Life Design for Writers: 6-Part Practice Series

What if your creative block wasn’t about willpower, but about flawed design?

Life Design for Writers is a 6-part guided practice series that helps you reconnect with your purpose, navigate resistance, and establish a sustainable writing rhythm that aligns with your real life. Led by certified life design facilitator Rachel Salamanca, this series blends reflection, creative experimentation, and somatic tools to support your writing life from the inside out.

Each session applies one of the six elements of the Mindful Method—a research-informed life design framework rooted in human-centered design, behavior change, and systems thinking.

This is not a class.

It’s a practice space—where creativity meets clarity, and your process meets your personhood.

Who It’s For

This series is for writers of all genres and levels who are:

• Feeling stuck, scattered, or uncertain about their creative path
• Burned out by productivity pressure or unclear expectations
• Ready to build a writing rhythm that works with their life, not against it
• Interested in using reflection, somatic tools, and optional AI support to unlock new creative energy
• Open to exploring how their internal world shapes their external voice

Whether you’re drafting a novel, writing a memoir, building a blog, or re-entering your writing life after a long pause, this series is designed to help you move forward with intention and flow.

What You’ll Walk Away With

• A renewed connection to your purpose and voice
• Clarity about what’s been blocking you—and how to move through it
• Tools to make progress without perfectionism
• A personalized writing rhythm that fits your season of life
• A more profound sense of empathy for yourself and your creative subject matter
• New ways to experiment, reflect, and evolve as a writer

Session Format

Each 90-minute session includes:

• Guided somatic check-in or reflection
• A simple life design exercise
• A solo reflection activity
• Group discussion + optional share-out
• A take-home practice or ritual

The vibe: calm, grounded, non-performative. You can come with messy notes and zero pressure. Cameras on or off. It’s your space.

The Six Sessions

Session 1: MINDSET – Make Space for What Matters

Slow down. Listen inward. Create space to hear your creative voice beneath the noise.

Session 2: UNDERSTAND – Surface the Patterns Shaping Your Practice

Explore how your beliefs, stories, and habits shape your writing process and self-concept as a writer.

Session 3: DEFINE – Work With What’s Real

Release perfectionism and design from where you are, not where you think you “should” be.

Session 4: CREATE – Experiment With Purpose

Use creative experiments and optional AI tools to explore, play, and unlock new momentum.

Session 5: MEASURE – Reflect Without Judgment

Develop tools to assess progress meaningfully—by energy, insight, and alignment, not just output.

Session 6: EVOLVE – Design a Rhythm That Supports You

Integrate what you’ve learned and create a flexible, compassionate writing rhythm that can grow with you.

Logistics

• Dates: Wednesday from September 10 to October 15
• Time: 7:30pm–9pm ET / 4:30pm–6pm PT / 6:30pm–8pm CT
• Location: Live on Zoom

Participation Notes:

• No prior writing experience is required—this is a practice series, not a critique group.
• Sharing is always optional. Participants choose their personal level of visibility and engagement.
• Activities are designed to foster internal clarity and external experimentation in a low-pressure environment.

BONUS RESOURCES

• Guided exercises for creative thinking
• Weekly reflection worksheets