2025 Classes at Coeur d' Alene Library Saturday, January 4 (10:30-11:30) The Decorated Journal - Power Words for 2025 Kick off the new year with a creative journaling workshop focused on intention setting. This program is designed to help you start the year with clarity and purpose by creating a personalized journal that captures your goals and ambitions. Creating a vision board with your journal can help identify and focus your goals. Learn how vision boards work and techniques for making your own with your journal. We will provide art supplies, mini journals, and inspiration to help you clarify and articulate your goals and intentions for the year.
Saturday, Jan 11 - April 12, 2025 (10:30-11:30) Our focus is resilience and the practice of gratitude journaling. Come ready to write. Cultivate a sense of calm and find clarity in your daily life. Discover insights, inspiration and empowerment with journaling as a spiritual practice. Don't miss out on this opportunity. Let's journal together!
Saturdays, February 22 - April 26 (10:30-11:30) Feeling stuck with writer's blah? Yes, this is a common feeling for writers with untold stories. We all have them. Stories of courage, hope and laughter. Uplifting stories can recharge your positive energy. Our book study will center on resilience and the practice of gratitude. This upbeat, supportive group will help you craft your own story of resilience. Plus, you'll learn the four truths of the wise storyteller archetype!
Saturday Feb 22 (10:30-11:30am) Heartwork Journaling | Expressive (1) | Reference material from Chicken Soup for the Soul by Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Mark Viktor Hansen. Speaking personal truth has such relevance these days. Your power words can lead to massive personal growth.
Saturday March 15 and March 22 (10:30-11:30am) Heartwork Journaling | Increase awareness with process writing (2) | Reference material The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown. Don't change who you are. Journal with process writing as your way into the hidden scripts that influence your decisions. If you gently observe your thoughts and continuously ask yourself, “Why do I think that?” you will begin to uncover a narrative that has been on repeat in your life. Write down every answer as you continue going deeper into the question.
Saturday April 26 (10:30-11:30am) Writing Down Your Soul Book Study Journaling gratitude and book study focused on courage and resilience.
2024 Writers Immersion Workshops at Coeur d' Alene Library
January 27th at 10:30am-12:30pm - Carl Jung: Engaged Journaling With Active Imagination
February 10th at 10:30am-12:30pm - Memoir: Writing a Story of Personal Transformation
March 23rd at 10:30am-12:30pm - The Archetypal Artist: 7 Mythic Structures for Any Genre
April 27th at 10:30am-12:30pm - Memoir: Find Your Voice, Reclaim Your Power
May 4th at 1:00pm-2:30pm - Peace Walk and Writing Meditation. Write. Pause. Thrive.
May 11th at 10:30am-12:30pm - Writing in Flow: 13 Centering Techniques to Find Joy Every Day
June 22nd at 10:30am-12:30pm - Personal Narrative: Stories of Redemption, Identity & Transformation
Sep 28th at 10:30-11:30am - Memoir: How Engaged Journaling Leads to Your Authentic Story (meets in the Community Room)
Oct 7th at 6:30pm - Online Journaling as a Spiritual Practice a 7-week Zoom series through November 18, 2024
Oct 12th, Nov 9th, Dec 14th at 10:30-11:30am - Journaling Toward Your Authentic Self (2nd Saturday meets in the Nelson Room)
Oct 26th - Metastory: Journaling That Triggers Epiphany, Action, and Change (meets in the Community Room)
Nov 23rd - 5 Advanced Journal Techniques To Finish Your Memoir (meets in the Community Room)
Dec 14th - Journaling Together - Journaling Together (Ages 16+) – Saturday, December 14 (10:30 am) Join us in the Nelson room every second Saturday of the month with your journal. Come ready to relax, open your journal, and write. Kim E. Morgan will use self-awareness activities, mindfulness practices, and expressive writing to help you express your most authentic self. Guided journal work will give you skills that clear mental chatter, enhance awareness, and deepen access to the imagination. Let’s journal together toward your authentic self.
Jan 11/Feb 8, 20205 Journaling Gratitude. Our focus is resilience and the practice of gratitude. Come ready to write. Cultivate a sense of calm and find clarity in your daily life. Discover insights, inspiration and empowerment with journaling as a spiritual practice. Don't miss out on this opportunity. Let's journal together!
Writing in Flow taught by Kim E. Morgan, MAT, MA is a 3-part series held at Coeur d' Alene Library. We focus on literary themes and offer a practical approach to Carl Jung's Active Imagination process. This group coaching program is designed for creative people, not only for genre writers. Hands-on activities center on expressive writing, meditations, and literary tutorials. You can change overwhelm into overflowing joy! Get out of your comfort zone with journaling, dream work, authentic movement, haiku, mandala drawing and other creative media for personal transformation. Adult play stations are a new feature at the Writers Immersion Workshops. Adult play can relieve stress and improve overall health and well-being. 2023 Immersion Workshops For Mindful Writers
May 6 at 1-2:00pm Peace Walk at the Labyrinth, 4465 N 15th St, Coeur d'Alene
May 20 at 1-2:00pm Heart-Centered Gratitude NIC’s Rose Garden
May 27 at 1-2:00pm Poetry Path to Kindness NIC’s Rose Garden
2023 Immersion Training For Women Only at Elmer's Restaurant Musings and Meditations on the Feminine Principle
June 3rd 3:00pm Women, Myth And The Feminine Principle: An Evolving Idea
June 10th 3:00pm Musings On The Weaving Woman Archetype And Soul Making
June 17th 3:00pm The Archetypal Great Mother In Mythology And Antiquity
2023 Writers Immersion Workshops at Coeur d' Alene Library
September 2nd at 2-3:30pm - Re-Vision Your Narrative Into a Compelling Memoir
September 9th at 2-3:30pm - Archetypal Motifs: Demystify the Myth of Writer's Block
September 23rd at 2-3:30pm - 7 Narrative Structures All Storytellers Should Know
October 7th at 2-3:30pm - Carl Jung's Red Book and Understanding Active Imagination
October 28th at 10:30am-12:30pm Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plot Your Personal Narrative
November 25th at 10:30am-12:30pm Find Your Muse, Unblock Your Creative Flow
December 30th at 10:30am-12:30pm Write Of Passage: 5 Creative Ways To Retell Your Story
Taught by Kim E. Morgan workshops focus on key elements of literary themes. The study of personal mythology deepens narrative storytelling and more. Hands-on group activities centered on journaling, writing meditations and mini-lessons guide you in developing your craft and sparking your inspiration.
This program is designed for creative people, not only for genre writers. You'll explore the power of your personal mythos with a daily practice and long-term project. We use self-awareness activities and exercises, mindfulness practice and expressive writing. Whatever your interest, you'll discover the heart of your story and learn from your mythic path.
2020 Personal Mythos & the Wild Woman Archetype Saturdays, Jan 18, Jan 25, and Feb 29, 2020 at 1-2:30pm
Transformative writing is making sense of your experience: memories, events, aspirations, hopeful imaginings. Knowing your personal mythos gives you a deeper connection, or the chance to reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary woman that you are and to see the world clearly and what you want for your life.
2019 Write-to-Publish Wednesdays, August 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th at 6:00-7:30 p.m. with a Q & A follow-up at Hayden Library. Kim E. Morgan presents a four-week series of high impact, how-to classes designed for those wishing to advance their skills as beginning writers and published professionals
August 7 Write-to-Publish the 90-Day Ebook This is a short, intensive how-to session to refine any high-concept, reboot your creative process, and sprint to the finish line. Believe you can and you will publish a Kindle edition ebook in 90 days.
August 14 The Storyteller’s Camera Filmmakers use visual storytelling that can be adapted to creative writing. What event or moment gets your story rolling? Who is the narrator? How close do you want the reader to get to the heat of a burning house or inside the bedroom? As writers, we can learn how to create stunning scenes with the camera angle.
August 21 Magic in the Art of Storytelling The best writers make pictures with words, but what happens to magic in a world gone digital? The master storyteller combines narrative skills with the fictive-dream. This class takes a closer look at how magical thinking inspires a sense of wonder in your audience.
August 28 Still Writing: the 60-Second Challenge Beyond methods and craft, your writing improves through instinct, discipline, risk-taking, and tenacity. Resilience in writing is a conscious act. Come away from this class with the 60-second challenge to keep you writing.
2018 Core Writing Takes You to the Most Unexpected and Wonderful Places "Write Now!" With Kim Morgan is a four-week series of literary workshops: Wednesdays, August 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd at 6:00-7:30 p.m. with a Q & A follow-up
August 1st Write-to-Publish You will take away the key elements for the Self-Publisher. Find inspiration and breathe life into your writing. You can remove "finish my book" from your bucket list this year! Half of this session is Getting Inspired to Start or Jumpstart Your Writing.
August 8th Four Truths of the Storyteller We are born storytellers. Filmmakers in the business look for compelling stories that touch the audience. You will leave this class with the four truths and a clear sense of how to tap into the power of ‘you.’
August 15th The Write Way Home Authenticity is a crucial quality of the storyteller. The spirit of great stories is found in being true to yourself. The defining moments of life give rise to your voice. Learn how your personal narrative informs your professional writing.
August 22nd The Write Season and Reason to Write Creative people switch genres all the time. But how do you stay inspired to write and write what inspires others? Learn to open new pathways of creativity and imagination to keep writing beyond this series.
2017 Storytelling for the Soul a four-week series of Literary Workshops Tuesdays, July 11th, July 18th, July 25th & August 1st a?t 6:00-8:00 p.m. with a Q & A follow-up at Hayden Library
July 11th - Write From the Heart July 18th - The Soul of Creative Writing July 25th - The Language of Inspiration Aug 1st - The Write Way to Core Writing
A Celebration will be held July 11th for those who took the 2016 Writing Challenge to Get Published in 12 months! Contact Kim Morgan for details.
2016 Past Series “Write Now!” workshop topics "Write Now!" is a four-week series of Literary Workshops Hayden Library: 4 Tuesdays July 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th. Post Falls Library: 4 Mondays August 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd.
#1 Session: Writing That Gets Published. Creative people switch genres all the time. Mix it up with well-crafted fiction, literary nonfiction and cross-genre writing. Poetry, memoir, historical romance, paranormal, mystery, science fiction. It all works. Come learn how. You got this!
#2 Session: The Write Tools: Write On Till Dawn. Keep those creative juices flowing until your manuscript or article is published. You'll learn the 10 Most Important Questions to ask your characters. Get out of your head, and let your characters write an unforgettable ending to your book.
#3 Session: Write On Track with a Bestselling Plot. Learn to write secrets and suspense into your fiction. Don't miss getting the 29 Plot Templates. You will leave this session with mastery of the one-sentence, one-line pitch for your novel. You won't be disappointed.
#4 Session: From Draft To Published Novel: 3 Writing Superpowers Every Author Needs. Express your brilliance and write what matters most. Discover that sweet spot where your talents, passions and purpose merge into sweet obsession and successful writing. You can remove "finish my book" as a New Year's resolution and gift yourself with authorship this year!
Write-to-Publish: Workshops at Hayden Library November 12th at 10:00-11:00 a.m. December 10th at 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Do you want to join a writing group and self-publish? Are you tired of rejection letters? Write-to-Publish is a relaxed, informal group of writers helping writers. This is not peer editing or classroom instruction. Come brainstorm ideas to revive your manuscript. Learn the "how-to" steps to self-publishing. Get published this year. What are you waiting for?
Topics from 2014-2015 Creative Writing for Emerging Voices
June 11th Fire Up Your Fiction: Keep Your Momentum
June 25th Unearthing Your Material: Find the Real Story
July 9th Creative Writing Techniques: Essential Elements of Narration
July 23rd Honing Your Craft: The Power of Vision and Voice
2015 Creative Writing for Emerging Voices
June 9th The Creative Seed: Imagination on the Page
June 23rd The Art of Forgotten Things: Find Your Genre
July 7th The Way of Story: Follow Your Muse
July 21st Honing Your Craft: Voice, Vision and Re-Vision
We celebrate the most human part of ourselves with family. As humans we form bonds sharing ourselves. Our story. Our ancestors' stories. We can write our story as a memoir. We can write our ancestors' stories as biographies. A biography is the story of a life: the term implies that the writer will capture the essential elements of that life. A memoir makes no pretense of replicating a whole life. Snippets of writing, short vignettes, poetry can lead to longer compositions, flash fiction, short stories, a novella. One of the important skills of memoir writing is the selection of the theme or themes that will bind the work together.