Dr. Maisel will offer four Deep Writ­ing Work­shops in 2012 and will present three classes with the Acad­emy for Opti­mal Liv­ing. His classes with the Acad­emy for Opti­mal Liv­ing are:

Your Best Life in the Arts

Noimet­ics: Bring Mean­ing to Life!

Rethink­ing Depres­sion: How to Shed Men­tal Health Labels and Cre­ate Per­sonal Meaning

DEEP WRITING WORKSHOPS IN 2012

Dr. Maisel is offer­ing four Deep Writ­ing Work­shops in 2012. Three will be offered at America’s best-loved work­shop cen­ters Kri­palu, Esalen and Omega and the fourth will take place in Prague.

Kri­palu Cen­ter for Yoga and Health, March 18 – 23, 2012

Prague, May 5 – May 9, 2012

Esalen Insti­tute, June 3 – June 8, 2012 (fol­lowed by a Noimet­ics weekend)

Omega Insti­tute, Sep­tem­ber 30 – Octo­ber 5, 2012

WHAT HAPPENS AT A DEEP WRITING WORKSHOP

Dr. Maisel’s Deep Writ­ing work­shops are sim­ple in struc­ture and pow­er­ful in effect.

Dur­ing the work­shop you relearn how much writ­ing means to you and make real progress on your cho­sen project. A gen­uinely safe envi­ron­ment is cre­ated because par­tic­i­pants’ writ­ing is nei­ther shared nor cri­tiqued. Rather, the group receives per­mis­sion to spend time con­nect­ing with and falling back in love with their own writing.

Impor­tant Lessons — and Real Time to Write!

Each writ­ing ses­sion begins with an impor­tant les­son. You explore the unique chal­lenges that writ­ers face and have the oppor­tu­nity to resolve long­stand­ing issues around com­mit­ting, plan­ning and doing, gen­er­at­ing men­tal energy, achiev­ing a cen­tered pres­ence, mas­ter­ing anx­i­ety, and main­tain­ing a writ­ing life.

The Deep Writ­ing Work­shop is ideal for writ­ers of every level of expe­ri­ence, from pub­lished authors to writ­ers who have yet to begin writ­ing. It is like­wise ideal for writ­ers who want to dis­cover what they want to write, who are hop­ing to get back to a beloved project, and who are immersed in a cur­rent project.

Learn from America’s fore­most cre­ativ­ity coach.

Chat infor­mally with Dr. Maisel about your writ­ing and your pub­lish­ing ques­tions. Give your­self the gift of a writ­ing week in the com­pany of other writ­ers in the beau­ti­ful city of Prague.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING

Paris, 2011

“I’ve deliv­ered a lot of writ­ing work­shops and been a par­tic­i­pant on many and this is by far the very best. It is rare to find a writ­ing work­shop where the main focus is sim­ply on writ­ing. I’ve writ­ten more in Paris than I have done in months. This is my sec­ond year and I look for­ward to this serv­ing as a per­ma­nent yearly fea­ture on my writ­ing cal­en­dar.” — Jac­kee Holder, author of Soul Pur­pose and Be Your Own Best Life Coach


“A Deep Writ­ing Work­shop with Eric Maisel cures what ails you: writer’s block, pro­cras­ti­na­tion, anx­i­ety, lack of focus, iner­tia, and replaces it with good writ­ing health: focus, moti­va­tion, con­fi­dence, new skills and strate­gies, and a com­mu­nity of writ­ers for sup­port. It’s also long last­ing, a sin­gle dose will carry you through until the next year’s work­shop!” — Jude Whel­ley


“I’ve now done Eric’s Deep Writ­ing work­shop in Paris, Lon­don, and New York City and it is my favorite week of the year. Get­ting so much writ­ing done has been won­der­ful. So has learn­ing about writ­ing and pub­lish­ing from a pro. Both have been great! I know that I will con­tinue writ­ing when I get home—I’ve got the momen­tum, the tools, and most impor­tantly a clear pic­ture of what I need to do. I can’t wait to see where Eric is going next year!” – Mary Beall Adler


Lon­don, 2010

“This week in Lon­don rep­re­sented a won­der­ful lux­ury and a truly safe haven in which to write. Hav­ing the writ­ing not com­pete with the usual demands at home has made a big dif­fer­ence. And hav­ing time left each day to explore Lon­don made for a per­fect week!” — Jen­nifer T.


“Rather than being a chal­leng­ing, gru­el­ing week of hard work it has been a week of flow and relief that I can do this writ­ing thing and that my story is good. I’ve fallen in love with my book and with dis­cov­er­ing my char­ac­ters and I had a blast. Thank you, Eric, for hold­ing the energy so well!”  – Ruth P.


“This was a great work­shop. I really enjoyed it and looked for­ward to each day. This work­shop has helped to kick­start my novel, which had only been in my head until this week. Thanks so much!” — Ralph M.


“The work­shop was direct, sober­ing, steady, safe, open, and respect­ful. It does not get much bet­ter than this!” — Bob C.

WORKSHOP DETAILS FOR KRIPALU, ESALEN, AND OMEGA

For more infor­ma­tion on the Deep Writ­ing Work­shop at Kri­palu (March 18 – 23, 2012) please visit here

For more infor­ma­tion on the Deep Writ­ing Work­shop at Esalen (June 3 – 8, 2012) please visit here

For more infor­ma­tion on the Deep Writ­ing Work­shop at Omega (Sep­tem­ber 12 – Octo­ber 5, 2012) please visit here

“A Deep Writ­ing Work­shop with Eric Maisel is like drink­ing an entire bot­tle of absolutely deli­cious Writer’s Tonic. It cures what ails you: writer’s block, pro­cras­ti­na­tion, anx­i­ety, lack of focus, iner­tia, and replaces it with good writ­ing health: focus, moti­va­tion, con­fi­dence, new skills and strate­gies, and a com­mu­nity of writ­ers for sup­port. It’s also long last­ing, a sin­gle dose will carry you through until the next year’s work­shop!” — Jude Whel­ley

“I’ve now done Eric’s Deep Writ­ing work­shop in Paris, Lon­don, and New York City and it is my favorite week of the year. Get­ting so much writ­ing done has been won­der­ful. So has learn­ing about writ­ing and pub­lish­ing from a pro. Both have been great! I’ve writ­ten more in the past week than I’ve writ­ten in the past year at home. Just as impor­tantly, I know that I will con­tinue writ­ing when I get home—I’ve got the momen­tum, the tools, and most impor­tantly a clear pic­ture of what I need to do—show up every day and write! I can’t wait to see where Eric is going next year!” – Mary Beall Adler

WORKSHOPS DETAILS FOR PRAGUE

You can pay for the Prague Deep Writ­ing Work­shop here at this site. The fee of $425 (tuition only – travel and accom­mo­da­tions on your own) is com­pletely refund­able until April 1, 2012 (after that date the fee can be applied to another work­shop or train­ing but it is not refund­able). If you pre­fer to pay by check, please con­tact Dr. Maisel at ericmaisel@hotmail.com.

PRAGUE DEEP WRITING WORKSHOP, MAY 5 – MAY 9, 2012

 

Fri­day, May 4
6 – 9 pm
Optional infor­mal get-together at the Golem Club (closed to the pub­lic that evening) at the cen­ter of Prague

Sat­ur­day, May 5
10 am — 2 pm
We begin by focus­ing on core ideas about the impor­tance of qui­et­ing the mind, the power of insti­tut­ing a daily writ­ing prac­tice, and the nature of process, includ­ing the place of mis­takes and messes in the writ­ing process. Par­tic­i­pants also learn to write for vary­ing lengths of time that increase as the day and the week pro­ceed so that they acquire a vis­ceral sense of how much can be accom­plished by “show­ing up and stay­ing in place.”

7 – 9 pm
Din­ner out (Optional)

Sun­day, May 6
10 am — 2 pm
Impor­tant lessons cov­ered include mak­ing the tran­si­tion from “not writ­ing” to “writ­ing,” mak­ing use of small incre­ments of time dur­ing the day, and man­ag­ing the anx­i­ety that is part of the cre­ative process. Par­tic­i­pants con­tinue their deep writ­ing and con­tinue to learn from the group energy and the group wisdom.

2:30 – 4 pm (optional)
Par­tic­i­pants are pre­sented with an overview of the pub­lish­ing process, includ­ing the dif­fer­ences between sell­ing fic­tion and non­fic­tion and the nature and require­ments of the non­fic­tion book pro­posal. Indi­vid­ual con­cerns and ques­tions are addressed.

Mon­day, May 7
10 am – 2 pm
Lessons include how to access your biggest and best ideas, how to make use of your sleep think­ing, and how to con­cep­tu­al­ize the com­ple­tion process. Par­tic­i­pants con­tinue their deep writing.

2:30 – 4 pm (optional)
Par­tic­i­pants are walked through the writ­ing and sell­ing process, includ­ing how to take an idea from incep­tion to com­ple­tion, how to find and work with a lit­er­ary agent, and how to man­age the writer-agent and writer-editor rela­tion­ships. Indi­vid­ual con­cerns and ques­tions are addressed.

Tues­day, May 8
10 am – 2 pm
Impor­tant lessons include man­ag­ing the neg­a­tive self-talk that inter­feres with writ­ing, increas­ing con­fi­dence, and deal­ing with dis­trac­tions. Par­tic­i­pants con­tinue their deep writ­ing and con­tinue to gain from the group experience.

2:30 – 4 pm (optional)
We focus on indi­vid­ual con­cerns and the var­i­ous needs of par­tic­i­pants who are at dif­fer­ent stages of the writ­ing and pub­lish­ing process.

Wednes­day, May 9
10 am – 1 pm
Par­tic­i­pants con­tinue their deep writ­ing and artic­u­late how they will make use of the lessons they’ve learned once they return home. Cul­mi­nat­ing lessons include how to access on a daily basis the momen­tum and energy gained from the workshop.

To sign up and pay for the Prague Deep Writ­ing work­shop please visit here.