Our classes and workshops offer a wide range of creative experiences—from generative writing sessions and storytelling practices to trainings in creative facilitation and sustainable artistry. Each program is designed to help you connect inward with your creative voice and outward with a supportive community, blending self-discovery with artistic expression in meaningful, lasting ways.
Your twice-weekly writing membership designed to keep you accountable, consistent, and producing fresh pages. Led by author Jacqui Castle, The Write Routine gives you structured writing sessions, inspiring prompts, and a supportive community so you can finally make steady progress on your projects.
Tuesdays & Thursdays in FEBRUARY, from 12:00-2:00pm EST
📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Facilitated by Jacqui Castle
Your twice-weekly writing membership designed to keep you accountable, consistent, and producing fresh pages. Led by author Jacqui Castle, The Write Routine gives you structured writing sessions, inspiring prompts, and a supportive community so you can finally make steady progress on your projects.
Tuesdays & Thursdays in MARCH, from 12:00-2:00pm EST
📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Facilitated by Jacqui Castle
This class explores ekphrastic art—creating writing in response to other artworks—by using flash fiction, flash essay, and prose poetry to move from discussion and examples through collaborative-inspired prompts and exercises that develop short ekphrastic responses into completed pieces.
Wednesdays, March 4-25 from 6:00-8:00pm EST
📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Facilitated by Alli Marshall (I&A Certified)
In this 90-minute mini online workshop, we’ll explore the three core nervous system states and how they shape your voice on the page and in performance. Using purposeful somatic practices, you’ll learn how to move out of shutdown, settle perfectionistic spirals, and make space for the story that wants to be told, whether privately in your writing practice or publicly in front of an audience.
THREE DATES AVAILABLE | 📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Sat, Jan 17, 2026 | 1:00-2:30pm EST
Sat. Feb 21, 2026 | 1:00-2:30pm EST
Sun, Mar 21, 2026 | 1:00-2:30pm EST
Facilitated by Mariana Tirsa (I&A Certified)
Life is meant to be an artist date, that’s why we were created. —Julia Cameron
The Artist’s Way for Busy Minds is a six-week, online experimental workshop for people who feel creatively stuck, distracted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their inner voice. Rooted in the core practices of The Artist’s Way and The Artist’s Way Toolkit by Julia Cameron and thoughtfully adapted for our era of constant input, this workshop offers a gentle structure for reconnecting with creativity without pressure, perfectionism, or productivity.
CLASS | Tuesdays, March 24, 31, April 7, 14, 21, 28 from 6:15-8:15pm EST
📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Facilitated by J. Faye D’Avanza (I&A Certified).
Join certified Inward & Artward facilitators Alli Marshall and J. Faye D’Avanza for Germination Station: Planning & Producing Creative Workshops, an eight-week series for arts-based entrepreneurs ready to launch or grow educational offerings. Toolshed sessions provide practical training on securing event space, pitching creative work, self-promotion, and marketing, while Tending gatherings—four artist dates inspired by The Artist’s Way—offer conversations with a community arts entrepreneur, guided discussion, and resource sharing to foster connection and accountability. Designed for Western North Carolina creatives across disciplines, and especially supportive of Story Parlor’s Inward & Artward Creative Facilitator graduates, Germination Station builds community while offering coaching, connection, and ongoing business support.
Toolshed classes (4/2, 4/16, 4/30, 5/14)📍ONLINE delivered via ZOOM
Tending classes (4/9, 4/23, 5/7, 5/21) 📍In-person at various locations in Asheville (locations TBD)
Facilitated by J. Faye D'Avanza and Alli Marshall (I&A Certified)
An interactive four-month program on how to create and facilitate unique offerings rooted in the intersection of the creative process, personal stories, and the human condition. Tailored for folks interested in starting a new and fulfilling career path, or simply wanting to deepen their relationship to creativity and self.
IMMERSION WEEK | Monday, June 22-Saturday, June 27, 2026 | Story Parlor (Asheville, NC)
VIRTUAL MEETINGS | Tuesdays, July 7- September 29, 2026 from 6:15-9:00pm EST | ZOOM
Facilitated by I&A Founder, Erin Hallagan Clare
