NONFICTION: QUARTERLY GAINS
What is Group Coaching?
In Group Coaching, a collective of writers come together to share a journey. It differs from a workshop or classroom experience in that the coach guides the journey and ensures progress toward the end goal. The experience is responsive to the needs and desires of the collective. (In a classroom, the teacher has set a curriculum before even meeting her students, so while the best teachers are responsive, the students do not help to design their experience.)
Group Coaching is goal driven. Our goals:
- To demonstrate gains in writing knowledge and skill.
- To make appreciable progress on your personal, professional goal identified at the beginning of the quarter.
- To further your knowledge and handling of nonfiction narrative craft, including:
- structure
- flow of ideas & information
- authority
- persona & voice
- audience
- writer’s goal & reader’s goal
- the takeaway – a new way to think of the CTA
- intent, content, & context
- and more.
- To access the expertise and guidance of a writing expert in a forum that provides the opportunity to advance your unique project with the aid of purpose, deadlines, and accountability.
- To write your narrative project with the ongoing support of both your coach and your peers in a small group space.
- To engage in a model of group learning with carefully selected, competent peers in which no one is a “passive student” but an active member of a collective.
- To develop a core network of fellow writers for mutual support long after the coaching session ends.
What will this journey include?
- Drafting your project – how-to, self help, blog posts, email chains, etc.
- Exploratory and developmental writing
- drafting
- revising
- Small group with individualized attention (4-10 people)
- Two 3-hour live sessions/month
- Recordings available after each call
- Each session will have a focus and structure
- Discussion on the specifics of each writer’s project
- Prepare a reading assignment and lead discussion on a rotating basis
- Peer-to-peer accountability partnership
- 1 half hour video call per month and 1 email check in, minimum.
- Office hours and/or email access to me between calls
- Sharing of work for discussion during live calls
- Providing verbal feedback to peers during live calls
- Workshopping opportunity
- Reading and offering feedback on peer work
- Receiving feedback from peers
Schedule of Live Calls
Our journey together will begin in May 2022 and run through July 2022.
Coaching sessions will be held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. See below.
Coaching will be done over Zoom. Attendance at each session is mandatory. 2:00 – 5:00 Central (check your time zone).
First Quarter is closed.
February 1, 15
March 1, 15
April 5, 19
Second quarter dates
May 3, 17
June 7, 21
July 5, 19
Third quarter dates
September 6, 20
October 4, 18
November 1, 15
First Quarter is CLOSED
Are you ready to take your writing to the next…next…next level in 2022?
Fill out the application below. Alida will be in touch with you. You may be asked to supply a writing sample before being offered a spot in the upcoming coaching session.
Cost for quarterly coaching: $699
- $600 paid in full (save $99)
- $233 paid monthly
Payments will be invoiced and may be paid by PayPal, Stripe, or check. Service fees apply.
