Hi Conscious & Creative Writers!

May is one of my favourite months of the year. The brown winter landscape gradually transforms into a rich tapestry of multiple shades of green, as if the natural world is being painted with the colour of new life as it emerges from sleeping buds.

Encouraged by this natural surge of creative energy, this week I’m raising the bar to the next level with the book I am writing.

Having danced with a few creative daemons and demons in the last couple of weeks, I’m now heading more deeply into the conscious uncertainty that is the hallmark of this stage of the Conscious Writing process.

Staying balanced between focus and flow, showing up regularly, and remaining open to all possibilities, I’ll be interested to see where this journey into the Mystery eventually leads!

Inspiring Interviews
Alongside all of this, one of the aspects of my work that I love is speaking with the genuinely inspiring authors and international experts who contribute their time freely for our monthly Events.

Each year we create a compilation of the six best interviews of the year in an audio CD set which forms part of the Welcome Pack that FULL Members receive. Now it is time to make the Best of 2012 Interviews available for everyone to benefit from.

We are delighted to offer an introductory price until Friday 31 May so if you’d like to know The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success, The Power of Storytelling to Find Your Voice, the Four Noble Truths for Writers, how you can Create Time to Write, and Develop a Book Marketing Plan, read more here.

Date for Your Diary
Looking ahead, if you missed the Live in London Conscious Writing workshop last month and would like to experience this deep approach to writing in the company of other Conscious Writers, you have another opportunity on Saturday 15 June at the Isbourne Holistic Centre in Cheltenham. For more details and to book your place, click here

Finally, we have a fabulous guest article from one of our IACCW Experts Eric Maisel this month on Confident Creating. Enjoy reading it here and taking action on Eric’s suggestions. I’ll look forward to catching up with you again next month.

To you conscious & creative success!

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Hi Conscious & Creative Writers!

The prolonged cold weather may have delayed the start of spring but the seeds for our creative work can be planted and nurtured by the warmth of our inspiration at any moment we choose.

The seeds for my new book have already germinated, and I am very much looking forward to sharing the principles and guiding participants through the process of Conscious Writing at the one day workshop on Sunday 21 April. Read more here.

A couple of weeks ago I spent an enjoyable half day in a recording studio and created a Conscious Writing audio program which was a new experience for me.  Adding some original music to the spoken word content was great fun, and we’ll be making this audio available on 21 April ahead of its general release when the book is finally published.

Conscious Writing Scholarship

In the meantime, I am delighted to announce the results of the Conscious Writing Scholarship, and many congratulations go to Shelley Hawkins (1st place), Priya Mahtani (2nd place) and Jeanine Hanneman (3rd place).

We had a large number of applications and the quality of submissions was very high so thank you to everyone who took part. It has been such a positive experience that we plan to offer the Scholarship again next year so you might like to make a note in your diary to have your submission ready!

Two New Full Member Benefits

Supporting Conscious Writers is an important part of our work here at the IACCW and this month we have added two new Full Member Benefits for extra support:

(i) Guest Articles – Full Members now have the opportunity to have a guest article published in the IACCW Journal and posted to the IACCW blog. Our first Full Member to take advantage of this new Benefit is Lynda Monk and you can read her article here.

(ii) Published Works - we are also in the process of creating a new page for the IACCW website on which we will feature published works from Full Members and coaching clients.

These can be books, e-books, audio CDs or any other work that has been self or traditionally published as long as it is for sale on Amazon. If you would like to submit your published work, email us on info@iaccw.com and we’ll send you more information.

Finally, I discovered when I was writing this month’s article on silence that Wednesday 24 April is International Noise Awareness Day.

I am delighted to discover that the benefits of silence are becoming so widely documented that they have led to days like this for promoting awareness. Enjoy reading the article and benefitting from incorporating more silence into your conscious & creative living.

Have a wonderfully conscious & creative month!

PS This “Welcome” note is reproduced from the latest issue of the monthly IACCW Journal. If you’re not receiving our newsletter regularly, register with your name and email address in the Start Here box at the top of this page.