Meet A Mind of One's Own Writer's Psych, Alison Manning.
Alison founded A Mind of One's Own in 2013 after publishing a podcast series with Australian author, Charlotte Wood. The podcast conversations explored writers' unique psychological and emotional challenges, providing guidance and advice for writers about mind management strategies that could minimise procrastination, overwhelm, and anxiety, while increasing focused engagement with the writing work.
Alison holds a Master of Clinical Psychology and qualifications in broadcast journalism, coaching, communication and environmental management.
Now, having worked for ten years with writers providing therapy, coaching and training, Alison has distilled her understanding of the writer's mind into a new
series of workshops, retreats and coaching programs, collectively known as the
Writer Life Lab. In creating the Writer Life Lab Alison seeks to help writers cultivate effective, practical psychological strategies and emotional management skills - MindSkills - as the centrepiece of the writer's sustainable, engaged, long term writing practice.
Research
Alison has conducted research with more than 500 fiction writers exploring factors associated with writers' procrastination. Alison's 2023 research identified unique emotion regulation strategies writers use to reduce procrastination. Alison will be
teaching these Writer MindSkills to writers and writing mentors.
The Writer Life Lab programs are in development, and Alison aims to introduce them to you later in 2023. Included will be Writer's Reset Retreats, a Mind Management Essentials membership hub, and a guided coaching program helping to foster The Writing Life You Want.
Please contact Alison here if you're interested in updates about Writer Life Lab programs, or the new podcase series with author, Charlotte Wood to be released in late 2023 - A Mind of One's Own Conversations Ten Years On.
Alison founded A Mind of One's Own in 2013 after publishing a podcast series with Australian author, Charlotte Wood. The podcast conversations explored writers' unique psychological and emotional challenges, providing guidance and advice for writers about mind management strategies that could minimise procrastination, overwhelm, and anxiety, while increasing focused engagement with the writing work.
Alison holds a Master of Clinical Psychology and qualifications in broadcast journalism, coaching, communication and environmental management.
Now, having worked for ten years with writers providing therapy, coaching and training, Alison has distilled her understanding of the writer's mind into a new
series of workshops, retreats and coaching programs, collectively known as the
Writer Life Lab. In creating the Writer Life Lab Alison seeks to help writers cultivate effective, practical psychological strategies and emotional management skills - MindSkills - as the centrepiece of the writer's sustainable, engaged, long term writing practice.
Research
Alison has conducted research with more than 500 fiction writers exploring factors associated with writers' procrastination. Alison's 2023 research identified unique emotion regulation strategies writers use to reduce procrastination. Alison will be
teaching these Writer MindSkills to writers and writing mentors.
The Writer Life Lab programs are in development, and Alison aims to introduce them to you later in 2023. Included will be Writer's Reset Retreats, a Mind Management Essentials membership hub, and a guided coaching program helping to foster The Writing Life You Want.
Please contact Alison here if you're interested in updates about Writer Life Lab programs, or the new podcase series with author, Charlotte Wood to be released in late 2023 - A Mind of One's Own Conversations Ten Years On.