your vision
There is a story only you can tell and live....and I'd like to help you tell it. I've worked with people on MEMOIRS, FAMILY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS, FILMS. SHORT STORIES and HEALING PRACTICE WEBSITES. I've also worked with people who have no project in mind - they simply want to write, journey, embody for the sake of it or feel compelled for reasons they can't explain. Perhaps they sense - as I do - that HARNESSING YOUR CREATIVITY helps to get to your TRUTH. I sincerely encourage your impulse to begin - to deepen your encounters in creativity - I feel it opens mysterious doors within the body spirit and leads to new journeys.
Story Guide
only you know your vision. how I hope to help is work with you to nurture it so can grow greener, excavate it if it has gone underground, or catalyze it into form if it is still vapor.
Write
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What I love is listening & playing in metaphor and movement to nurture someone's vision to find its own particular resonance
"revelations in the heart "
I love this phrase from Leonard Cohen describing what he wants his work to inspire. His vision comes across so clearly as something particular to his particular way of being in the world.
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A GENESIS session starts the journey to the heart of your vision, what led you to create...
In this embodying session - we move with, write and listen to the vision... ...even if it changes… even if it doesn't.. the point is to create a resonant baseline so that moving forward or backwards, the project is seen through your vision, so that when you get lost... ...because everyone gets lost…. .., you can return to the genesis and that will guide you, ground you into to the true form for the story that only you can tell. . |
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We continue with what suits your process and project - it could be writing/creativity sessions, feedback on pages you have written, interviews/conversation sessions or a mix and match combination.
The CREATIVITY SESSIONS like the workshops I facilitate, are guided sessions to inspire body. spirit and imagination through open-hearted encounters with metaphor, nature, alchemy, songs and stories; they incorporate theater, song, and movement to nurture a felt body sense of inspiration and create embodied prose and lyric writing.
The umbrella name and vision for my work as a performer, writer and story guide is
FARAWAY IS CLOSE: resonant cross cultural experiences that dissolve borders and connect us to different cultures and also to what feels distant within us,
the stories under the skin, indigenous to spirit
The umbrella name and vision for my work as a performer, writer and story guide is
FARAWAY IS CLOSE: resonant cross cultural experiences that dissolve borders and connect us to different cultures and also to what feels distant within us,
the stories under the skin, indigenous to spirit
I'VE FACILITATED GROUP WORKSHOPS IN NEW MEXICO, MONGOLIA, PALESTINE, & AMERICAN SAMOA
READ MORE AT FARAWAYISCLOSE.COM
Get in touch for a Complimentary Discovery Session
In this 30 minute session, we meet on the phone or online and talk about your story/project. I listen and share feedback that I hope will serve as encouragement and resources that may be of use. If we feel a resonance to working together,
that will become clear as well.
that will become clear as well.
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writeoutloud13 at
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Testimonials
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"a way of exploring the landscape within me"
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"a patient and curious listener"
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"Thank you for lighting a fire inside me""
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In Land Creativity Writing Workshop
In Land Creativity Writing Workshop
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Working with Shebana repeatedly gifted me novel ways of framing and understanding my journey.
Working with Shebana is itself a journey – a way of exploring the stories, perceptions, rhythms, sounds and connections comprising the landscapes and terrains within me. I very much appreciate her skill and agility in working with voice, movement, imagination and the written word. Her gentleness, ease and full presence meant she was ready to meet me where I was in any given moment and to hold space for me to be in the vulnerability necessary for me to be fully present with myself. With Shebana’s distinct kind of guidance, the kind which means she is bearing witness alongside me, I have repeatedly walked towards aspects of myself which have been hidden away in easily missed corners and crevices. Reframes have combined with fresh images to result in clear, concise, playful ways to see myself and describe the path I am walking. |
When I conjure our lessons in my minds eye, I immediately see her smile and radiant eyes and hear our shared laughter.
Together we moved, went still, laughed, cried, as we traversed innumerable borders and boundaries. I am concluding my work with Shebana having a stronger, more vibrant container in which to hold my vision and guide my next steps. I have a connection with a clearer, more multi-dimensional voice from which to write the book I’m working on and to communicate about my emerging somatic education practice. The fruits of our work together will no doubt serve me well as I step more deeply into my identity as a writer and I embark on a new career as a somatic education practitioner (The Feldenkrais Method ®). Veena Vasista Wake-Up Artist & Movement Maker Feldenkrais Method® Practitioner - movement as a portal to freedom www.liberatingmoves.com (coming soon) |
On the land
Shebana Coelho is one of those people whose natural grace and intelligence can't help but inspire the rest of us to shine brighter.
Her natural voice in writing and open heart mixed with imaginative powers make her a fine teacher of writing. -Joan Logghe Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2010-2012 Writing teacher for over thirty years As one of the founding editors of Granta magazine, a novelist, and a creative writing instructor, I have worked with many writers—including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Kiran Desai, who have proved that the multi-cultural world of India resonates to a world audience—and have read thousands more. Shebana is undoubtedly the real thing, with a sophisticated understanding that identity is a complex and wonderful subject. -Jonathan Levi Guide for the Perpelexed co-founder,Granta |
Zuni pueblo workshops
I've taken all kinds of writing workshops, but I've never had one led by someone like Shebana, who is so adept at stimulating writers to look at their work in new ways and to take risks in such a positive environment. And the writing she contributes during the sessions is truly inspirational.
-Michael, Santa Fe This workshop was a game changer! Thank you for lighting a fire inside me. -Lynn, Santa Fe "remarkable skill….the ability to listen, assimilate our ideas…and show us what was possible." "a powerful ability to help one get to the heart of the matter" "her gift of story-telling, and especially her keen editorial insights" "a patient and curious listener…. her guidance on how to manifest that vision through multimedia." Read MORE |
Amerika Samoa Community College Workshop 2020
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Mongolia MONFEMNET Retreat 2016
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About me
originally from India. now in New Mexico
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FOLLOWING WHAT CALLS
A few words on the vision at the heart of my work
as a performer of the play,
The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects,
as a writer, story consultant and human animal...
as a performer of the play,
The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects,
as a writer, story consultant and human animal...
Writing Samples
Here are some memoir
pieces I've written More Work samples in other genres here |
published in Vela magazine, included in Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10 and translated into Swedish for the anthology, Limitless.
Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, editor Holly Hughes
Ghost Ranch Newsletter Article
Reimagining the past in Hippocampus Magazine
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Pricing
The Write Journey Embody sessions are priced at an hourly rate.
I also offer packages of sessions.
Please email me for details at writeoutloud13 at gmail dot com
I offer a 30 MINUTE COMPLIMENTARY SESSION
to meet, share a bit about each of our visions
and get a feel for how we might work together.
I also offer packages of sessions.
Please email me for details at writeoutloud13 at gmail dot com
I offer a 30 MINUTE COMPLIMENTARY SESSION
to meet, share a bit about each of our visions
and get a feel for how we might work together.
GROUP SESSIONS & PRE-RECORDED WORKSHOPS
From time to time, I facilitate
COMMUNITY CIRCLES and Group Workshops
Pre-Recorded Workshops
you can do these at home, at your own pace
CREATE from the ENCOUNTER
with Mongolia
with Gratitude
with Presence
CREATE from the ENCOUNTER
with Mongolia
with Gratitude
with Presence
Adelante, onwards with the story only you can tell