Surf Your Creativity 

The 5-week Saboteurs & Superpowers Series 

With Ann Imig & Steph Sprenger

APRIL 6TH - MAY 8TH

If we love to swim in creative waters, why do we find it so hard to get in, stay in, or God forbid enjoy ourselves when we do? 

 

Imagine if you could create a surfboard for your writing practice that you could rely on no matter how big the waves of busyness, disappointment, or insecurity.

 

In this 5-week workshop, we will explore the 10 saboteurs that add stress to life’s challenges, limit our options, and negatively impact our relationships, performance, and wellbeing.

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In this workshop, we will dip our toes into Positive Intelligence® concepts by learning to identify and begin disrupting the patterns we all have that keep us stuck.

 

We all experience stress, frustration, or self-doubt in our writing and in life. These feelings aren't just random— they’re often triggered by patterns in our minds called saboteurs. They’re automatic habits we pick up early in life that quietly shape how we react to challenges, often without us realizing it.

 

Together, we’ll learn tools to help us get out of our own way creatively—to more easily find that flow state we all crave—and strategies to help us go with the flow when things get challenging. 
 
[Bonus: you might find a bit more ease in your relationships and wellness, too!] 

 

When it comes to our writing, saboteurs can show up in a few common ways: 

  • Perfectionism
  • Procrastination
  • Comparison
  • Fear of failure (or success!)
  • Writer's Block
  • Relentless ambition or overachieving
  • Moving from project to project without following through
  • Censoring yourself due to fear of criticism or judgment

"Our weekly meetings felt like a creative breakthrough combined with group therapy."

-2025 participant

This workshop will include: 

 

 ✓ Weekly Zoom sessions with Ann Imig, MSW and certified Positive Intelligence® coach

âś“ Guided meditations/visualizations

✓ The Positive Intelligence® saboteur assessment

âś“ A free individual 50-minute breakthrough session with Ann

âś“ A private online space for discussion, weekly lessons, and writing prompts

✓ Community support via Zoom and online forum

"It is never too late or too egotistical or too selfish to do something for yourself."

-Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way

In our five weeks together, you’ll come to understand which saboteurs might impact you the most significantly, and how to begin accessing the superpowers and gifts that lie beneath them.

 

You’ll learn:

  • An overview of the concept of saboteurs and how they impact stress levels, wellbeing, relationships, and performance
  • What your individual saboteurs are and how they get in the way of your creativity, writing practice, and goals
  • An easy and quick practice to disrupt these patterns and reclaim a sense of ease and flow in your creative life
  • How to work with your system to tap into your superpowers and allow your unique gifts to shine—in your writing and beyond

Here’s what each week looks like: 

  • Mondays at 1 pm EST: A Zoom meeting with Ann (live attendance optional) with a lesson overviewing the “saboteurs of the week." Video/audio replay will be available later that day.
  • Wednesdays: a reading, exercise, and discussion topic related to the week’s theme will be posted in our online forum
  • Fridays: a related writing prompt will be posted in the forum, as well as an optional community check-in on Zoom

April 6th-May 8th

Surf Your Creativity: The 5-week Saboteurs & Superpowers Series with Ann Imig & Steph Sprenger

✓  Weekly Zoom sessions with Ann Imig, MSW and certified Positive Intelligence®  coach

✓  Guided meditations/visualizations

✓   Positive Intelligence® saboteur assessment

✓  A free individual 50-minute breakthrough session with Ann 

✓  A private online space for discussion, weekly lessons, and writing prompts

✓  Community support via Zoom and online forum

ONE TIME PAYMENT OF $189 →
TWO PAYMENTS OF $95 →

Ann Imig

An MSW and certified coach, Ann helps burned-out moms regain their mojo, crush their goals, and fuel their joy at home and work. In 2010, she created the storytelling series (and then book) titled LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER. Almost 15 years later, LTYM continues Giving Motherhood A Microphone on stages across North America (70 cities and counting). Schedule a free breakthrough session with Ann at listenlifecoaching.com.

 

Steph Sprenger

Steph is a writer, editor, producer, and podcaster. She has facilitated creative writing workshops for women for the past decade, including The Artist's Way for the Midlife Woman. Her memoir, NOSTALGIA JUNKIE is forthcoming from Third Rail Press, and she is editor-in-chief of the literary magazine THREE. 

 

April 6th-May 8th

Join us for 5 weeks of connection, creativity, and discovery in a supportive, safe space.

ONE TIME PAYMENT OF $189 →
TWO PAYMENTS OF $95 →

The Pause:

A creative community for midlife women

The Pause is a creative community for midlife women who feel something shifting and want space to explore what comes next. It is a place to write, reflect, connect, and create alongside other thoughtful, engaged women who are asking bigger questions about this season of life. There is room here for honesty, reinvention, and the kind of conversations that do not always happen in everyday spaces. We prioritize our craft along with ourselves, nurturing our intuition and wellness alongside our writing practice. If you are craving depth, momentum, and real connection, you belong here. 

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