Tidepools: A Collaborative Mentorship

w/ Janice Lee & Lidia Yuknavitch
(& the Corporeal Writing Squad)

January - December 2025

(Applications have closed)

Description:

A year-long mentorship shoal with Janice Lee and Lidia Yuknavitch facilitating collective collaboration from the cohort. This community gathering will explore creative practice and process, giving participants the opportunity to delve deeper into a pre-existing project calling to be resuscitated or transformed, or to develop a new long-form project that has been tickling your imagination. Either way, we will collaborate through community ritual, meditation, and writing portals. We’ll be doing creative rituals and ceremonies together, we’ll write together, we’ll generate new writing, and coax out stories living beneath the stories already on the page.

Participants:

The entire cohort will be a maximum of 16 participants, split into two groups of 8 for generative feedback sessions.

Structure:

• One 2-hour gathering each month (with the entire cohort) for exploring the monthly theme, generative writing portals, meditation, and ritual. (There will be special guests, support from the Corporeal Writing Squad, plus, participants will have the optional opportunity of sharing knowledge, facilitating portals or activities, and collaborating.)

• One 2-hour generative feedback session each month in the smaller group of eight (with Lidia or Janice). Four participants each month will submit 1 page of writing, and the group will help find generative revision strategies. (Each participant will essentially have the opportunity to submit 1 page of writing every other month, for a total of 5 submissions.) 

• One 1-hour book or film discussion every other month. We will choose these texts, readings, films, etc. as a group at the beginning of the year.

• One 1-hour office hours session / informal conversation session every other month to build community, have organic conversation, and hang out.

• One half-hour 1-on-1 mentoring session/meeting during the year with Lidia or Janice to delve deeper into your work, process, questions, etc.

• Second Body Partner - You’ll be assigned a second body partner who will act as your designated buddy on this journey. Think: check-in buddy, accountability partner, someone you can count on emotionally, or trade writing with. You and your partner will discuss what your needs and desires are, how often you want to check in, and best way to contact each other. We will switch partners a few times throughout the year so you can make different connections and build relationships.

• Tidepools Workbook - You’ll get a copy of Corporeal Writing’s brand new (yet-to-be-released) Tidepools Workbook, a workbook of portals for resuscitating and transforming your writing, which we’ll use as a guidebook throughout the year.

• Format: All gatherings and meetings will take place via Zoom. All sessions will be recorded in case you need to miss one. We’ll also be using Mighty Networks, our online platform, for announcements, staying in touch between meetings, sharing work, and staying organized.

Schedule:

• Monthly gatherings will take place from 12-2pm Pacific (3-5PM Eastern) on the following Sundays: January 12, February 9, March 9, April 13, May 18, June 8, July 13, August 10, September 14, October 12, November 9, December 7

• Generative Feedback sessions will take place from 12-2pm Pacific (3-5PM Eastern) on the following Thursdays: February 27, March 27, April 24, May 29, June 26, July 31, August 28, September 11, October 30, November 20

• Book/Film Discussions & Office Hours will take place from 12-1pm Pacific (3-4PM Eastern) on the following Thursdays: February 20, March 20, April 17, May 22, June 19, July 24, August 21, September 18, October 23, November 13

• Dates subject to change with advance notice. Additional/optional gatherings may be scheduled TBA.

Pricing:

Monthly payments: $350 / month (total of $4200)

• You’ll be put into a payment plan of $350 / month. If extenuating circumstances arise and you need to drop out of the program for any reason, we will not be able to refund past month payments.

Single payment in advance: $3500

• This is a discounted rate for those who are able to pay the entire sum of $3500 before the program start date.  If extenuating circumstances arise and you need to drop out of the program for any reason, we will not be able to refund this amount, but we can offer compensation in the form of credit, to be applied to any other Corporeal Writing programming and offerings.

Please fill out the form below to apply and we will be in touch soon! (Note: If accepted, you will not submit payment through our site. Our Navigator Daniel will invoice you directly.)

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