My New Weekly Writing Class: Staying Present or There is No I in Trauma or Dream Big to Go Home

The What:

I am teaching what I want to learn: how to stay present. How to dream about the future instead of mulling over the past, trying to get what happened right.

I want to Ram Dass it and Be Here Now. I want to feel the floor under my feet more than I want to try to remember what happened when I was I in second grade.

The Why:

It’s common knowledge that the place to find power is in the space we occupy right at this moment. This moment. This moment, now, the one in which we are breathing, occupying space.

I have a history of thinking more about the past than I do about the present or the future, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that—we are all free to choose where we put our attention. Where we live is nobody’s business but our own. With that said, I want to push myself to a place that is less easy for me to occupy—the present—and doing it with others is more fun, I have found, than working at growing and changing alone.

There is an art to writing in the present tense. The present tense asks you to root yourself in your senses and in your body. We’ll work on that.

The Who:

This class is for people of all writing levels. We’re working with beginner’s mind, so it doesn’t matter if you’ve forgotten how to make a full sentence or if you are working on your 27th novel. We’ll all be at the same place doing the same thing: right here, writing.

The Where:

Every Saturday starting February 13th. Zoom, 4-6 PM PST.

The How:

You send me the suggested donation of $20 or whatever you can afford via PayPal (anneheffron@gmail.com) or Venmo (anne-heffron), and I’ll send you the Zoom link. You can take one class or a bunch or all. I’m going to do them until it starts to feel like it’s time to move on to something else.

I want this class to be fun. I also want it to change your life.