Headwaters: 6-Week Course on Authentic Writing and Regenerating Your Creative Prowess (April 3rd, 2025)

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 winding river, where the waters of creation run.

Here, we meet by the thousand-year-old stones and sit in a circle around the fire.

The river knows all lives that have ever happened.

The river remembers all living, all dead, all yet-to-be-born.

Its eternal flow does not rush, it gathers everyone eventually and moves them downstream.

The secret place where the river is born is called the Headwaters.

From there we can gather the life-giving waters, bathe in it, drink it, listen to it sing.

By this spring we receive answers to our deepest longings.

And as they say, the only way to bring your creations to life is to bathe them in the pools of the Headwaters.

Photo by Niels Devisscher

Creative Self-Worth

When I started writing and publishing, I didn’t know how to prioritize my creative work.

I didn’t know how to nurture it, value it, or how to give it space and time it deserves.

(It turns out that so much of writing work is not about writing at all.)

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

When we are conditioned to devalue our own creativity, energy, and potential, we unconsciously agree to that devaluation. We take upon roles, positions, and work that maintain us in that paradigm.

Many creative people (especially women) end up in roles that are supportive, rather than generative.

Building someone else’s product or dream.

Promoting someone else’s ideas, while your own heart desires for your own creative potential to materialize.

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

And so, 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 of the river.

This is why I created Headwaters. It’s a 6-week Course on Writing and Regeneration of Your Creative Prowess. With a full heart, I invite you to join. I’ve put together everything I know about writing and creativity into this journey. Let’s take a look at what’s inside.

Touching the stream of Swiss mountains, by Niels Devisscher

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

On April 3rd we will start a 6-week journey into uncovering your creative self and learning to write from your true, authentic essence.

As much as we will write together, we will move through deeper layers of what it means to be a writer.

My number one goal is to bring you closer to your creative essence and allow yourself to fully embrace it and express it — especially in writing.

Which means that we will also work with the inner critic, as well as your authentic, essential self — your inner writer.

I believe that working with the true, vulnerable, authentic, essential parts of the self is the most foundational part of the writing process.

Because the most interesting, alive, invigorating writing comes from the place of inner truth. Which is where we're going to journey.

Your writing "level" doesn't matter here. You might be just starting, you might be writing for years. We welcome all.

Enrollment is now open and it closes on the April 3rd. Click below to learn more about the course and secure your place:

Headwaters is for you if you relate to at least one of these points:

1. You may or may not consider yourself a writer. Those who are only starting and those who’ve been in the game for a while — are all welcome to join.

2. You have a deep inner feeling asking you to write, tell your story, and elevate your creative work to a higher value. You also want to start or uplevel your publication, such as Substack.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

River in the Scottish highlands, by Niels Devisscher

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 and intuition, 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 writing 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 6-8 PM CET, starting on the 3rd of April - 8th May.
You can check your timezone alignment here. Learn more about the course below:

I am looking forward to hosting an incredible group of people and going on a deeply transformative and creative journey together. (Last time we had 50 incredible humans joining the course!) 🤍

Much much love,
Rūta XX

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

Rūta, by Niels Devisscher