Mindful Writers
Skills you need to tell your story.
The 6-Week
Mindful Writers
Challenge
Prioritize Your Writing for 6 Weeks and Discover Your Potential
Every lesson included in the 6-Week Mindful Writers Challenge incorporates instruction on both mindfulness and craft. Some weeks are weighted more heavily toward the specific skills of writing, while others focus more on developing mindfulness. The class material is entirely secular and draws heavily on peer-reviewed research. See a detailed course description here.
Hone Your Focus
Hone your focus using various mindfulness meditation techniques.
Banish Inner Critics
Master your inner critic by learning to recognize the patterns in your own thinking.
Explore Character
Understand your own habitual responses to the world and use that insight to write more relatable and sympathetic heroes and villains.
Over the course of six weeks you will:
Over the course of six weeks you will:
Hone Your Focus
Learn different meditation techniques and find the one that best helps you hone your focus.
Tame Inner Critics
Become the boss of your inner critic by learning to recognize the patterns on your own thinking.
Explore Character
Study your own habitual responses to the world and use that insight to write more relatable characters.
Write Emotions
Learn to evoke emotion and stay with it long enough to describe it with empathy and precision.
Banish Writers Block
Banish writer's block forever by taking a closer look at what is really keeping you from writing.
Find Equanimity
Deal with rejections, manage imposter syndrome, develop your craft and above all: keep writing.
Upcoming Sessions
August 3 - Sept. 13, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Sept. 21 - Nov. 1, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Nov. 9 - Dec 20, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Curious about mindfulness and writing, but not sure if you're ready to take the challenge?
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Check out A Very Important Meeting
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Book a time to talk with April Dávila via Zoom or
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email april@aprildavila.com
Every Week of the Challenge Includes:
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One hour-long recorded lesson to be watched at your convenience
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Five hour-long mindful writing sessions, each consisting of a 10-minute meditation (reinforcing the lesson of the week) and 50 minutes of writing time
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A zoom writing workshop with the other mindful writers in the challenge
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Access to an online chat forum where you ask questions as they arise
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One day off (because rest is good for us)
You Will Learn To:
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hone your focus using various mindfulness meditation techniques
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befriend your inner critic and invite it take a seat while you get your first crappy draft on the page
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understand your own habitual responses to the world and use that insight to write more relatable and sympathetic heroes and villains
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engage in an advanced version mindfulness meditation to evoke emotion and find the words to describe it with empathy and precision
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banish writer's block forever by taking a closer look at what is really keeping you from writing
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structure your story and craft compelling scenes
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put your inner critic to work where it works best: as a top-notch editor
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find equanimity in the writing life, weather the challenges, and keep writing... because that's what writers do
MORE TESTIMONIALS
"I knew exactly what I needed to do every morning."
Barbara, Essayist
"She gave me lot of things I'd been looking for that other courses just didn't."
Pamala, Fiction Writer
"I never felt lectured to... I"m not how she did that."
Rex, Short Story Writer
"I'm really glad I did it. I gained so much."
Carolyn, First-Time Novelist
HOURS OF
CLASS CONTENT
plus
WRITING
WORKSHOPS
plus
SCRIVENER TUTORIALS
plus
A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS
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42
6
36
Upcoming Sessions
August 3 - Sept. 13, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Sept. 21 - Nov. 1, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Nov. 9 - Dec 20, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Curious about mindfulness and writing, but not sure if you're ready to take the challenge?
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Check out A Very Important Meeting
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Book a time to talk with April Dávila via Zoom or
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email april@aprildavila.com
Award-winning author and
certified mindfulness instructor.
Meet April Dávila
April Dávila is an award-winning fiction writer and meditation teacher certified by the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California Berkeley.
After realizing how much meditation helped her in her writing career (and her life) she decided to share what she had learned so that others might benefit.
When she's not writing or meditating you can usually find her hanging out with her kids or watching a movie with her filmmaker husband. For more information check out her website at http://aprildavila.com.
Upcoming Sessions
August 3 - Sept. 13, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Sept. 21 - Nov. 1, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Nov. 9 - Dec 20, 2022
One hour-long lesson a day
Six days a week for six weeks
Instructor: April Dávila
Location: Online
Tuition: $975
Enrollment: now open
Curious about mindfulness and writing, but not sure if you're ready to take the challenge?
-
Check out A Very Important Meeting
-
Book a time to talk with April Dávila via Zoom or
-
email april@aprildavila.com