Story Consultant
for creative projects
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For projects in all stages - MEMOIRS - FILMS - HOLISTIC PRACTICE - I offer a MIX of INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY SESSIONS in which we Write Journey Embody and INSIGHTFUL FEEDBACK on the big picture and details - nuance, story, structure, voice, - all within the context of your vision, and drawing from my background in film, creative writing and facilitating workshops. My commitment is to listen and to follow what calls...
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Vision...Only you know your vision
How I can help is excavate it, shape it, unearth it, resurrect it if it has become buried or help it find form if it is still vapor. This is what I love doing: listening and helping someone's vision find its own true story. |
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We continue with what suits your process and project - it could be creativity sessions, it could be feedback on pages you have written, it could be a combination of both.
I really do believe the story only you can tell - live - dance - write needs to be shared. Because it lights you up, and creates, one light at a time, one step, at a time - a network of light and healing. I believe sharing such stories brings healing and transformation, both for the person sharing, the person receiving and our communities. |
In Land Creativity Writing Workshop
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In Land Creativity Writing Workshop
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Testimonials
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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 gorgeous 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 the creativity sessions
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, and cross cultural songs and stories; they incorporate deep play, theater, song, and movement to nurture a felt body sense of inspiration and create embodied prose and lyric writing.
At their core is the invitation to speak sing live write in the rhythm of the story only you can tell.
In the alchemy of these rhythms, I believe, there is resonance, guidance, and healing - for ourselves and the communities we call home.
At their core is the invitation to speak sing live write in the rhythm of the story only you can tell.
In the alchemy of these rhythms, I believe, there is resonance, guidance, and healing - for ourselves and the communities we call home.
Pricing and Packages
Story Consults and Creativity Sessions are priced individually per project. Read more..
I'd be glad to hear from you and schedule a 30 minute complimentary session.
I'd be glad to hear from you and schedule a 30 minute complimentary session.
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Work Samples
some memoir pieces that I've written
published in Vela magazine, included in Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 10 and translated into Swedish for the anthology, Limitless.
in Hippocampus Magazine
Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, editor Holly Hughes,
...Adelante con arte, onwards with the story only you can tell...