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Experiments with Writing Craft
Experiments with Writing Craft

Join Frankie & the Fifth Brain Collective on Monday, April 21st for a free live webinar, Experiments with Writing Craft!

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FREE Writing Webinar: Getting Found
FREE Writing Webinar: Getting Found
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Fruit Cup Free Writing Sprint Thursday Nights with Mark Pettis!
Fruit Cup Free Writing Sprint Thursday Nights with Mark Pettis!

Join Fruit Cup Writing Sprint with Mark Pettis for a free virtual hour-long writing session on Thursday Nights! Plus time to chat about writing and writing life afterwards.

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Little Bits Writing Classes - Fall 2024
Little Bits Writing Classes - Fall 2024

Join Frankie for a series of four one-night-only workshops focused on craft!

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Little Bits Writing Class!
Little Bits Writing Class!
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WANT TO BRING THE FIFTH BRAIN COLLECTIVE TO YOU?

Readings, Panels, Conversations, Workshops, & more - online and in person!

NEED A GUEST SPEAKER?

CHOOSE FROM ONE OF THESE TOPICS:

  • How to Bend Time in the Workplace

    There Is No One Path: Practice Reframing Obstacles

    Personal Obsessions: Ways to Bring Your Whole Self to the Table

  • Collaboration: Personal and Collective Imagination Techniques

    Enhance the Team by Getting to Know Your Knowledge Banks

  • Everyone Is Born Creative: How Do You Get It Back?

    Getting Lost: How to Learn from the Uncomfortable Moments in Creativity and Work

WRITING WORKSHOP EXAMPLES

  • This workshop addresses everyone’s right to engage in creativity. Participants will be guided through an explanation of their own fifth brains (muse/intuition), leading us to the material in their imaginations. Through guided prompts, participants will embrace access to their material and find out what obstructs their creativity. Participants can respond in any genre and beginners are welcome.

  • This workshop addresses the inherent value of creative work for activists. Participants will be guided to examine their personal knowledge banks and histories and generate writing based on specific moments that shaped their values. Together, the group will examine symbols buried in the work and there will be time for optional sharing. Participants can respond in any genre and beginners are welcome.

  • This workshop harnesses the inherent value of memory and imagination for spiritual leadership. Participants will bring concepts they want to address. Next, the workshop will move into personal knowledge banks and histories, trusting guided methods to find stories that will illustrate these concepts. Guided prompts will develop connections and texture for sermon preparation, lectures, pastoral messages, and meditations.

  • This workshop uncovers the writer’s biggest fears as a starting place for writing. Each human has rational and irrational fears about life, writing, bodies, the future, etc. Through generative exercises, sharing, wincing, and laughing, this workshop will lead to a better understanding of each participant’s fears and generative new material. (Participants can respond in any genre and beginners are welcome.)

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EVENTS & WORKSHOPS

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DENVER, CO

Reading with Front Range Writers

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FORT COLLINS, CO

January 9, 2024

Why Make That? A Conversation on Creativity

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March 2, 2024

Historic 4th Ave Coalition Space

Artistic Confidence Event with Kimi Eisele, Eric Aldrich, & Molly McCloy

TUCSON, AZ

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ARTISTIC CONFIDENCE TOUR

East Coast

January 2024

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