Memoir Foundations
Who we are
The Memoir Arc
What is Memoir Foundations?
Your story is how you make sense of your world and how you connect emotionally with others. It is very much about how you create a living legacy and inspire others to know what is possible for them.
This programme is an invitation to find your story, the right story, find the courage to go on and write and publish it and make a difference in your world.
It is not crazy to want to change the world (however that looks to you) and make an impact. Imagine if you could inspire one other person to grow. How would that be? Start now and commit to this journey. Who knows who you will be one year from now?
Memoir Foundations is over Six Or Ten live workshop sessions
You’ll be in a Zoom room with other people feeling the same way that you do – a mix of yikes, am I going to do this and a pinch of what the hell am I doing?
Start With The Outcomes
Writing a memoir – pure story, or a hybrid where your lived experience meets hard-won wisdom – has never been about waiting until you have all the answers. It’s about shaping the messy, human truth of what changed you into something a reader can follow.
Over six weeks you’ll walk away with:
- Confidence that your story is worth telling
- Clarity about which book you’re actually writing — pure memoir, hybrid, or self-help woven with your experience
- Your intention, your Heart Project, and the one reader you’re writing for
- The memoir arc in your bones — the six movements your story already moves through
- Your golden thread — the theme your life keeps returning to
- A memory map, timeline and turning points — your whole life on the wall
- A Story Map and a chapter-by-chapter outline — the shape of your book, in your hands
- Your first 3,000 words chosen, and a plan you trust to write from
Start Anyway
So many people don’t write books because of ‘stuff’ in their heads, and if they took the time to plan it, most of the stuff would be dealt with. You will be provided you with some tools and a process to do that. It all becomes so much easier when it is planned and you tackle it in chunks. Think of a chunk like a square of chocolate and savour each one before taking another.
What’s Happens In Foundations – The Memoir Arc?
Week 2: The Memoir Arc in Depth
What You Leave With: A deep understanding of the Memoir Arc’s movements and how to use the raw-gathering method without triggering the inner critic.
Week 3: Your Safe Container & Theme
What You Leave With: A safe creative container for tough memories, and your golden thread in a single sentence.
Week 4: The Story Compass, Timeline & Story Map
What You Leave With: Your raw material sorted, turning points identified, and the master Story Map begun.
Week 5: Walk the Line & Map Your Chapters
What You Leave With: Somatic tracking of your arc translated directly into a structured chapter list.
Week 6: Chapter Summaries & Your First 3,000 Words
What You Leave With: The Blueprint fully finished – a complete book map you can write from.
Week 7 To 10 – Write With Me & Q&A
What we are doing: We will start with clearing the air with Q&A, a short meditation, intentions set and a writing session.
What you leave with: Questions answered and more of your chapter written,
What Else?
The Finer Details
- 6 weekly sessions on Zoom, £447. Early-bird £347. Payment plan available.
- 10 weekly sessions – the Arc plus the writing block, live on Zoom, £647. Early-bird £547.
- First cohort TBA
- Location: Online via Zoom (All teaching sessions recorded)
- Time: 18:00–19:30 UK / 19:00–20:30 CET / 1:00–2:30 PM US Eastern / 10:00–11:30 AM US Pacific
Things You’ll Need To Know
Going in without going under.
When you write about any kind of experience, your body will often sound alarms – you will possibly feel sick, your throat might be stuck, your tummy bloats – name your special bodily reaction. Then your good old mind will tell you other stories – of course it will. So the first thing you learn is how to step into a hard memory, take out the piece of truth you came for, and step back out – before it pulls you down. Small doses with a way back. You’ll build your own way of doing this before you ever write the difficult scene alone.
The secret keepers.
Every family has its rules about what’s not said, and you learned yours a long time ago. Writing your life means facing the fear of being seen, judged, or of breaking those rules – of what your sister will think, of what the dead might say or the plates they may throw at you. We look at the difference between telling the emotional truth and reciting the literal facts, and at how to be faithful to what happened without lighting a fire you can’t put out.
The dump and the book are not the same thing.
There’s writing that empties you out – the 3am spill into your journal that heals something just by being written and giving your body some reason to exhale. And there’s writing that reaches another human being. You need both, and they’re not the same thing. Foundations is where you learn to tell which one you’re doing, so the healing happens, and a reader can find their way in.
You won’t leave with a finished memoir. Nobody can give you that in six or ten weeks, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you something unreal. What you’ll have is a plan you can actually write from.
Is This For You?
If you love live workshops and bouncing ideas around with others – then that’s one hurdle jumped.
If you have a story, many stories or any kind of desire to find the story you want to share – then yes.
Memoir and the process I share takes you on a reflective journey, which aims to help you feel confident about the story you want to write. You will not just be going through the mechanics of designing an ordinary book. Instead, you are coming with me on a magical carpet ride through your life to find the one slice of life to share.
When you hold the physical book in your hands, you are no longer the one the story happened to – you are the author of it.
