How would you like to start or return to your writing journey and learn to:

  • explore and develop  your ideas through journaling and writing.
  • discover and strengthen your writer’s voice.
  • explore your personal writing journey through expert writing prompts. 
  • express your life and truth through the written word.
  • make what is meaningful to you, meaningful to your readers. 

Then The Initiated Writer™ On-line Class is for You

Take the Initiatory journey of the Writer
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  • Where you will discover a unique and personalized path for your writing and stories
  • You explore and discover your writing potential.
  • You will receive personal instruction by me, your Writing Sherpa through individualized writing prompts 
  • You will move through resistance and find yourself living the active writer’s life 

In the 7 session on-line classes and emails you will cross the threshold into an Initiated Writer, planting your lotuses in the fire!

What You Get

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  • Help with your writing project from an experienced author and writing instructor.
  • I will consult on and  respond to 4 pages of your writing after the completion of each lesson, as well as engage with you around your writing.
  • You will receive SIX Session, each with 4 lessons. 
  • You will get writing prompts that bring your world and stories to word. 
  • After completion of the class I will consult up to 10 pages of your writing (a $100 value alone). 

NEW:  Each session comes with one video of inspirational lessons and writing prompts from me. 

You initiate yourself through the written word. As an Initiated Writer you will have found a true place in your words and stories and an inner path to return to again and again to continue your writing.

​As an Initiated Writer you will have a story for future readers. 

I had been offering the Initiation Course for over 10 years and later put together a book proposal based on this year-long course. A publisher accepted it, so then I had to get to work translating this material into a book, The Wheel of Initiation. A book that readers can use as a personal transformative experience.

​Now I offer this course as an Initiatory journey for the Writer, here.  Each book I have written has had its own initiatory journey of myths, symbols, metaphors, allies, thresholds and awakenings. For the Wheel of Initiation I used the medicine wheel, the Initiation wheel, and the myths associated with Initiation.  In my most recent book, the Clue of the Red Thread, I use the template and myths of the labyrinth and the inner journey.  I have written 11 books using the explorations and practices I offer you in this class. 
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Class outline: 

Introduction and Welcome Letter: Entering The Wheel of Initiation: Starting Your Personal Writer's Journey 
Get started and ready to hold the five sessions of exploration. Following each session you will have exercises, writing prompts and other “off the page” explorations to deepen your writing experience.  

​Session One:  I am the One Who. Right Place; Right Person: Writing from within the circumstances of your life. 

Session Two:  Moving You and Your Readers through RESISTANCE

Session Three:  Myth, Metaphor & The Third Thing 

Session Four: Writing is Seeing & Exploring: World Into Word

Session Five:  Planting Lotuses In the Fire: On & Off the Page. Writer as Meaning Maker. 

Follow-up & Integration:  Writing Your Talk; Walking Your Words. The Third Place. 

Reading Recommendation:  The Clue of the Red Thread or/and The Wheel of Initiation 

Reading suggestions: The Zero Point Agreement: How to Be Who You Already Are  

​Other books, by many authors will be recommended throughout the class. 
Life is without meaning
You bring the meaning to it
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
~ Joseph Campbell, author and mythologist

How it Works

​After you sign up and register I will send out the Welcome Letter with questions and prompts to get you started.

After you respond to the welcome I will send you your first session. Each time you finish one session and send me your 4 pages, I will respond personally to your pages and send you the next session. You will have 6 months to finish the class material. After you send me the pages for session #5 (the final session), I will send you the final INTEGRATION lesson.

​Any time after you send me your completed 5th lesson,  you can send me up to 10 pages to critique (within the 6 month deadline).  Ideally you do a session a month. 

I joined Julie’s writing circle with a wisp of an idea and no book writing experience. Nine months later, I had completed manuscript. Julie lives the Writer’s Life. A gifted and generous teacher, she transmits what she has learned in her 25 years of writing and publishing to her clients and groups. Julie’s coaching and the atmosphere she created in the writing circle provided the perfect environment for my writing. I highly recommend Julie’s Writing Circles, Writers’ Days, and Writeshops.–Natalia Erehnah, author of Swan Mothers: Discovering Our True Selves by Parenting Uniquely Magnificent Children   www.swanmothers.com

"I had no idea what I signed up for, which was likely a good thing. This was on every possible level an initiation into my writing.  What came alive in me and on the page was remarkable: myths that guide my life and writing, symbols the describe who I am and what I am trying to say.  I was writing about the damage to the ecosystems of certain wildlife and found answers here I couldn't find in my scientific research.  Do you want to initiate yourself as a writer? This is a place that can happen, it did for me."  John P. Smith