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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Rosanne Bane 
Most writers wonder at times what the heck is going on inside their heads when they want to write, but can’t. Why do we make progress with our writing for while, then – for no reason we can discern – sabotage our own best efforts?
When we understand what’s happening inside our brain, we can learn to overcome resistance in the moment and rewire our brain in the long term to develop productive, sustainable writing habits.
In this session you will:
- Learn about your brain in easy-to-understand, layperson’s terms
- Understand why a limbic system takeover trumps your writing commitment and creativity
- Discover what you can do to reverse those limbic system takeovers and put your creative cortex back in the driver’s seat
- Recognize why habits are far more valuable and reliable than discipline or will power
- Identify the three habits that support the writing life
- Decide which habits you’re ready to adopt and design your commitment plan to build those habits
- Gain appreciation for your own efforts so far, and be reassured that you can be the writer you want to be and the world needs you to be.
Rosanne Bane, M.A. is a creativity coach, teaching artist, speaker and author of Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance and Dancing in the Dragon’s Den: Rekindling the Creative Fire in Your Shadow. A veteran teaching artist of more than 20 years, Rosanne specializes in helping creative people understand why it’s so hard (at times) to do the very thing they love to do. She has helped thousands of writers, artists and creative people of all sorts achieve their professional goals and make their creative dreams reality. See www.RosanneBane.com and www.BaneOfYourResistance.com
Date: Thursday 9th May Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
Want to listen to this teleseminar interview for free but not yet an IACCW member?
Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a FREE or FULL member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here
Tags: conscious, conscious creativity, creative, creative process, creative spirit, inspiration, Rosanne Bane, writer, writer's block, Writing
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Suze Casey 
Suze Casey explains that she “writes because she cannot not write”. Yet, moving from writer to widely published author took more courage than she knew she could muster. She had to face all the vulnerabilities, doubts and fears she had developed from the responses and feedback she had ever received. She had to come to know and value herself in a stronger and more committed way.
In this interview, you will discover:
- how to enter into – and out of – your creative space with ease
- an effective and efficient way to move through writer’s block or any other form of doubt or fear
- how to effectively acknowledge what has been in the way and give yourself permission to speak openly from the heart
- a simple decision-making process that will open the doors to new ways of writing
- how to recognize your authentic voice and have it become your way of being – in all areas of your life.
The developer of the Belief Re-patterning® technique, Suze Casey has always been fascinated with the mysteries of the human mind. She spent twenty years as an educator, and since 1999 has completely followed her passion – supporting others to learn, grow and embrace their potential. She is the author of Belief Re-patterning: The Amazing Technique for “Flipping the Switch” to Positive Thoughts (Hay House) and travels extensively offering workshops, seminars and conference keynotes as well as maintaining a vital international coaching practice. See www.suzecasey.com and www.beliefrepatterning.com
Date: Thursday 4th April Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
Want to listen to this teleseminar interview for free but not yet an IACCW member?
Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a FREE or FULL member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here
Tags: authentic, author, conscious, creative, creative spirit, inspiration, publisher, Publishing, suze casey, writer, Writing
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Stephen Harrod Buhner 
Approaching writing as a sacred art, Stephen Buhner explores the core of the craft: the communication of deep meaning that feeds not just the mind but also the soul of the reader. Tapping into the powerful archetypes within language, he shows how to enrich your writing by following “golden threads” of inspiration while understanding the crucial invisibles essential to the art of both fiction and nonfiction.
By the end of this in-depth interview, you will have an appreciation of how to:
- craft language with feeling and vision, employ altered states of mind to access the writing trance, and clear your work by recognizing the powerful sway of clichéd thinking and hidden baggage
- infuse your nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, with the same power and luminosity as great fiction
- explore the subtle techniques of powerful writing, from inducing associational dreaming in the reader, to language symmetry, sound patterning, foreshadowing, feeling flow, and more.
Stephen Harrod Buhner is the multiple-award-winning author of 17 works of nonfiction and one of poetry. He is fully supported by his writing and believes that any writer who puts the depths of themselves into their work and learns how to concentrate that luminous essence powerfully into language can do so as well. For over twenty years he traveled widely throughout the U.S. and the Western European Isles teaching about duende, Earth relationship, and wild plant medicines. For more information, visit www.gaianstudies.org
Date: Thursday 7th March Time: 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST
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Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a FREE or FULL member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here
Tags: author, creative, creative process, Ensouling Language, inspiration, Non-Fiction for Conscious Writers, Stephen Harrod Buhner, writer, writer's voice, Writing
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Marilyn Schlitz
Transformations in consciousness can come as you shift your perspective on what has meaning and purpose, inviting in to your life a dynamic engagement with all the richness that comes from even the most common acts and experiences. Washing dishes, tending the garden, spending time with family, can all be an opportunity to embrace a new quality of being and can inform the nature of your writing and creative self-expression.
In this interview you will learn how to:
- Shift your awareness from the outer world and open new doors to the inner world.
- Gain insight from modern science that can open you to your highest creativity.
- See the familiar with new eyes to inspire your ideas and enrich your writing.
- Build new habits that encourage original insights and learn to listen to the guidance that comes from your most authentic inner voice.
- Use simple transformative practices to set your intentions in ways that nurture creativity and broaden your attention to embrace possibilities beyond those you have learned to expect – for your authorship and for your life.
Marilyn Schlitz, PhD is Ambassador for Creative Projects and Global Affairs and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she has worked for over 19 years. For more than three decades, Marilyn has been a leader in the field of consciousness studies. A researcher, speaker, change consultant, and author, Marilyn is currently working on a compelling new movie and education program with Deepak Chopra called Death Makes Life Possible. For more information visit www.marilynschlitz.com and www.noetic.org
Date: Thursday 7th February Time: 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST
Want to listen to this teleseminar interview for free but not yet an IACCW member?
Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a FREE or FULL member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here
Tags: conscious, conscious creativity, creative, creative process, creative spirit, inspiration, Marilyn Schlitz, writer, writer's voice, Writing
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Steve Taylor
When we ‘wake up’, our whole lives become an expression of a higher state of consciousness. Awakening transforms our relationships, our values, goals and our perspective of reality. It also often opens us up to a great reservoir of creativity.
In this conversation you will learn:
- Why there is such a strong connection between spiritual awakening and creativity
- Why so many poets and authors have been spiritually awakened, and so many spiritual teachers have also been poets and authors
- The sources of the surface discord of the human mind and how to transcend it
- How to cultivate a state of inner harmony which will naturally give rise to creative expression
- What ‘awakening experiences’ are and how to generate them as a Conscious Writer
Steve Taylor is a lecturer in psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality including Back to Sanity and The Meaning. He was recently included (at no. 31) in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s list of the ‘100 most spiritually influential living people.’ Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present’. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 40 academic journals, magazines and newspapers, and his work has been featured widely in the UK media. See www.stevenmtaylor.co.uk
Date: Thursday 10th January Time: 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST
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Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here …
Tags: authentic, author, Awakening to Your True Creative Potential as a Conscious Writer, book, conscious, creative, creative process, creative spirit, inspiration, Steve Taylor, writer, Writing
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Julia McCutchen interviews Dr Christine Page
This is an extraordinary time in our planet’s history. Now more than ever before, it is our thoughts, beliefs and dreams which will shape our future and that of the generations who follow, and Conscious Writers have an important role to play in the unfolding Mystery.
In this interview you will learn how to:
- Safely surf the waves of change that accompany any birth and which echo the creative writing process
- Release the patterns which anchor you to the old paradigm and make way for the new as you honour your creative potential
- Listen to your intuition, the messenger of the heart, and allow it to guide you as a Conscious Writer
- Embody the wisdom of your experiences to empower you to make the contribution to the new world that only you can make
Known as a mystical physician, Dr Christine Page was immersed in spiritual mysteries from an early age. She is a gifted intuitive, mystic and alchemist, sharing her insights and knowledge through teaching, soul readings and writing. Christine is the author of 7 books including Frontiers of Health. For more information visit www.christinepage.com
Date: Thursday 6th December Time: 16:00 GMT / 11:00 EST
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Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here …
Tags: Conscious Writers, creative, creative process, creative spirit, Dr Christine Page, Frontiers of Health, imagination, inspiration, mystical physician
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Thursday, September 27th, 2012
 Julia McCutchen interviews Guy Clapperton
A good review or media interview can be like gold dust to an author but how do you make that first contact and approach journalists successfully?
By the end of this teleseminar, you will understand how to:
- Cut through some of the dated advice out there about the “press pack”.
- Structure a press release so the recipient will identify you as a non-time-waster.
- React when a journalist gets in touch after reading the release and follow through professionally.
Guy Clapperton has written two books which have brushed the sides of various Amazon Top Ten charts, This Is Social Media and This Is Social Commerce. He has been a journalist since 1989 and has spoken internationally on press relations and social media in 9 countries spanning two continents in the last year. For more information, see www.clapperton.co.uk
Date: Thursday 4th October Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
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Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here …
Tags: guy clapperton, press, press release, publication, publicity, publish, publisher, Publishing
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
As we head deeper into September and gather our focus after the holidays, here are two new events which will support you to write the book(s) you are here to write:
 1. One Day Workshop Live in London
on SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER
CONSCIOUS WRITING
How to Bring Your Whole Self to the Whole Process of Creative Writing
with
Julia McCutchen
Listen to a FREE 30 minute audio on Conscious Writing here
Conscious Writing is a new way forwards for writers at any stage of the writing process – even if you haven’t started writing yet. This powerful approach to following the impulse of your heart and writing with the voice of your soul is an intuitive yet structured technique for discovering and sharing your unique gifts – on the page and in the world.
By the end of this workshop you will have completed your first piece of conscious writing and:
- Understand how conscious writing enables you to write the book(s) you are here to write.
- Open the floodgates to receive an infinite stream of creative inspiration.
- Learn the 7 step process to overcome resistance and transform it into fuel for your creative fire.
- Discover how to access the true source of your authentic writer’s voice.
- Go to deeper levels than ever before in the Conscious Writing Sanctuary.
- Know how to give shape, form and structure to your richest ideas.
- Enjoy a taste of the freedom to be who you are as you express yourself consciously and creatively in the world.
For more information and to book your place
click here
“Thank you for a wonderful experience. I got so much from it … such unexpected things, all rather delicious! I feel like I’ve just come out of a lovely warm bath!”
“An enlightening and wonderful experience yesterday, please accept my deepest gratitude for what was a truly inspiring workshop.”
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 2. One Day Workshop Live in London
on SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER
CREATING IN THE MOMENT
How to Engage Consciously with the Mystery of the Creative Process
with
Julia McCutchen
Whether you are an aspiring author, experienced artist, inspired entrepreneur or simply enjoy all aspects of creative living, understanding how to create in the moment will lead you to discover, and express, your deepest and richest ideas.
In this experiential workshop, you will gain significant insight into the principles of Creating in the Moment and have the opportunity to apply what you learn to a guided practice of conscious writing or artistic expression.
By the end you will have tangible evidence of how the Creating in the Moment process enables you to:
- Access your creative core at the heart of your deep self
- Uncover your creative voice and talents as an artist of life
- Align your head and heart so they work hand in hand
- Show up regularly, create freely and express yourself authentically
- Begin your creative work in a compelling and joyful way
- Understand what fuels your creative fire to keep the momentum going
- Sharpen your senses and develop your intuition
- Make the greatest possible contribution to others with your ideas
- Enjoy the feelings of freedom and purpose that come from shining your true light in the world.
To read more and register your place
click here
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Julia McCutchen interviews Mark Coker
This session is reserved for IACCW Members only.
Over the last four years, Mark Coker’s company Smashwords has helped over 47,000 authors publish more than 139,000 ebook titles. In part two of his two-part session, Mark will reveal the ebook publishing best practices of the most commercially successful authors including:
- Building reader trust
- Time management
- Metadata – what it is and how to use it your advantage
- Leveraging viral catalysts to make your books more discoverable to readers
- How ebook retailers merchandise ebooks to readers
- Creating covers that get noticed
- Exclusivity. Friend or foe?
- Addressing the global market opportunity
- And many more!
Mark Coker is the founder of Smashwords, an ebook publishing and distribution platform serving 45,000 independent authors and publishers around the world. More than 139,000 titles have been released through Smashwords since its founding in 2008. Mark is also the author of the free ebook The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success. For more information, visit www.smashwords.com
Date: Thursday 6th September Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
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Tags: author, book, ebook, mark coker, publish, publisher, Publishing, self-publishing, writer, Writing
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Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Julia McCutchen interviews Mark Coker
This session is FREE for everyone to enjoy!
In part one of this two-part session, Mark Coker, will provide a primer on ebook publishing, free of jargon and hype. He will provide listeners with the practical knowledge and guidance they need to prepare, publish, market and distribute their masterpieces. Mark will cover:
- Market trends that led to the rise of ebooks
- How indie ebook publishing levels the playing field for all authors
- Why there’s never been a better time to be an author
- Guidance on ebook creation (including formatting and conversion)
- Advice on how to price ebooks
- Distribution and marketing strategies
Date: Thursday 6th September Time: 14:30 BST / 09:30 EST
Part 1 Primer is free to everyone. Click here to register for your FREE place
Tags: author, book, ebook, kindle, mark coker, publish, publisher, Publishing, writer, Writing
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