The Intensive Project Mapping Service benefits clients who are amidst the heart and soul growth of launching a significant writing project or course of study involving writing. We look at big picture questions of methodology of your work, as well as how your writing practices will support your epistemologies (or ways of knowing) that are core to your writing project(s) and your identity.

The work is both intellectually and spiritually rigorous, and includes the conscious and unconscious labors of personal and cultural change, grief work, and ancestral healing. You receive supportive tools for a creative-contemplative writing method rooted in Dr. George's research longtime research and teaching of feminist writing practices.

 

Please note this offering is not copyediting or proofreading services (i.e. the nitty gritty of editing a final draft of a project). Rather, the service is a weaving of Dr. George's expertise in developmental editing, feminist social theory, and trauma-informed writing practices.

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Who is This Intensive for?

You are a good fit for the Intensive if you like feminist scholarly mentorship that touches your unconscious; nourishes your spiritual and creative practices; encourages the intersections of ancestral healing and cultural change; and deepens the intellectual toolkit you are using for your writing.

Our work together will expand your capacity to write in ways that account for interconnected systems of injustice (like white supremacy, ableism, patriarchy, colonialism, class domination, and climate change)—even as we grow our imagination, courage, and desire for writing toward a flourishing, just world for everyone.

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           The intensive process involves several steps before and after the session itself: the two days before and after your session are especially important for you to dedicate time and energy!
 

           The Zoom session is 100-minutes  for solo clients; 2.5-hours in duration for teams of two.

           About 24 hours after you pay/register for your November session, you will receive from Dr. George a 1-page Pre-Session Reflection Exercise with a list of questions. You also receive an audio series of 7 short reflections (120 minutes total) to respond to via audio memos before our session.
 

          48-hours before your Zoom session, please verbally submit the reflections from the Pre-Session Reflection Exercise over voice memos or video recordings to Dr. George, sent via What's App. (More instructions to be found on the form itself.) We begin a slow 2-day, exploratory, conversational, creative process together in the days before the Zoom session.
 

         Also 48-hours before your session, submit a collected writing sample that is all-together between 1500 and 9000 words. This equates to 5 double-spaced page to 30 double-spaced pages. (Double the page limit if in a team of two working on the same project). It is suggested you choose samples of your project AND pages from a journal or another piece of writing that intuitively feels alive. Messy drafts and different genre samples are encouraged and celebrated! (Claim your creativity, release perfectionism, put different kinds of writing in conversation.) Dr. George prepares at length using this collection of materials you submit to her in advance, so please make sure you meet the deadline!
 

         Gentle, strategic feedback and guidance on the writing samples is given within the live session itself. We frame our work with an understanding of how your project is part of a larger change/awakening on the planet—in pursuit of movements toward systems of care, flourishing, justice and accountability, love and liberation. To that end, we get to the deep heart of your project: What are you called to birth? What methodologies and epistemologies will support the birth? What writers/researchers do you need to be thinking with?  We also discuss the lived realities of protecting and nurturing your creative process amidst a world that exhausts our bodies and executive function.

 

       

       Clients are encouraged to follow-up with any clarifying questions, ideas, celebrations, epiphanies, etc. over voice memo for 48-hours after the live session in a conversational process.  Dr. George will deliver some final audio recordings and customized follow-up exercises for you. (Then, the intensive concludes and we cheer our good work.)

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10 Concepts We Might Explore in The Intensive Process

• What is the methodology pulsing as the intuitive heartbeat of your work?

• Where might you give yourself permission to make more connections and juxtapositions of "incongruent" ideas or categories?

• How can you root more deeply in the intellectual, creative, and spiritual lineage you are citing, building on, or intervening in? 

• Where might you deepen your analysis of interconnected systems and structures in order to make this project more hospitable and alive to more readers?

• What spiritual, ritualistic, or contemplative practices support your ways of knowing?

• Can you tap in more deeply to the role of the senses and body in writing and accessing subconscious knowledge?

• What research and reading would benefit your intellectual and spiritual toolkit, and what feminist foremothers might you want to read and be rooted in as you do your project?

• How is your inner identity work part of epistemological work (or, the ways of knowing woven into the project)?

• What would individual and collective healing look like for you as you journey in this project?

• How do you work with (not against) your uniquely embodied creative cycle, and how is that cycle different from what capitalism and patriarchy has taught us about how we produce something? What cycles are you tapped into—with your body, the land, the trees, the moon, the stars?

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