• What is the focus of your energy?
• Use the past as a tool to fully experience the present
• Find the gift and the lesson in the moment
• Honor each moment

Week 2: Finding Balance

• Stop and become more aware of what is here, now
• The key to rebalancing is to listen and observe, to pay attention
• As you express yourself you are honoring your own individual uniqueness

Week 3: Movement: Encouraging Growth

• Life is movement
• Movement teaches us about ourselves
• One change opens the door to another, inviting something new in each time
• Embracing the ebb and flow of our lives is fundamental for our sense of purpose
• Growth means embracing every moment

Week 4: Awareness: Enlarging your Vision

• 3 kinds of visual images: what we observe, what we imagine and what we create
• Discovering ourselves, appreciating what makes us uniquely us
• You are the only person to “see” the world the way you do

• Writing Topic – 3 choices: turning point in your life, hobby and accomplishments
• Writing pointers 1-4

Week 2: Finding the facts

• Writing Focus: Your birth
• Writing pointers 5-8

Week 3: Jogging your memory

• Writing Focus: Preschool age to about 5 years old
• Writing pointers 9-12

Week 4: Rediscovering yourself

• Writing Focus: Elementary school years
• Writing pointers 13-16

• Writing Focus – Teen Years (13-19)
• Writing pointers 17-20

Week 2: The Outline

• Writing Focus – Young Adult Years (19-25)
• Writing pointers 21-24

Week 3: Helpful Guidelines

• Writing Focus – Early Marriage Years (20-30)
• Writing pointers 25-28

Week 4: Preserving Documents Guidelines

• Writing Focus – Early Career Years (20-35)
• Writing pointers 29-32

• Writing Focus – Your MIddle Years (35-55)
• Writing pointers 33-36

Week 2: Episodes and Titles

• Writing Focus – Your Later Years (55-65)
• Writing pointers 37-40

Week 3: The Chronology

• Writing Focus – Your Retirement Years (65+)
• Writing pointers 41-44

Week 4: The Indispensable Pages

• Writing pointers 45-50

• The power of words
• The gift of story
• The journey of writing

Project: Creating a memoir page that explores the richness and depth of your words.

Week 2: Awakening – Coming Alive

• Appreciating variety
• Stimulating your creativity
• Welcoming surprises
• The art of everyday

Project: Creating a memoir page that explores the variety of color in life.

Week 3: Celebration – Knowing Your True Self

• Listening to yourself
• Defining yourself
• Accepting and celebrating yourself

Project: Creating a memoir page that recognizes and celebrates your uniqueness.

Week 4: Connection – Sharing Community

• Nurturing community
• Expanding connection
• Expression affection
• Connecting with your spirit

Project: Creating a memoir page that honors a relationship that touches you deeply.

In the Master’s Level classes, you will move forward into the next step of Memoir writing, from developing your theme and message, to mode of presentation, publication, finding your truth, editing and follow through.

*Legacy Class is required before taking the Master’s Level class.

The memoir builder workshops will be offered each month. This is an ongoing class that I will be presenting new material each week. Each class is a special lesson that will focus in on 4 essential strategies and elements in adding tools to your writer’s tool box. These rules will focus each week on one of the 4 strategies: grammar and building better sentences, planning, special effects for episodes and building useful habits.  Each class will have a built in writing prompt that you will begin to write and develop in class.

** Must have completed at least 2 sessions of the Leaving your Legacy Series.

Cost $160.00 for 4 weeks

~ DISCOUNT RATES FOR GRADUATES ~
Graduate of Legacy Series: $99.00
Graduate of Masters Level: $79.00