound if your words are going to make it into the world. Laura will help. $50.00 per hour.
Web-Development
Even before your book is in print, it deserves a website and blog. Laura will develop a website and train you on a program that makes it easy for you to take ownership. $150.00-$500.00. Sliding scale available.
email: laura@thehealingseed.com
or Message me on Facebook: Laura Hope-Gill
Pricing ranges from $50.00 per hour for consultation and guidance.
LAURA HOPE-GILL: MFA from Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, NC Arts Fellow in
Creative Nonfiction, Founder and Director of Asheville Wordfest, First
Poet Laureate of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Poet-author of The Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians, Essayist-author of Look Up Asheville: A Journey Through Architecture. She has four years experience working in publishing and fifteen years experience in education.
