Where Writing Emerges from the Inside Out

Aspiring writers, break through the fear and anxiety holding back your creativity.

Experienced writers, discover how to hone your creative process freed from the pressure of expectations.

What is Sense Writing?

Sense Writing is a groundbreaking neuro-sensory approach to writing that anyone can use to unleash their creativity. Through your body and nervous system, you will …

Discover the links between movement, thought, and imagination.

Learn to work with your own nervous system to melt stubborn creative blocks.

Find ease in all the stages of writing, including rewriting.

 
 
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What Others Are Saying

  • Kent’s Sense Writing workshop challenged Struggle’s worth and reminded me of the original impulse that led me to make my life about writing.
    — Elephant Journal
  • Once I experienced this flow, I understood what my friend meant when she said Sense Writing changed everything for her.
    — Iva Radivojevic, Filmmaker, Guggenheim Recipient
  • The Sense Writing workshops access a profundity that other writing workshops have rarely attained at this level.
    — Raluca Albu, Editor, Bomb Magazine
  • Okay, what's a less dramatic way of telling you that this class has changed my life?
    — Olga Kreimer, Journalist
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 Teacher & Developer

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All workshops led by Sense Writing's Developer Madelyn Kent, former Lecturer in Creative Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Contact her with any questions.

Madelyn@sensewriting.org

Workshops are taught in English but you can write in any language. Die Workshop findet auf Englisch statt- die Teilnehmer können jedoch gerne auf Deutsch schreiben.

Sense Writing I and II in Berlin

Sense Writing I: Memory, Life Stories, and Fiction

For everyone.

Discover your love of writing, whether you’re a beginner or a long-time writer struggling with a creative block. In a supportive environment that integrates accessible physical and writing exercises, you will learn to: 

  • Bypass body and language patterns that inhibit writing

  • Uncover the connections between nervous system regulation and creative flow

  • Complete two pieces of memoir and/or fiction.

Find lightness in your body and mine your imagination, all while connecting to the core of your craft. Sense Writing frees you from the thoughts you think you “should” be thinking so you learn to create without anxiety. 


Sense Writing II: Making Connections

A 3-day immersive workshop open to anyone who’s taken Sense Writing I or the Sense Writing Course.

In this highly generative workshop, you will learn how to sustain larger pieces-- without the overwhelm. By working deeply with the more advanced neuroplastic learning principles, you’ll:

  • Learn to clarify your creative goals and work towards them effectively and with ease

  • Identify connections that are forming within your writing and build on them to create larger work in the genre of your choice

  • Hone your notions of structure and craft beyond what you might think is “good” or “bad” writing.

By the end of the workshop, writers will have several completed stories of non-fiction, fiction, or both, and the skills to build on them to create larger work.


Schedule

Sense Writing I

24 + 25 January

Saturday and Sunday, 12:00-16:30

Sense Writing II

30 January, 31 January, + 1 February

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 12:00-17:30

All workshops include breaks for lunch. Healthy snacks are provided.

Location

Cornus Studio, Gustav-Adolf-Straße 159, Berlin

Register

Registration is limited and workshops fill up, so please register early with a €100 deposit below.

Sense Writing I: €190

Sense Writing II: €340

Sign up in advance for Sense Writing I and II: €490 (saves €40)


Sense Writing I

Sense Writing II

Sense Writing I and II