Tell your own Story
Autobiographical writing to improve your Spanish
Tell Your Own Story is a program that invites you to meander around your life story and explore your lived experiences, your identities, and your beginnings. It invites you to shed light on the shadows hidden in the attic of your memory and rewrite the narrative that explains who you are today so that you can project your future.
How does it work?
This program is designed so that you can work at your own pace on each module every month with the guidance of readings and questions.
You can delve into each module during a month you and receive deepening questions (to detangle your story) and feedback (to improve your Spanish) asynchronously from me via email. You can also download all materials and keep them forever! If you choose the guided option, you’ll also get two sessions (45 minutes each) at the beginning and the end of the month to delve even further into your story through therapeutic conversation.
Every month, for a maximum of 12, you will go on a journey around your life. You will visit your past, your trodden path and you will get your binoculars to look ahead. You’ll dust off your identities, origin story and shadow boxes and throw what is no longer useful, and repurpose what is. You will read the stories others have written about you and rewrite your own. You will explore your landscapes and your body to draft your own maps.
You will unlearn and relearn yourself through your own words in Spanish.
This program includes (per month)
- A downloadable PDF material that you can print or keep on your computer forever.
- Feedback and language corrections on your text every week.
- Guidance and support to explore your life story, blocks, silence your negative inner dialogue, or rewrite your own narratives.
- Two 1:1 sessions with me to work on whatever is needed, from Spanish language learning to language or personal coaching.
Content
- Escritura personal y autobiográfica.
- Instantáneas del pasado.
- Palabras e identidades.
- El lenguaje de mi cuerpo.
- Volver a casa.
- Adentrándonos en las sombras.
7. Mirar atrás para ver el camino.
8. El mensaje del silencio.
9. Tu paisaje, tu refugio, tu destino.
10. Entre ancestros y legados
11. El hilo de la memoria
12. De guías y guiados
Some of the authors you will get the chance to read are Sandra Cisneros, Clara Obligado, Raquel Delgado, Vanessa Monfort, Josefina Vicens or Alejandra Kamiya amongst others.
Why this course is special?
Learning based on writing
This writing-focused course helps you improve your vocabulary, sharpen your grammar, and build confidence in expressing yourself. Writing allows you to actively use the language actively, reinforcing what you’ve learned and deepening your understanding of sentence structure.
Relevant & Embodied
Emotional Learning
No emotion, no learning. The content of this course is designed to evoke emotions in the learner so that it “sticks”.
Have a peek at the first module
Click on the image on the right to access the downloadable PDF module 1, about escritura personal y autobiográfica.
Get this course
Asynchronous / Self-paced
- One module per month in the form of a downloadable PDF.
- Weekly revisions of your writing. These revisions include: a) grammar + language corrections, rewriting suggestions (for language improvement purposes) and b) deepening questions to further explore your inner landscape.
If you book for the entire year, you will receive two extra rounds of corrections and feedback from me to work on a final, personal literary project. This will allow you to finish with the first draft of a book in Spanish for self-publication or your own enjoyment.
Asynchronous + personalised guidance
- One module per month in the form of a downloadable PDF.
- Weekly revisions of your writing. These revisions include: a) grammar + language corrections, rewriting suggestions (for language improvement purposes) and b) deepening questions to further explore your inner landscape.
- Two 45-minute 1:1 calls with me (the first one on the week you receive the module, the last one, three weeks later).
If you book the entire year, you will get two extra 45-minute 1:1 calls with me to work on a final, personal literary project. This way, you can end up with the first draft of a book in Spanish for self-publication or your own enjoyment.