2024 Coaching for Creatives at the Poetry Pharmacy

with Julia Forster from Write Within

Applications Open until 29 February 2024. Apply HERE

I am seeking applications from poets, authors and creative practitioners who would like to access affordable coaching sessions at the Poetry Pharmacy in Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, in 2024.

Are you a poet, author or creative practitioner who would like to set some goals this year to move your work-in-progress forwards? Perhaps you’ve taken time away from your artistic practice and would like to ease back in meaningfully to creating and sustaining a committed practice? Or maybe you desire some other kind of change within the realm of an already established creative life?  

I will be offering monthly one-hour 1:1 coaching sessions at the Poetry Pharmacy with up to three clients on the third Monday of the month between March - September 2024 (excluding August), totalling six hours of face-to-face coaching. The sessions are £40 an hour, including free coffee/tea and cake, with the total cost over the sessions coming to £240. Clients pay monthly via BACS or cash.

More about the Offer 

Coaching offers a non-judgemental space held with care by the coach for the client to think, reflect, and raise awareness of their issues by which they are currently challenged. Coaches bear witness, listen, support and challenge, with the client setting the agenda and the pace of inner work. This coaching offer is distinct from mentoring or manuscript assessment. Coaching sessions will instead be focused on setting goals in conversation with a forward focus, and I will help clients to raise their awareness and responsibility, and accountability to themselves.  

I will be running my coaching clinic at the Poetry Pharmacy at 10.30am, 1.00pm or 2.30pm on the following days, and potential clients would need to be available to travel to the Pharmacy on all of them:

  •  Monday 18 March

  •  Monday 15 April

  •  Monday 20 May

  •  Monday 17 June

  •  Monday 15 July

  •  Monday 16 September

To express your interest, please complete the short form by midnight on 29 February 2024 here: https://bit.ly/PoetryPharmacy2024

There is no obligation to take out the coaching offer if you complete this form. We also require of potential clients that they commit to a free 30-minute phone or zoom consultation in early March 2024 before the coaching commences in order that clients can find out more about what coaching involves and ask any questions.

If you need any further information before applying, please contact me here: https://www.julia-forster.com/contact  

About Julia 

Julia has worked in publishing since 1999 for a wide variety of publishers and writer development agencies, including Literature Wales as a bursary assessor and elsewhere as a literary agent’s assistant in London. She is Co-Director and co-creator of Being A Writer at The Literary Consultancy. Julia works as a freelance publicist and has recently promoted Poetry Projects to Make and Do edited by Deborah Alma, published by Nine Arches Press in November 2023. She completed a Diploma in Spiritual Development at the Brenda Davies School in 2021 and is currently finishing up her qualification in an Advanced Diploma with the Wise Goose School of coaching. She volunteers for the wellbeing cooperative Eginiad Cymru and is based near Machynlleth where she runs a writer’s retreat. She is a published novelist, an award-winning poet and author of non-fiction.