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The SOMO Creative Writing Workshop Experience
The Southern Momentum Creative Writing Essential Experience
We begin with a minimum two-hour AWA-certified facilitated session. Each workshop includes at least two prompt-driven writing and feedback sessions, one somatic practice, and is led by a supportive expert facilitator grounded in the AWA Essential Practices.
“AWA’s core belief is simple: every person is a writer, every writer deserves a safe environment in which to experiment, learn, and develop craft.” Pat Schneider (Amherstwriters.org)
Two Hour Minimum WorkshopTwo hours offers writers the space and time to write with intention, share without fear, and leave with a meaningful, transformative writing practice.
Somatic Informed PracticeWriting is as much a wellness practice as it is creative. Writers often experience shifts in their somatic bodies, and offering this practice helps to recalibrate the nervous system.
Expert FacilitationWorkshops are written and facilitated by a master level curriculum writer with over twenty-five years experience working with writers at every level. She is also South Carolina’s only AWA-certified affiliate trained at Amherst Writers & Artist founded by Pat Schneider at Amherst College in Amherst, MA.
Two Writing | Affirming Feedback SessionsWe require a minimum of two writing and feedback sessions to allow each writer an opportunity to read and/or offer feedback. This standard also helps nervous writers ease into the workshop.
Standard Southern Momentum Workshop Container
Regardless of which experience is chosen, every client can rest assured we will never cut corners or offer less than our highly regarded standard workshop container.
Set up in designated areaAn hour and thirty minutes before the workshop begins.
Introduction | AWA Guiding Principles | Check-InFirst 15 minutes of the workshop
Writing | Affirming Feedback Session One35 Minutes Total Time
Somatic Grounding10-Minutes
Writing | Affirming Feedback Session Two50 Minutes Total Time
Closing Somatic Practice10-Minutes Total Time
SOMO Creative Writing Workshops support organizations, retreat hosts, wellness practitioners, conference planners, and workplace leaders looking for meaningful creative writing workshops, workplace wellness activities, team-building experiences, and reflective professional development programs. The Add-On Writing Experience fits into retreats, conferences, wellness events, speaker series, staff appreciation days, leadership gatherings, and community programs. This experience gives participants time to pause, write, reflect, share, and connect more deeply and focus on the hosting event. The Workplace Wellness Creative Writing Experience is a half-day workplace wellness writing retreat designed for employee wellness programs, staff development days, leadership retreats, professional development workshops, team-building events, and organizational wellness initiatives. This experience uses guided creative writing, somatic practice, reflection, and artistic integration
Creative Writing Workshops for Workplace Wellness, Retreats, and Professional Development
The Add-On Writing Experience brings a guided creative writing workshop into a program, retreat, wellness offering, conference, community event, or gathering already in the planning stages.
Built from the SOMO Creative Writing Workshop Standard Container, this experience includes a minimum two-hour AWA-certified facilitated session, at least two prompt-driven writing and feedback sessions, one somatic practice, and a supportive space grounded in AWA’s Essential Practices.
Minimum of five participants with a maximum of eight.
Participants receive space to pause, write, reflect, share, and connect more deeply with the purpose of the gathering.
A $175 reservation payment is required to lock in the requested workshop date.
This payment is applied toward the 25% deposit required before work begins on the curated workshop experience. Final pricing is confirmed after the Community Collaboration Call™ and is based on group size, workshop duration, customization needs, materials, delivery format, and travel when applicable.
Choose How You Experience creative writing Workshops
The Workplace Wellness Creative Writing Experience is a half-day workplace wellness writing retreat designed for staff wellness programs, employee wellness days, leadership retreats, team-building events, professional development programs, and organizational wellness initiatives.
This experience is designed for groups of 15–25 participants and may be facilitated as a four-hour whole-group retreat or as two rotating wellness groups, depending on the organization’s schedule, space, and participant needs.
The half-day retreat includes the SOMO Creative Writing Workshop Standard Container, plus up to two additional guided writing and feedback sessions, an additional somatic guided memory integration practice, and one artistic integration wellness activity.
Pricing is based on a standard rate of $125 per participant, with a minimum of 15 participants and a maximum of 25 participants.
A $475 reservation payment is required to lock in the requested workshop date and will be applied toward the 25% deposit required before work begins on the curated workplace wellness writing retreat.
Final pricing is confirmed after the Community Collaboration Call™ and is based on group size, retreat structure, materials, delivery format, and travel when applicable.
The Community Group Creative Writing Wellness Workshop is designed for people who gather around memory, belonging, healing, celebration, service, creativity, and shared story.
This experience is available in three community-centered formats.
Social & Family Gatherings | 6–10 participants
Designed for milestone birthdays, family reunions, close-knit book clubs, women’s circles, friendship groups, and private gatherings where deep personal connection matters more than formal programming.
Wellness & Art Retreats | 10–15 participants
Designed for wellness retreats, creative retreats, art-centered gatherings, healing spaces, and small group experiences that need guided writing to support reflection, emotional safety, creativity, and meaningful integration.
Community & Non-Profit Groups | 12–20 participants
Designed for local libraries, church groups, youth organizations, advocacy groups, neighborhood associations, membership groups, and community-based organizations that want a structured creative writing wellness workshop for connection, reflection, and shared purpose.
Pricing is based on the structure, size, and purpose of the gathering.
A reservation payment of $575 is required to lock in the requested workshop date and will be applied toward the 25% deposit required before work begins on the curated community writing wellness workshop.
Final pricing is confirmed after the Community Collaboration Call™.
The Customizable Writing Workshop Experience is an 8-week writing and publishing pathway for groups ready to turn shared stories, lived experiences, professional insight, community history, or creative work into a tangible publication.
This experience is designed for 12–15 writers and requires a clear commitment of time, attention, and financial investment. Over eight weeks, participants write, share, revise, and prepare original work for a professionally published chapbook, collection, anthology, and/or audiobook.
This is not a one-time workshop. It is a guided creative and publishing process for groups ready to produce a physical body of work.
This pathway is a strong fit for professional associations, leadership cohorts, specialized wellness and support communities, creative retreat alumni, cultural groups, legacy families, historical preservation groups, and community organizations with a shared purpose or story to preserve.
The final publication may serve as a legacy project, advocacy tool, thought leadership asset, creative archive, or meaningful record of a community’s voice.
The 8-week experience includes facilitated writing sessions, guided feedback, revision support, editorial direction, contributor preparation, publication planning, and an all-inclusive publishing package.
Publishing support may include federal copyright and Library of Congress filing, ISBN purchase for all formats, cover design, formatting, distribution, royalties management, book ordering support, marketing and PR materials, and SOMO website placement.
Pricing begins with a 12-writer physical chapbook or collection package and is confirmed after the Community Collaboration Call™.
A reservation payment is required to begin the planning process and will be applied to the 25% deposit required before work begins on the curated writing and publication experience.
Community Writing Workshops, Legacy Writing Projects, and Publishing Experiences
SOMO Creative Writing Workshops support community groups, families, nonprofit organizations, libraries, churches, women’s circles, social groups, cultural organizations, and creative communities looking for guided writing workshops, storytelling workshops, writing wellness experiences, and publication-centered writing programs.
The Community Group Creative Writing Workshop fits into family gatherings, milestone celebrations, book clubs, neighborhood events, nonprofit programs, library programs, church groups, wellness circles, and community events where people can write, remember, reflect, connect, and share stories in a supportive and safe space.
The Customizable Writing Workshop Experience is an 2-6 month writing and publishing pathway for groups ready to create a professional chapbook, anthology, collection, or audiobook. This experience is designed for associations, leadership cohorts, retreat alumni, family legacy builders, support communities, cultural groups, and organizations with shared stories, lived experiences, professional insight, or community history to preserve through a tangible publication.
Writing is the most necessary luxury a person, organization, community, company can indulge in and know they are doing something wonderful for the whole of humanity.
~Vickey Finkley-Brown, M.Ed.
Next Steps: customise Your creative workshop experience
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Best for memoir and deep essays; prompts focus on digging beneath the surface to uncover your most hones and likely, most unspoken truths.
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Best for poetry and manifestos; prompts center on somatic energy, holy rage, and reclaiming the right to agency, pleasure and ease.
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Best for wellness and burnout recovery; prompts use sensory awareness and breath work to find stillness and rest in the present moment.
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Best for speculative inquiry, short fiction and self-determination; prompts invite you to script alternate endings, explore self-reinvention, and build a different future.
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Best for community and socially active groups, as well as families and nonprofits; prompts focus on writing as a witness to history, social justice, and lived cultural experiences.