Meet the Writer Within
Our courses and retreats combine guided meditation, energy healing, and freewriting to help you develop greater trust in your intuitive process and unlock inspiration for new and existing projects.
The courses include readings from literature, writing prompts, guiding ideas, and community support. Together, we are elevating our energy and refining our creative work so that it becomes a needed medicine for personal, ancestral, and cultural healing.
Here are our upcoming offerings.
with Erica Nunnally
of Ancestral Medicine
8 Weeks on Mondays
January 11- March 1, 2027
By affirming that our ancestors can be active participants in our lives and creations, we open ourselves to channel the poems, essays, and stories that we most need to write—both to understand the past and to live more fully in the present. In this eight week course, you’ll develop lasting ancestral connections and build a foundation for spirit-infused writing practices that endure beyond the time of the course. Co-taught with Ancestral Medicine Practitioner Erica Nunnally, with a support call held by Catherine M. Dunne.
Learn about the curriculum and Register HERE.
our Fall 2026 LIVE course
WRITING IN THE MATRIARCHY
is Underway and now closed
A recorded Download will be available for sale in December
This is an 8-week online course
combining meditation and freewriting
DESIGNED to heal the past and channel a new future
We are living at the violent end of patriarchy, and it is more important than ever to find non-hierarchical ways of creating, channeling insight, finding community, and writing our stories. This course will combine guided meditation, freewriting, readings, and workshops designed to clear out old programming and help you to claim your gifts and wisdom. Our supportive community will validate your intuition and honor your heart. And Rachel Webster’s visionary instruction and guided meditations will help you to clear your energy and open yourself to new inspiration. This process works for both beginning and experienced writers.
Weekly lessons will be accompanied by optional assignments and curated readings by matriarchal writers including Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, bell hooks, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and Annie Ernaux.
We will be talking about the embodied experience of being a woman — in our own lives and in history— and holding great tenderness and respect for everyone’s personal story and cultural context. We welcome participants of all ethnicities, identities, and generations, including women, queer women, trans folks, anyone uncomfortable being in a single gender, and men who are grieving the patriarchy’s violences and eager to learn more relational ways of writing and creating.
GIVE Meditative Writing A TRY
About your instructor
Rachel Jamison Webster is an award-winning author and professor of creative writing. She has taught at Northwestern University for 20 years, and has published five books and dozens of essays, poems, and articles. Her book of ancestral nonfiction Benjamin Banneker and Us was named a “Best Book of 2023” by The New Yorker and was an “Editor’s Pick” by The New York Times. Rachel’s book of poetry, Mary is a River, was written in the voice of Mary Magdalene and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her book The Sea Came Up & Drowned combines her collages and “mined” erasure poems to meditate on our extractive relationship to the earth. It has been turned into a choral symphony that will be performed by Donald Nally’s ensemble The Crossing in cities throughout the U.S. and globally in 2026.
Rachel has also practiced meditation for more than 20 years. She combines these practices in her teaching.
Read more about Rachel and her process here.
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RECORDINGS
Some of our courses are available to purchase as recordings and resources. See what we offer here.
Retreats
Join me in person for retreats that combine creative writing instruction with meditative practices designed to help you clear stagnant energy and increase your intuition, spiritual clarity, and connection with the earth and ancestors.