This eight lesson home study course will teach you my unique SPICE tool that unlocks the secret to writing compelling stories based on your experiences. Each lesson provides a Limbering Up exercise and a Task to get you putting pen to paper. Be inspired, not only by the clear and practical instructions, but also by writings on those very same tasks created by my students. In addition to eight audio files you can also download a workbook that contains the same content, a SPICE chart for you to use and a video showing me teaching an introduction to my method in a classroom. This same method has been taught at the Watermill at Posara in Tuscany since 2012 in a residential retreat situation, in the Netherlands, Malaysia and online. Well over a 1000 students have learned its methods and many have gone on to publish their own memoirs.

This course takes you on a journey to meet your book, the book trapped inside you.

Discover what channeling is and isn't.

Find out how to tap into your creative muse on demand and allows words to come through you as opposed to from you.

This is a mindfully short course designed to help you forge a strong bond with your creative muse. You will also discover how to bond with your guides and even how to channel your future self. The course is primarily designed for writers, songwriters, or meditation guides but the techniques covered will help you in any artistic endeavour. It is distilled from a much larger body of work called Book Alchemy which is one of the components in my demystery school, The Adytum

Two indie authors with 20+ years in the trenches sit down to name names on the schemes targeting writers today — from fake editors quietly running manuscripts through ChatGPT, to vanity presses dressed up as book deals, to "we'll make you a bestseller" pitches that never deliver.

Each episode breaks down one scam in plain language: how it hooks you, the red flags that give it away, and what to do if you've already been caught. It's the conversation about publishing scams you wish someone had had with you before you learned the hard way.

You're the one everyone counts on to deliver, whatever it takes. And even when you love what you do, part of you has started to wonder whether it has to cost this much: the stress, the pushing through exhaustion, the sense that your best only ever comes at a price. It doesn't.

Over seven short tracks, Femke Bakker, selfgentleness and meditation teacher, TEDx speaker, and researcher, guides you toward an easier way to arrive at your best. You'll learn to relax your body on demand, loosen the grip of time, reconnect with the quiet place your best work comes from, and become your own steadiest support. Each track pairs a short reflection with a guided practice, so you discover what this means for you rather than just hearing about it. No hustle, no pressure. Just a calmer, more spacious way to do what you already do well.

You wanted to carve out your own path with your business, but with every question you asked, you were inundated with advice telling you how you should act. That's left you feeling confused and disorientated.

Creating a successful, soulful business is an art form blending energy, inner wisdom and leadership.You can design your business to follow no rules other than your soul cues, and I will show you how to get started in this course.

Each step focuses on a different aspect of the essence of your business, so you know where it will take you and what you will create. You will understand your business in a new way, one that brings freedom to create success on your terms.

This journey is a temporal pot pourri of simple techniques and time-full tasks you can use to create more space and time in your life.

The 24th tip, as you will see, is no-task-at-all.

Even though they are all 60 seconds long, there is much to ponder with each one so you may like to pause and journal to each one and even spread them over 24 days, even though they are each very short.

Coming Back to Your Centre is a gentle New Reality Journey created to help you slow down, breathe, and reconnect with yourself. Through a simple breathing practice, gentle reflections, and two original Soul Rocker songs, you'll discover simple ways to return to your centre in everyday life.

You are welcome to return to this journey whenever life feels busy, overwhelming, or whenever you simply need a few moments of peace. Each time you listen, your experience may be different.

An optional companion artwork is also available if you'd like to colour, doodle, or quietly create as you listen, allowing creativity to become another gentle pathway back to your centre.

This mindfully and timefully short course will help you escape from being enslaved by the clock. Time, as we know it, is man-made and nothing in nature beats to the second but the thoughts of somebody watching a clock. When we get back in sync with natural time, two benefits come our way.

First, we get more things done, with more ease, in less time.

Secondly, we discover every starts to occur, just in time. The lessons in this course are accompanied and extended with ambient soundscapes designed to loosen your bond with linear time.

Accordingly I recommend you use headphones to listen to each lesson.

Your memories, experiences, defining moments and crazy incidents are important – they show who you are and yet the task of writing a full-length memoir, is a mountain too high to climb. So, what if you could learn how to write about the things that have shaped you in the most compelling way? What if you could write them, not to be published, but as a legacy for your family? This is the core of the Life Story Jar course. Based on the concept of Kintsugi, a porcelain jar that has been broken, just as we can be broken by some of our experiences, and put back together again, just as we manage to pick ourselves up and start again. Kintsugi shows that pieces are mended with golden glue and rendered more precious. I believe that our stories represent the pieces and the sharing of those stories is the golden glue. This programme of 50 individual lessons will guide you towards writing your own pieces and building them into a unique and priceless collection. Each lesson begins with inspiration and practical tips and ends with an example of my own writing on the very same topic. So dive in and try it for yourself.

Welcome to this four-day sound and drawing journey.

Together, we will explore a simple yet powerful way of creating more calm, clarity, and presence in everyday life using tools you already have: a pencil, a piece of paper, your senses, and a few quiet moments for yourself.

This journey weaves together movement, sound, and image through the kinesthetic, auditory, and visual senses. By engaging all three, you invite the mind to settle, the body to soften, and the inner world to express itself without needing words.

Each day, find a comfortable place where you can be undisturbed for a few minutes. Let this be your time. A small act of choosing yourself.

As you listen to my piano painting, place your pencil on the paper and allow it to move freely. There is no right way and no wrong way. No art skills are required.

Simply follow the music.

Let the pencil travel across the page in one continuous movement. When the movement feels complete, gently lift the pencil.

Pause.

Take a breath.

Notice what you feel.

What changed?

What wanted to be expressed?

What happens when you stop trying to control the line and allow it to lead the way?

Welcome to the journey.

Join me as I facilitate inspiring and practical conversations with experts on a range of topics that will help you become better writers and authors. Learn about everthing from marketing your book to editing, story arcs and journalling. New episodes will be added monthly.

We have been told and taught that time is linear. Yet time is a malleable and subjective dimension, where the past and future are as accessible as the present. Learn how to live Just in Time and to always have as much time as you need.

This is one course you take where you get the time back many times over than the time you invest in taking it in.

This is a short course I have distilled from my full programme on Temporal Alchemy which is just one of the many courses you will find here.

One aspect of this course is this. The time you take to complete it will come back to you many times over.

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DIO — Drawing It Out

A New Reality Journey with SÏRÏ

What if you didn’t need to think your way back to yourself?

What if you could draw your way there?

Drawing It Out — DIO — is a journey into inner stillness through one of the simplest tools we have: a line on a page.

You do not need to be an artist.

You do not need to know how to draw.

And you do not need to make anything beautiful.

In fact, that is part of the point.

I created DIO through my own experience of discovering what happens when we allow the hand to move before the thinking mind has time to decide what should happen.

A pen.

A piece of paper.

A line.

And suddenly there is another way of listening.

DIO combines guided reflection, drawing, sound, music and moments of stillness to help you move underneath the noise of everyday life. Instead of trying to explain everything with words, you allow the body and the hand to speak.

The drawing becomes a conversation.

Not a picture you have to understand or interpret correctly, but a place where something inside you can become visible.

Throughout this journey, I will invite you to draw without judgement, without planning and without needing to know where the line is going.

Because this is not really a journey towards becoming better at drawing.

It is a journey of remembering.

Remembering the part of you that existed before all the expectations, roles, responsibilities, stories and noise became so loud.

The part of you that already knows.

The part of you that can become quiet enough to hear itself.

You may discover feelings you have not had words for. You may recognise patterns, memories or parts of yourself that have been waiting for your attention. Or you may simply experience something wonderfully uncomplicated:

peace.

There is nothing to achieve here.

There is only something to meet.

You.

One line at a time.

Welcome to DIO — Drawing It Out.

Welcome to Drawing Yourself Home.

Break free from procrastination and build lasting habits for a more productive, focused, and fulfilling life.

In this Journey, we will dive into the root causes of procrastination and gain the tools to overcome it. By the end of the journey, you will have developed sustainable strategies to take action, improve focus, and build habits that lead to long-term success.

What Can You Expect:

1. Understand Procrastination:

Gain a deeper understanding of procrastination’s psychological, emotional, and behavioral roots.

Identify how procrastination impacts various aspects of life—emotionally, financially, and physically.

2. Identify Triggers and Barriers:

Learn how to spot personal procrastination triggers like fear, perfectionism, or distractions.

Address emotional barriers such as fear of failure or success that may hold you back.

3. Master Time Management Techniques:

Learn effective time management strategies like the Pomodoro Technique and the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize tasks and stay organized.

Develop daily action plans that break big tasks into smaller, manageable steps.

4. Build Sustainable Habits and Routines:

Understand the science of habit formation and create routines that support your goals.

Implement morning and evening routines to kickstart productivity and maintain momentum.

5. Strengthen Motivation and Self-Discipline:

Explore how to maintain long-term motivation by leveraging both intrinsic and extrinsic drivers.

Learn practical exercises to strengthen willpower and self-control.

6. Overcome Mental Barriers:

Using cognitive-behavioral strategies, understand common mental obstacles like fear of failure, perfectionism, and anxiety.

Cultivate a growth mindset and practice self-compassion to sustain progress.

7. Build a Support System:

Discover the importance of accountability partners and support networks to keep you on track.

Learn how to engage with supportive communities to maintain momentum and stay committed to your goals.

By the end of this journey, you will have a toolkit of strategies to combat procrastination, stay focused, and continuously move toward their goals with clarity and confidence.

Have you ever noticed that sometimes the more creative you try to be, the more creatively uncreative you become?

This short journey is designed to get out of your own creatively uncreative fug.

Living Fearlessly removes underlying causes of procrastination

Escaping Mindfalls stops your mind going around in circles

The Mirror of Success takes you to a place of new found success

You can listen to this complete journey free, just by creating a free NRJ account.