Join Marney Makridakis, the founding flower child of Artella Land, for a warm, playful online gathering celebrating 25 years of Artella creativity and community.
If you've ever felt the pull to write about the experiences in your life -- but not in a linear, “this happened, then that happened” kind of way -- please join us for Pocket Worlds: A Magical Memoir Writing Adventure, held Tuesday March 24 @ 7pm EST (6pm Central, 5pm Mountain, 4pm Pacific)
What if your first month away from home...took place in a forest made of mirrors?
Maybe your so-called dream job was a kingdom that only appears at dusk?
Maybe that special friend was a purple rose in a garden that only blooms at midnight?
Or perhaps that trip took place on a bridge made of lanterns?
This is the realm of Marney's upcoming program: STORYWORLD MEMOIR MAGIC: A World-building Approach to Writing Your Life.
And the Free "Pocket Worlds" Event on March 24 invites you to step inside to experience it for yourself!
✨ A fresh, imaginative approach to memoir-type writing!
✨ A process that turns your memories into vivid symbolic worlds
✨ Uncanny prompts that bring your voice forward...even if you don't have writing experience or don't think you're a "good writer"
✨ A new sense of wonder, curiosity, and creative freedom around your life stories
✨ The delightful discovery of a new metaphorical world you can continue to play in!
✨ A supportive, inspiring space to play with kindred spirits
In this Free Class, Marney introduces “Pocket Worlds”: tiny, imaginative realms inspired by moments from your life.
You'll learn techniques to find these realms, and then guided, step by step, to select one memory as a metaphorical world: a place with atmosphere, texture, meaning, and hidden layers.
This is THE ultimate place for freedom and creativity that can come alive. You’ll have time to write, imagine, and explore at your own pace. There’s no “right way” to do it, no pressure to share (unless you want to), no prior writing experience needed.
Not everything in your life wants to be told in straight lines. Come to the free class to see what beautiful, unexpected worlds emerge when you dip into your pocket to find them!
The Free “Pocket Worlds” Experience is a glimpse into the deeper journey of Storyworld Memoir Magic, a 24-week, multi-part creative process where your memories transform into layered, symbolic Storyworlds. It's a wildly non-linear process that honors the factual truth of your life while expressing its deeper, symbolic truth through metaphorical worlds.
But whether or not you continue further, this free gathering on March 24 is a space just for you -- a place to reach into the pocket of your own life and see what’s waiting there.
There's no sales or hype, no pressure or performance. Just time for you and your imgination to try something new, and feel that creative spark again!
Sign up below to join us…