The IWWI Way
These are challenging times: change is upon us.
Pandemic disruption, war, natural disaster. Big change. Planetary change. Social change. Political change.
Trust is the antidote to change.
For families and communities to be well, we need you to be well, as well as is your capacity to be well.
Writing is a health and wellbeing resource at everyone’s fingertips. Writing gives us language: a pathway in, a pathway through, and a pathway out of trouble.
How will you navigate the days ahead?
The International Wellbeing-through-writing Institute has developed a transformational writing method for navigating challenge and change.
The IWWI method is a proven tool for accessing the self-aligned language we need for sustaining wellness at home and in the workplace.
Change is upon us. The world needs us well.
You’ve got this. We’ve got this. Trust yourself. Trust change.
WRITING
SUPPORT
PROGRAMS
* book writing support
* new & unpublished writers
* 1-1 writing coaching
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
TRAINING
* specialist wellbeing-through-writing training
* facilitation & workshop development training
ACADEMIC
WRITING
SUPPORT
* Write the Book of the Thesis
* languaging academic ideas
* 1-1 thesis writing support
Workshops, programs & events
Online wellbeing-through-writing workshops, programs and events. In-person community programs on request.
Training
Offering a range of training programs, including personal and professional development for individuals and organisations, and group facilitation training.
Writing support
Writing programs for new and experienced writers, including academics, students and PhD writing support. Individual writing coaching available.
Connecting community
Specialising in overcoming isolation. Workshops and programs for individuals and communities in recovery.
2025 CALENDAR IN BRIEF
ONLINE PROGRAMS – live facilitators
- 3 Feb-24 Feb > Write of Passage for new & unpublished writers
- 5 Feb-12 Mar > Ultreia! book writing support program
- 4 + 11 Mar > Online facilitation & workshop development training
- 6-27 Mar > Write the Book of the Thesis
Generous discounts for pre-Christmas bookings.
EVENTS
- 7-12 April > Bali women’s wellbeing writing retreat
- 28 April-8 May > Walk & Write Camino
UPCOMING – details to be announced
- UK tour dates > 17-28 May.
New release! Journaling guidebook
Writing is good medicine: A state-of-the-art guidebook for transformation, growth, self-discovery and recovery.
Based on the work and research of wellbeing writing specialist Dr Stephanie Dale PhD, Write Your Way Home is the journaling handbook for our times.
Write Your Way Home offers journaling guidance, tools and techniques for women seeking to understand the personal mythologies that shape their lives, combining ancient wisdom with modern sensibilities.
Bali women’s wellbeing writing retreat 2025
Bali 2025: Activate your genius
An opportunity for women to engage in inspired, purposeful, restive time out.
We use writing, rest and renewal as pathways to wellbeing.
Walk & Write Camino 2025
Walk & Write Camino 2025: Trust in The Way
Enjoy the camaraderie of a merry band of walking writing pilgrims along the final stage of one of the world’s great pilgrimages: The Camino.
We’ll be wandering the lush landscapes of Galicia: 11 days, 115kms, Sarria-Santiago de Compostela.
Dr Stephanie Dale
IWWI founder Dr Stephanie Dale is an acclaimed specialist in the wellbeing-through-writing field. She has 10 years’ experience running wellbeing-through-writing programs in rural and remote areas of Australia, as well as in the UK. Stephanie has a background in journalism and specialises in working with isolated people and communities, including those in recovery from natural disaster and newly literate Indigenous adults.
“… the catalyst for my new life after farming.”
“… enabled me to answer questions about myself.”
“… enabled me to produce a book with some pride.”
“I feel bold, proud n creatively free. Such a release.”
“… thank you for your teaching. We all love it so much.”
Signature online program > live with Dr Stephanie Dale
ULTREIA! BOOK WRITING SUPPORT PROGRAM
A book writing intensive for people who want to dive right in and get their book written.
Ultreia is a pilgrim word. It means ‘keep moving forward”. This program is modelled on the principles of pilgrimage.
Ultreia offers guidance, encouragement and support to plan your book, structure your book, write your book.
Entry module six weeks, small groups, facilitated live online with Dr Stephanie Dale.
Thank you for being a book doula. This book has been gestating for a long time and without your teaching it would have remained a pipe dream. Your ability to support us to harness emotion and feeling is truly a gift.
Other online programs > live facilitators
INVOKING THE HEROINE’S JOURNEY
Many women have found solace and insight in The Heroine’s Journey. A deep well of wisdom that offers fresh guidance every time you revisit it.
CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR BODIES
Hear your body’s voice through writing. If your body could speak, what would it say? Have you ever had a conversation with it on the page?
WRITE THE BOOK OF THE THESIS
4 -week writing support program for MPhils and PhDs.
Transform you thesis into a book, develop a pitch for publishers, sustain a regular writing practice.
“Incredibly brilliant, beautifully authentic, inspiring.”
Dr Clare Finegan
“I loved this workshop. I could channel into the bad stuff but I learnt how to connect back to the good stuff. It made me feel amazeballs.”
Embodied Journaling (addiction recovery)
“To all the writers out there, you do not have to be a writer as such like you think it means. I highly recommend this course. It’s personal, heartwarming, beautifully confronting. It’s safe. You will be in awe of yourself.”
Write of Passage participant
“I am not the person I was back when I began this writing – THANK YOU for the part you have played in this.”
Write of Passage participant
“Honestly, not posting this to brag, but sitting here, humbled and grateful, I knew deep in my soul that the universe would give me confidence I was seeking if I was brave enough to put it all on the page. Thank you universe, and thank you Stephanie Dale, for believing in me, when I didn’t.”
Write of Passage participant
“Very inspiring. I am completely motivated and excited to explore my writing. Stephanie is an encouraging and knowledgeable teacher. I am thrilled I decided to attend this workshop.”
Drought recovery workshop participant
“TBH it was shit at the start then I started to like it.”
Embodied Journaling (Indigenous teen)
Professional development training
Wellbeing writing for therapists
LOCH: transformational writing model
Facilitation training and workshop development
Online facilitation and workshop development training for people who want to transform their skills, passion and expertise into workshops. This workshop is suitable for anyone, regardless of the focus of your work or ideas.
The International Wellbeing-through-writing Institute
A visionary home for the wellbeing-through-writing sector.
The International Wellbeing-through-writing Institute is on a mission: to promote the value of writing as an affordable, effective, everyday resource for health and wellbeing. We also focus on growing sustainable niche businesses for practitioners in the sector.
These are challenging times. Writing is good medicine.
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