In this one-day workshop, you’ll learn new ways to access your writer’s voice through movement, find the magic that happens when sharing your work aloud, and begin to shift your resistance and limiting beliefs
around writing and creativity.

As inspiration, we’ll sit with the newly installed sculpture by Elizabeth Helfer, “Freedom’s Silhouette,” that honors abolitionist Henry David Thoreau and Ellen Garrison. We’ll explore the connection between our bodies and our pens, giving voice to what freedom means to us. Because the more we create with an authentic voice, the more we are free.

And you’ll go home with creative momentum and some easy and powerful practices
you can use on your own. 

YOUR INSTRUCTORS:

Cate McQuaid, a Boston Globe writer for nearly 30 years who has recently launched a Substack called “Ocean in a drop,” employs body-based practices with roots in authentic movement, Vipassana meditation, and drama therapy.

Madeleine Eno is a former magazine editor and yoga teacher who now helps creative entrepreneurs discover the soul and meaning of their stories, so they can then confidently write their book and impact the world in their own true way. She uses the tools of Human Design and the Gene Keys to help her clients dive more deeply into what they really want to say.

We met at a writing workshop in Boston in our early 20s and have shared many writing adventures and experiments through the years. We’re thrilled to weave together this potent mix of movement, partner work, Gene Keys exploration, and putting pen to paper. 

What a fantastic day with exercises and guidance from Cate and Madeleine that
truly helped me find my voice and purpose in my writing, something I have never felt before.

You both brought such lovely energy—I felt very supported. 

I wanted it to keep going! More please!

—Participants in June 2023 Embodied Writer workshop

LOGISTICS

Date: Saturday, September 28 from 10 am – 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $0   Presented by the Concord Center Cultural District with funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
Register: Email theembodiedwriter@gmail.com with your name and contact information. The group size is limited to 12.
Bring: Wear comfy clothes, and bring a bag lunch, journal and pen that you love to write with.
Location:  Monument Square, Concord Center. We’ll start outside and move to a comfortable, nearby indoor location.
Questions? Email theembodiedwriter@gmail.com