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Cohort 11 Starts Tuesday, August 6th

One of our core practices at Foster is our Cohorts. This simple but powerful month-long communal practice helps us deepen into our writing and produce a piece of work that stretches us both as writers and as humans.

In Cohorts, participants explore a question, complexity, or muse that’s alive for them, write from that place, and express something meaningful. As part of the Cohort, they also have access to peer support, Office Hours with professional coaches, and professional editing via the Foster Chrome extension that they can access according to their capacity and desire.

Each Cohort is four weeks long and begins on the first Monday of the month. Cohorts can be engaged at various participation levels with low, mid, or high capacity. The minimum requirement is to join the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, which are each 90 minutes long.
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Foster Cohort 11, August 2024

Our Simplified Cohort is an introduction to Foster’s ecology of practices and provides entry-level instruction and containers for:

  • Meditation and mindful writing
  • Somatic experiencing and writing
  • Noticing & naming
  • Peer writing coaching
  • Peer review & revision
  • The concentric circling technique of sharing your work
  • Professional editing
  • Finding the others

Together, these modalities help us write from a more embodied, emotionally-rich place, navigate more directly to truths worth sharing, and move beyond various forms of resistance to publish courageously and find the others. By the end of the one-month journey you’ll be able to practice this ecology on your own, toward truer expressions of creativity and self. You’ll know how to tap into creative flow states on demand, write emotionally-rich prose, and publish in a way that finds other resonant souls online. You'll also receive a Foster Foundations certificate and NFT to signify this baseline training in Foster’s practice.

Who is this for?

  • Writers who want to go deeper into the developmental aspects of their creative practice
  • People who are familiar with these modalities and want guidance “pointing” them at writing and creative art practice
  • Writers and people who want to partake in a collective and community of practice that’s co-owned, co-operated and collectively intelligent to its core

Since Foundations includes extra attention and support for writers new to Foster’s practice, we have only 25 spots available. The next Foundations Cohort will be held in October 2024.
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An Ecology of Practices

Throughout the four weeks, writers participate in workshops that encompass mindfulness and somatic experiencing techniques to access our deepest truths as well as instruction in the craft of writing and revision to help us refine our written expression.

  1. Week 1: Be with our deepest questions, complexities and muses. Write about the emotions, thoughts, and ideas we notice arising.
  2. Week 2: Feel into what’s emerging in our body-minds as we ponder our topic. Write about how we feel about what’s arising.
  3. Week 3: Reflect on what we’ve written so far. Share with our peers and editors in Foster and revise as necessary.
  4. Week 4: Attract the resonant others. Express what we’ve written and share it with kindred spirits both inside of the Cohort.

Support Systems in Cohorts

There are four forms of support we offer during the Cohort that are optional for writers who'd like to go deeper into practice.

Writing Circles: These 90 minute containers are our foundational practice at Foster, and each one is an opportunity to share what you’re experiencing in your writing and receive support from peers.

Peer Coaching: You’ll be matched with a partner and led through a powerful peer coaching framework that you can use for breaking through barriers.

Office Hours: Our team of experienced writing coaches will hang out each week in dedicated office hours, available to dive deep into whatever is preventing you from your fullest expression.

Editorial Support: Using the Foster Chrome extension, our collective has over 50+ professional editors waiting to help you on your draft as it evolves. This could be as simple as breaking through the difficulty you’re having tying your piece together, or as open-ended as generating ideas with the help of our collective as your thought partner.

Facilitators for Cohort 11

Andrew Thomas
Facilitator
Andrew Thomas coaches individuals, founders and collectives on the transformational power of emotions, and the body, to unlock and express our deepest truths, purpose and creativity.
Elle Griffin
Facilitator
Elle Griffin writes the newsletter The Elysian, which goes out to 13K+ subscribers and has been featured in BBC, Business Insider, Fast Company, Publisher’s Weekly, Means of Creation, and Morning Brew.
Joshua Doležal
Facilitator
Joshua Doležal is a writer and award-winning teacher with 20 years of experience in publishing and editing. His work has appeared in more than 40 magazines and his memoir Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging was shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize.
Lola Martinez
Facilitator
Lola Martinez is an integration guide, breathwork facilitator, and leads partnerships + community programming at Nushama in NYC. She bridges eastern & western modalities as she supports others towards living in greater attunement.
Nat Couropmitree
Facilitator
Nat Couropmitree is a coach who works with clients to discover their own balance and what really matters to them. His Release Resistance Technique sessions have routinely helped unblock the clients and small groups he works with.
Max Nussenbaum
Facilitator
Max Nussenbaum is a spelunker, herpetologist, ultracrepidarian, propagandist, has a hook-hand. He also once won The New Yorker cartoon caption contest. He writes a newsletter called Candy for Breakfast about funny feelings, weird careers, making art, American history, and how to be alive.
Dan Hunt
Steward
Dan Hunt, Foster's founder and former head editor of an activist publication with 700K readers, writes Storyless and advises top startups on narrative design and development.
Sara Campbell
Steward
Sara Campbell is the mind behind Tiny Revolutions, a newsletter about becoming who you are, and The Fire Inside, a group coaching program for women who want to become the fiercest, truest versions of themselves.
Minnow Park
Steward
Minnow Park writes Like the Fish, a photoblog that journals lessons he’s learning as a coach and photographer.
Steph Soussloff
Steward
Steph Soussloff is an org designer, facilitator, and somatic coach with a track record in cultivating wise & enlivening ecosystems that expand what’s possible in the ways we organize, relate, create, lead, & live.
Lyle McKeany
Steward
Lyle McKeany is a writer and creative coach who writes Just Enough to Get Me in Trouble, a newsletter about the pains and joys of fatherhood and life.

Join a Foster Cohort

A simple but powerful month-long series of workshops that helps participants deepen their writing practice and produce a piece of work that stretches them both as writers and as humans.

  • Access to Foster Writing Circles, editing network, and community
  • Support from professional coaches and mentors
  • Peer coaching to forge deeper relationships with others
  • Expert-led workshops designed to help you unlock your best writing
  • 100% Money Back Guarantee

$400

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