Headwaters: 6-Week Course on Writing and Regenerating Your Creative Prowess

Deepen your writing practice, unblock your creative life-force energy, and publish your most-authentic writing to date.

There is a place, next to a river, where the waters of creation run. Here, we meet on the thousand-year-old stones and sit in a circle around the creative fire.

When I started writing in public, I was not yet ready to prioritize my creative work. I didn’t know how to value it, how to give it space and time it deserves.

(So much of writing work is not about writing at all.)

This kind of creative self-denial is almost an epidemic state of being to many, many creative souls.

When we are worlded into devaluation of our own creativity, energy, and potential, we unconsciously agree to that devaluation and assume roles, positions, and work that maintain us in that paradigm.

Many people (especially women) end up in roles that are supportive, rather than creative. Working in the background. Working for someone else. Building someone else’s product. Promoting someone else’s ideas, while your own heart bursts with desire for something of your own.

We devalue our creative energy because we have been socialized to devalue it.

Our ideas, our dreams, and our visions can't come through if we do not give them priority in our lives.

Our work is to remove the dams and clear the stream.

Our work is to return to the source.

Clear water stream, by Niels Devisscher

Headwater is a portal

Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.

A place where a water stream emerges onto the surface of the Earth.

Many ancient cultures have seen these places as sacred, places of healing and vision.

Where is your Headwater?

Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards, bursting, breaking through the lithosphere—ready to create gravity of aliveness around itself, the way a star does.

Between the underground and overground—a melting space of transfiguration. This is where creativity condenses, swells, and emerges as a gift.

Somewhere inside you is a creative—a writer asking to be expressed to the world.

This part keeps you awake at night, or slides into the morning thoughts.

It nudges you when you witness a beautiful piece of art or writing. It whispers:
I also want this.

This part of you holds an ever-expanding vault of ideas and ways to bring them to life.

A creative in you is watchful, it’s here as you are reading this.

It’s waiting to finally meet the world. It’s waiting to finally meet the world—in uncensored truth.

Rūta at Reethaus, Berlin. By Niels Devisscher

Headwaters: 6-week Course on Writing and Regeneration of Creative Prowess

On October 17th we will start a 6-week long journey into uncovering your creative self and learning to write from your true, authentic essence.

Enrollment is now open and it closes on the 16th of October. Click below to learn more about the course and secure your place:

Headwaters is for you if:

1. You have a deep inner feeling asking you to write, tell your story, and elevate your creative work to a higher value.

2. You need a system, accountability, and structure that can help you gain momentum in writing and putting your work out there.

3. You have a strong inner critic that stops you before you begin. You have tried writing and/or publishing in the past, but it hasn't picked up, or you gave up, but you know you're meant to share your writing with the world.

4. You feel that everything gets in the way of your writing and creative self-expression. You tend to sacrifice your time and energy for others: work, friendships, relationships, family.

5. You are a creative, entrepreneur, (or looking to make the leap) and you want to build an audience that will later become your clients. OR you want to build a publication that allows you to connect with readers all over the world, and build a supportive audience for your potential product.

6. You are tired of having to hold only one identity: you have a mix of passions, ideas, and topics that you want to write about but you don't want to censor parts of you that need to be integrated into your self-expression.

Headwaters course will help you recover your authentic and creative essence, prioritize it, and help you to write and publish your most authentic writing to date.

Scottish highlands, by Niels Devisscher

Are you ready to meet the part of you that holds the creative treasure?

Are you ready to recover it, bathe it, nurture it, grow it, and let it bring you all the fruits and beauty it can offer in return?

Are you ready to prioritize yourself, your writing, and your creativity?

We are going to do this by:

1. Connecting with your authentic creative self essence so you know what it feels like to write from an authentic, soul-aligned place.

2. Unblocking your deeply rooted limiting beliefs that hold back your creative potential, your writing, and your authentic creative self, so you don't waste any more time second-guessing your creative self-worth in the world.

3. Creating a positive relationship with creative writing systems, structure, standards, and discipline. Knowing how to resolve resistance is the most crucial part of the creative workflow. I will share my systems, structure, and how to work with a part of us that helps to materialize our creative vision.

4. Learning to write from the body, so you can be attuned to the subtlety of the inner sense of truth when telling a story. We will uncover your personal voice and learn to discern what makes good writing that your readers want to come back to.

5. Becoming an Idea Synthesizer, someone who can integrate differing topics into each other, so you can build a diverse audience at the hearth of your authentic expression.

6. Integrating the identity of a writer, and most importantly—integrating the identity of a deeply deserving creative. Lasting change happens when we shift our identities. Identities shift when we are brave enough to connect with the truth of our being AND when we practice being in that identity long enough. Which leads us to…

7. Writing together. Training our focus together without distractions. Publishing together. This will allow you to build a creative momentum that you can take way beyond the course.

We will meet every Thursday 6-8PM CET, starting on the 17th of October, for 6 weeks onwards. Learn more about the course and secure your place here:

I am looking forward to hosting an incredible group of people and going on a deeply transformative and creative journey together. 🤍

Much love,
Rūta

P.S. If you if you have questions, or feel on the fence Headwaters is for you, you can respond to this email or book a call with me here.

Rūta and Scots Pine, by Niels Devisscher