Bestselling Author’s Intensive with Gay Hendricks

Writing your book begins with a vision for what you’d most like to deliver. Once you gain clarity, you need to find and access the creative voice that’s at the heart of a great book. If your vision is aligned with your deeper self and your voice is true and real, your words and story come to life. If not, they don’t. In this teaching session, you’ll begin by exploring what it takes to clarify your vision. You’ll then examine Gay’s unique system for discovering the right voice that communicates the essence of what you have to share.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The power of clarifying your vision and continually working with it in your subconscious through daily practices, including how to frame it in positive language
• Techniques to enter the deeper psychology of your desired audience so you can better write with the audience in mind
• A time-tested system for identifying what’s authentic and true for you, as well as how to tell when you’re writing from that source
• Practices that help you engage with your place of deepest authenticity as you write
• How to make the essential inner commitments that create success and the action plan for getting there
• A simple formula for creating a consistent flow of creative productivity throughout the process
• How to develop a daily writing discipline that works for you and generates results

In this unique session, which provides the core marketing foundation you’ll need, Gay will be joined by bestselling author, publisher and renowned teacher Arielle Ford to discuss the business of books and how Arielle transitioned to being an author by trusting to write from her heart. This session with one of our country’s most successful book publicists is sure to help guide you toward your bestselling work. Gay will also spend some time exploring some of his favorite writing rituals and routines.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover how to write from your heart with the reader in mind
• Gain a foundational understandings of how the book industry works and what it takes to break through with a major title
• Access your voice with integrity in a way that generates intimacy with your audience
• Understand the foundation of public relations and how it’s an essential adjunct to your writing career and invaluable for propelling your book into the limelight

Arielle Ford is a leading personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 25 years she’s been living, teaching and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. She’s a gifted writer and the author of eight books, including Wabi Sabi Love: The Ancient Art of Finding Perfect Love in Imperfect Relationships, and the international bestseller, The Soulmate Secret: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction. She’s been called “The Cupid of Consciousness” and “The Fairy Godmother of Love.”

The main challenge for writers often isn’t the actual skill of writing — it’s learning how to deal with the resistance that arises when we seek to express our full potential in the world. This is where the vast majority of writers fail on the path to creating a bestseller; they simply get bogged down in energy-draining patterns.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• A unique, reliable way to re-channel the energy of your inner saboteur so that you don’t get trapped in old patterns that limit your success
• How to successfully navigate procrastination with ease
• How to use Gay’s FACT process to identify deeper levels of resistance and work with your blocks in a healthy way
• Habits to build into your daily writing regimen which prevent common energy-draining patterns from setting in
• How to identify any areas in which you have an “Upper Limit” problem and how to release it
• How to address areas in which you may not be working from your zone of genius, which undermines your success

There are several tools, tips and tricks that can make a writer’s life much easier and more successful. Unfortunately, Gay says, “I didn’t know any of them when I started out. Most of them I had to learn the ‘hard way.’ These are the tips, tricks and tools I wish I’d had 30 years ago, and it’s my hope that sharing them will save you a lot of unnecessary ‘hard way’ learning.” Gay’s tips and tools range from the practical to the metaphysical.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• A step-by-step formula for creative fulfillment and financial success
• How to harness the power of “The Screenplay Shortcut” to give yourself a sense of completion, right from the beginning
• Strategies to “collapse time” and generate more output with less effort

Skilled writers often instinctively follow a pattern of writing that works with both the left and right hemisphere of their brain, engaging the all-important limbic system. When you discover how to consciously do this and apply it to your work, your writing becomes more impactful because it harnesses the natural brain patterns of your readers in a way that “hooks” them in. Gay has created a unique and highly usable formulation of this knowledge in a system called ConExCon.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• How to engage both the left and right hemisphere of your readers’ brains in a way that compels them to keep reading, whether you’re writing nonfiction or fiction
• How to effectively produce more in one hour than you used to do in a full day

Writing a book requires a special set of skills; one of the most important is the art of storytelling. It’s one thing to hear a story you enjoy; it’s another to read one that truly transforms. Creating an experience that takes the reader to their depths requires abundant levels of soul-searching, vulnerability and craft. This skill differentiates an author from a bestselling author like no other. It’s what turns readers into rabid fans of your work — and word-of-mouth marketers on your behalf.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• Why most movies have a 3-act structure and how to apply this model to your own approach to stories
• How memoir writers create the compelling voice that hooks the reader into their story. For example, is your voice that of a Discoverer, a Reluctant Hero, a Wounded Healer or some new voice we haven’t heard before?
• The screenwriting secret that Ron Bass (who wrote Rain Man and many other hit movies) showed Gay, which provides structure and energizes your creativity

In the exciting world of blogs, Facebook and the Internet, expanding your marketing reach has never been easier. Writers are essentially solo entrepreneurs, and those who understand the basic rules and principles of entrepreneurial marketing can turn even a part-time writing career into a lucrative business. This module will complement the core teachings from Module 2 with Arielle Ford.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• Tips and techniques related to platform building, social media, alliances, partnerships and more (Gay is a MASTER at building win-win partnerships)
• How to recognize your genius — and outsource areas that lie outside your core interests and skills
• The most important criteria to look for in partnering with agents and publishers
• How to design a bestselling book campaign (and more importantly, what NOT to do)

The Bestselling Author’s Intensive provides you with a powerful foundation of support for your creative process. But then what? In this final module, Gay will focus on the disciplines every writer needs to cultivate in order to sustain their creative momentum and do great work. He’ll share secrets for sustaining productivity, self-care, positive psychology and accountability, and for creating systems of support that liberate your creative genius.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• How to build writing disciplines into your daily routine… as well as when to give yourself appropriate time off
• The art of ongoing visualization, which helps you keep the channels of creativity open
• How to open up a creative place inside you and ground yourself in a deep commitment to your creative essence
• The importance of claiming responsibility for dedication to your craft — the kind of passionate commitment to living out loud that keeps you inspired