Permission to Write - Mini Retreat

Permission to Write — A One‑Day Mini Retreat for Your Creative Unfolding

If you’ve been circling around a writing project, starting, stopping, doubting, or dreaming this retreat invites you to finally exhale and step into a space where your creative voice is taken seriously.

Permission to Write is a one‑day immersive experience designed to help you understand what’s really getting in the way of your writing. Not the surface excuses, but the deeper stories, myths, and inherited messages that quietly shape your creative life.

What We Explore

• The myths of creativity that keep you stuck

• Your personal ‘why’ - the deeper reasons you feel called to write and the role writing plays in your life.

• The internal messages you’ve absorbed about what it means to be a writer:

  • Only gifted people get to call themselves writers.

  • Writing is indulgent, unrealistic, or not for people like me.

  • It’s selfish to spend time on this.

  • I'm a not good enough beginner

• Your values - the strengths, principles, and inner resources you can draw on to support your writing practice.

What To Bring

• A notebook and pen

• Laptop (charged)

• A packed lunch

What You’ll Leave With

• A clearer understanding of what’s been holding you back

• A renewed sense of creative permission

• Practical next steps to get momentum on your writing project

• A deeper connection to your identity as a writer

• New connections with people who understand the creative path

Why This Retreat Matters

Writing isn’t just about producing words. It’s about claiming space for your voice, your ideas, and your inner world.

When you understand the beliefs shaping your creative behaviour, you can finally choose which ones to keep and which ones to release.

This retreat gives you the time, support, and reflective space to step into your writing life with more confidence, clarity, and compassion.

If you’re ready to move from hesitation to action, from self‑doubt to self‑permission, this day is for you. This is a place to remember why you wanted to write in the first place.

Investment

$243.00 + $6.44 booking fee

100% Refund available until Friday 10 April 2026.

Hosted By

Hosted by AE Grantham, a social worker who specialises in using writing as a therapeutic tool and is a lifelong lover of all things literary. AE brings deep experience in creating safe, trauma‑aware, and strength‑based group spaces where creativity can unfold without pressure or judgement. She is a trainer for Lifeline and Gender and Disaster, and currently works in equity and diversity within the education sector. Her facilitation style is warm, grounded, and supportive, offering participants a space where their voices and stories are genuinely welcomed.