Dear Brave Writers:

Dear Brave Writers: a Brave Space attendee recently thanked me for sending my follow-up email after Brave Space, saying, "this part truly helps me... seeing/hearing it again cements it..."

She is referring to seeing/reading what she said she learned from Brave Space (in our process discussion) restated in the follow-up email that goes out to all the participants afterwards. Because we learn a lot in Brave Space!

Reading words on the page (or on email) concretizes the experience. Because words carry meaning. Learning needs to be re-experienced and reflected back to the learner in order for us to truly take it in and incorporate it into our lives. 

Women's words and experiences are made so much more real when we see them on the page or stage and breathe that sigh of relief - oh! Someone else went through this! Someone else feels like I do! This is power. This creates community and kills isolation. 

That is why I write the follow-up emails, because it is powerful to see something on the page. Because my mission in creating Brave Space is to get more work by more women into the world. Because the world needs female experience from female points of view. Because the gatekeepers and the weight of history is/has been his and not all of ours. 

I want to support the work from the very beginning to get it all the way into the world so that self-doubt (that runs rampant through patriarchal culture) doesn't ruin our own sense of what we are trying to do, so we can trust our impulses and continue to believe in our projects until they are all the way born into the world to help us all.

Please join me in Brave Space at your convenience. Let me know if you have the intention to be there.