a creative writing workshop
Finding Creativity with the Help of RageAt this current time in history, are you noticing that you have to tune out or numb out completely in order to survive? Join Sarah Peyton for a six-week creativity course to connect your rage with love and find your voice.
In these challenging times, anger and rage can be powerful catalysts for personal and collective change. But how often do we connect our rage with love, and understand the deeper motivations behind our emotional responses?
In this six-week writing workshop, we’ll explore how engaging with Jaak Panksepp’s theory of the RAGE circuit can help us understand and express anger in a way that is linked to our capacity for love, compassion, and protection.
Panksepp’s work identifies the RAGE system as a vital part of our emotional and motivational circuits—a system shared by all mammals, essential for self-defense and the defense of others. Right now, as we witness a world where people and communities are under attack, the RAGE circuit is more alive than ever, and understanding it is essential for creative expression and personal liberation.
Through this course, we’ll dive into the neuroscience behind the RAGE circuit and its connection to both our anger and the love we hold for those we care about. You’ll learn how to tap into your anger in a way that serves you, your creativity, and your well-being. We’ll explore the ways that unmediated rage can harm us—causing physical stress, anxiety, and depression—and how linking it to love can allow for more peaceful, powerful, and creative expression.
Together, we’ll examine the role of anger in our emotional and creative lives, and reclaim it as a positive force for change, understanding, and growth. You’ll learn tools to manage your anger without repressing it, and to let it flow through your body in a healthier, more liberated way.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of your own RAGE circuit and how it connects to your creative expression. You’ll leave with practical tools to balance anger and love, unlocking more freedom in your writing and creative work. Join us in a safe, resonant space to explore and express your anger and love in a way that fuels your creative life and supports your emotional well-being.
This 6-week course runs from May 6, 2025 – June 17, 2025
We will meet online from 8:00 AM-9:25 AM PDT | 11:00 AM EDT | 4:00 PM BST (convert to your time zone here)
Where?
The course will meet via zoom. We welcome participants from all time zones who wish to learn asynchronously for some or all of the sessions. Recordings and visuals will be made available to those who are registered for the live program (typically available within 72 hours of the live session).
When?
This 6-week course runs from May 6, 2025 – June 17, 2025, skipping May 20, 2025 with classes meeting each Tuesday morning from 8:00 AM – 9:25 AM Pacific Time (To convert to your time zone, please click here)
What to Expect:
A warm space that creates room for the flow from thought into expression, support and resonant feedback, all in service of unblocking your creativity and more fluid expression.
In each 85-minute class, we will:
- Begin with a free writing period
- Explore the relational neuroscience connected to the RAGE circuit, and how it impacts the ability to express and stay self-connected.
- Experience a resonance exercise or demonstration to support the movement toward free expression
- Continue with a second free writing period
- Create space for sharing and resonant responses to each other’s work
The classes will be recorded for participants in many time zones.
What You'll Learn Each Week:
Week 1 – May 6, 2025: Intro to the RAGE Circuit
Week 2 – May 13, 2025: RAGE and the Larger World
Week 3 – May 27, 2025: How to Heal Trauma’s Impact on RAGE
Week 4 – June 3, 2025: Releasing Contracts the Block RAGE
Week 5 – June 10, 2025: Playing with RAGE
Week 6 – June 17, 2025: Celebrating the Gifts of RAGE
**Skipping May 20, 2025
Who Is This Course For?
For writers, artists, explorers and creatives looking for a resonant space in which to support their creative expression. The creative process work that we’ll explore in this class is for anyone involved in, or longing to be involved in, any kind of creative pursuit.
This Course Includes Resonant Assistant Support
Get assistant support during classes – experience resonant support from experienced practitioners when you need it during class times. Often, this work can have unexpected depth and touch on deeply held subconscious awareness and pain. Getting support when we need it most helps participants to integrate, regulate, and have a felt experience of the transformative power of resonance.
Cost
$175-$400
- This course is set up so that participants can contribute what they can.
- Please choose a variation that considers your financial resources as well as the contribution you would like to offer Sarah and her team.
- The standard tuition for this course is $300. If you choose to pay more, your contribution will go toward supporting those with fewer resources to attend.
Register
Finding Creativity with the Help of Rage
$175.00 – $400.00
*PLEASE NOTE:
- Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
- This course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
- This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.
About the Instructor
Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal personal and collective trauma with exquisite gentleness.
Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.
Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.
