Once you have experienced me and my way of being with you as a Book Developer …

Once you have experienced that I can listen to you well and you feel that I really understand you —

• Your dreams for your book-in-waiting (and for your own development)

• Your own, creative constellation, unique specifically to you—

then you can begin follow your own creative path gratefully and harmoniously, as it reveals itself to you with my help, rather than frustratingly trying to make yourself follow someone else’s agenda that doesn’t really work for you.

This is the foundation of writing a book from the deeper Self. And when we work together twice a month, your book will grow organically over the course of our work. And so will your trust in your capacities.

“Naomi provided the warm and inviting space that I needed to speak about my work and listen to the words as they emerged from within. She listened to my words before they were even shaped. She was fascinated with my ideas as I shared them with her, and this receptivity validated what I was wanting to write. She showed me how to write from my deeper Self.” — Doreen Downing, PhD

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

Two one-hour book-development sessions each month create a nurturing and purposeful container for your book's emergence.

Inside you are all manner of wonderful qualities—some already blossomed, some still in seed-potential—that can inspire and support you to write the book of your heart. Our work is to invite them out by listening to you together. This bi-weekly rhythm provides the perfect balance: enough structure and collaborative attention so you can generate and maintain your writing momentum with enthusiasm, and allow your emerging insights time to deepen between our conversations.

Your investment of $500/month includes:

• Two full-hour sessions of deep listening and creative midwifery

• One additional hour of my focused attention between our meetings—for reviewing writing you may choose to share with me, answering your questions, or some other form of my holding space for your process

• A recording and edited transcript of each session so you can easily revisit what we did, and the insights that emerged

• Bonus gifts of your choice so you stay connected to your book throughout the month (e.g., one or more of my books on the creative process / recordings from the Co-Writing Sanctuary, complete with an hour of held-writing space)

WHAT HAPPENS DURING OUR SESSIONS

• I am fully here for you. Whatever you bring into a session (whether new writing, a need to process what has — or hasn’t — been working for you, or something else) is what we give our collaborative attention to. And because you get to be present to what’s with you in that moment, what wants to be known in and through you has room to show itself in a way that you can recognize, appreciate, and own.

• I do not ask, “So where’s the chapter you said you were going to write?” I say, in effect, “What is with you right now?” And then you find out as you share that with me. The key to the next step is almost always revealed in that process. So you experience yourself as the one leading yourself. Even if you began the session with no sense of “What next?”

• We talk together. I often listen more than I speak, because it’s what you say (sometimes being surprised that you know to say that) that makes the most profound difference.

• I bring my half-a-lifetime of experience and expertise in the publications field (as a Book Developer, editor, published writer, consultant, and indie publisher), my gifts and training as an artist and musician, and my dedication as a spiritual seeker and a healer in the Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan) in service of your book and your experience of writing it.

• I offer you gentle encouragement to remain faithful to the project of your heart's between our meetings. If you have written during the intervening time, we look into what you’ve written, and how that was for you. If you haven't written, it’s still valuable to have our session. We'll explore your situation with compassion, clearing the way for your natural creativity to flow again

• I seek to be a dedicated and friendly companion and guide for you on this journey of discovery through book-writing, so that as you walk the path of bring forth the book of your heart you know you are not alone.

I look forward to working with you and helping you bring forth the beautiful, satisfying book of your heart.