> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.chudgar.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fall 2023 Inner Community Writing Workshops - URL: https://www.chudgar.com/fall-2023-icww/ - Published: 2023-10-25T22:21:31.000Z - Updated: 2023-12-03T17:26:04.000Z - Description: The first-ever Inner Community Writing Workshops are meeting in November and December of 2023. Here’s what participants need to know. - Author: Ash Chudgar - Tags: Groups, Partswork, Writing, Practice # Our goals These Workshops let us use writing to explore our inner multiplicity. We have three goals: - **🙌 To support each other’s writing practice**, - **🛠️ To develop our craft**, and - **❤️‍🔥 To pursue healing and liberation in community.** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bb/50/bb504411-a080-44c6-becf-7f48885a9e1c/content/images/2023/11/claret-to-ocher.png) ## Quick links ****👋** [****Weekly Workshops**](#workshops)****.** Times, Zoom link, folders, format ****📝** [****Writing for the week**](#writing)****.** Some gentle guidelines for your practice ****💬** [****Preparing for your Workshop**](#prep)****.** How to read other folks’ writing ****💡**[****Soft prompts**](#schedule)****.** A new suggestion for your writing every week # 👋 Weekly Workshops ## Times, Zoom link, and writing folders We meet every week over Zoom ([here’s the link](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2578069543?ref=chudgar.com)) in two Workshops: - **Thursdays** at 12pm Central (10am Pacific), with writing shared on Mondays in [this folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13dqZ3zin4PYWkoI9RZJYYT01ZIQ8kZD6?usp=sharing&ref=chudgar.com). - **Sundays** at 10am Central (8am Pacific), with writing shared on Thursdays in [this folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CWmYezLi2mZxBlT3NtlpCWxMQLovHBJS?usp=sharing&ref=chudgar.com). ## Workshop format In our hour together, each of us will answer these three questions: 1. **What was it like for your systems to write and share what you did this week?** We’ll all answer that question, one after the other, passing to the next person. The order in which we speak this time is the order we’ll keep for the next question. 2. For each person’s writing, in the same order: **What *one to three* specific features of this writing interested your system?** These are the features you noticed [as you prepared](#prep). 3. As we wrap up: **What does your inner world want or need from your writing in the coming week?** This final question sets us up for the writing we’ll do next. # 📝 Writing for the week Every week, I’ll give a “soft prompt” for our weekly writing [right here](#schedule). Your system will decide how to interpret the prompt in language. Here are some guidelines: - **The deadline for sharing is soft.** The intention here to give all of us *two full days* to read and interact with everybody else’s writing. If you aren’t able to share your work by the appointed time, feel free to share it anyway, any time you like before we meet. Those of us who have a chance to read and comment on late-arriving work are certainly welcome to do so (and likely will), but we may not devote any Workshop time to discussing writing that came in after the deadline. - Limit your weekly writing to **1,000 words or less**. (We may sometimes agree informally to some other limitation on a given week, but this is the general rule.) - There’s no need for content warnings, but you can certainly **give some direction** at the top of your writing if there’s anything other participants’ systems should know. (“Might be scary, so maybe don’t read before bed,” for example.) - You can **share your writing** to your group’s folder in three ways: put a Google Doc in the folder, drag a Word document into the folder, or email it to me and I’ll share it for you. # 💬 Preparing for your Workshop Before our weekly Workshop meeting, we all read, interact with, and reflect on each other’s writing, with the healing and liberation of all systems in mind. Some gentle guidance: - Read in whatever way is **most comfortable** for your system, printed out or on the screen. (To print a Google Doc, just open it up and then select File > Print.) - If you read on screen, feel free to **comment directly** on someone’s writing. (To comment in Google Docs, highlight the text that interests you: you’ll see a little prompt to add a comment on the right. You can also highlight text, then select Insert > Comment.) - As you read and ponder, remember: this group is about exploration, not critique or “improvement.” A rule of thumb: **focus on how your system reacts to the writing *as it is***, rather than offering suggestions for how the writing could be different. - Let your system’s reactions help you **identify *one to three specific features* of each person’s writing** that you’d like to tell them about when we meet. - Those can be anything: a specific word or phrase, a notable stylistic choice, an interesting metaphor, a moment of recognition, a new question you have now that you didn’t know how to ask before. - You might like to jot those things down as you go (whatever “jotting” means to you) so you can remember your initial reactions clearly during the Workshop. # 💡Soft prompts We’ll decide on weekly prompts as we go, and I’ll update this schedule accordingly. #### Week 1: Introductions Thursday, November 2 / Sunday, November 5 Soft prompt: ****Introduce your inner world to the rest of us**, whatever that means to you. - ****Thursday group**, please share your writing on Monday, October 30 - ****Sunday group**, please share your writing on Thursday, November 2 #### Week 2: What was missing Workshops Thursday, November 9 / Sunday, November 12 Soft prompt: Re-read your introduction from last week, asking: What **isn’t* included here? Who’s part of my inner world, but didn’t get introduced? What truths remained unspoken? What presences were absent? ****This week, write what was missing.** - ****Thursday group**, please share your writing on Monday, November 6 - ****Sunday group**, please share your writing on Thursday, November 9 #### Week 3: Giving your system whatever it needs Workshops Thursday, November 16 / Sunday, November 19 Soft prompt: After two weeks’ attention to your inner world in writing, the various inhabitants of your internal community may have opinions about what your writing can or should accomplish for them. ****This week, use your writing to give your system whatever it needs.** - ****Thursday group**, please share your writing on Monday, November 13 - ****Sunday group**, please share your writing on Thursday, November 16 #### Week 4: Writing “about” something particular Because of Thanksgiving, the Thursday group will miss a week. Our next meetings are Sunday, November 26 / Thursday, November 30 Soft prompt: Sometimes we just write whatever arises. Other times, our inner worlds want to write **about* something in particular. ****This week, write** ***about** **something.** Define “about” and “something” however you like. - ****Sunday group**, please share your writing on Thursday, November 23 - ****Thursday group**, pleas share your writing on Monday, November 27 #### Week 5: Granting permission, removing limits Workshops Sunday, December 3 / Thursday, December 7 Soft prompt: Like the world outside us, our inner worlds have rules and limits. Some of them serve important or even essential functions. Others may have outlived their usefulness; others may serve no apparent purpose. ****This week, write in a way that grants permission to break a rule or removes a limit.** - ****Sunday group**, please share your writing on Thursday, November 30 - ****Thursday group**, please share your writing on Monday, December 4 #### Week 6: Closing by letting go Workshops Sunday, December 10 / Thursday, December 14 Soft prompt: As a group, we’ve held on to each other for the past six weeks; this week, we will let each other go. The inhabitants of our inner worlds sometimes need to let go, too — of burdens, beliefs, ideas, containers, dreams, practices, people. ****For our last meeting as a group, write in a way that lets something go.** - ****Sunday group**, please share your writing on Thursday, December 7 - ****Thursday group**, please share your writing on Monday, December 11 ### Any questions? Just get in touch with Ash. And thank you very much for being part of this experiment in writing community!