Imaginative Storm Community Workshops

We encourage you to bring the Imaginative Storm into your community!

Our method works for everyone—yes, everyone! Within just a session or two everyone writes something that amazes them. They think: I had no idea I could write like that!

It’s easy to facilitate an Imaginative Storm workshop. You don’t need an advanced degree. Heck, you don’t even need a college degree or a high school diploma! All you need is the passion to help people explore and expand their imaginative intelligence.

And you’ll expand yours too.

How to Become an Imaginative Storm Facilitator

It’s easy!

Step 1: Join us on Zoom for the Writing Prompt of the Week any Saturday or Thursday—that will show you how we do run our workshops. If you like, sign up for a free online training.

Step 2: Sign up to our Facilitators member site and download our Facilitator’s Guide. There’s no charge.

Step 3: Announce your workshop. If you would like a facilitator certificate, request one here.

Where will you hold your workshop?

Here are some possibilities:

  • your local library

  • community center

  • senior center

  • an independent bookstore

  • the back room of a coffee shop

What material will you use?

Our Facilitator’s Guide contains suggestions that will work for a single session, or for a series of up to 12 sessions. Participants can attend these seessions on a drop-in basis.

Once you’ve done a few of these more casual sessions, you may want to offer the full writer training, using Write What You Don’t Know as your textbook.

Hear from our first certified facilitator

Sandi Dittmer of Wetumpka, Alabama, has led a number of Imaginative Storm workshops. The photo below shows her session with “the Shady Ladies”—35 women from Shades Valley Community Church women’s group, on a weekend retreat.

Sandi writes: “it was absolute joy! The ladies loved every step. They were deafeningly silent, laughing, crying, sharing, writing and creating for an hour and a half solid. Everyone had a great time, but I think I had the most fun!”

To read Sandi’s piece about teaching her first Imaginative Storm workshop, click here.

Hear from the participants:

“I was so engaged in the process that I thought of nothing outside of here as I wrote. It was amazing.”

“I attended a creative writing workshop just last weekend. It was supposed to be really good but I got nothing from it. This was totally different and I loved it. It was easy. I got so much from Imaginative Storm and learned so much!”