Workshops
Natalie offers The Spiritual Alchemist workshop—as well as five other transformational workshops—in North America and Europe. She is now scheduling her transformational workshops primarily upon request. These workshops often take place in private homes, places of worship, institutions of higher learning, centers for the arts, etc.
If you wish to arrange for Natalie to give a workshop in your area, please visit the Contact page and email Natalie the particulars of your request. She will explain how the process works, including that whoever arranges all the logistics can take the workshop(s) for free.
Natalie’s Transformational Workshops:
The Spiritual Alchemist: Working with the Voice of Your Soul
Class Duration: an evening and a day, two half-days, or one full weekend
The Spiritual Alchemist is an in-depth workshop in learning to listen to, engage with, and create from the voice of one’s own soul—our purest source of wisdom, creativity, and inspiration. It is the voice that can reveal our true purpose for this lifetime, and help us navigate and overcome all obstacles to our emotional and spiritual growth.
Through a series of engaging exercises, participants begin learning spiritual alchemy, a practice involving nonlinear forms of organizing, thinking, writing, and understanding. They discover how to create and work in a profoundly life-changing inner “laboratory” that transforms habitual ways of perceiving time, self, and the world. They ultimately develop a form of listening that bypasses normal channels of perception—conscious and unconscious—and takes them straight to the heart of the divine spark within. What they learn will help them set their life’s compass—as the ancients did—by their soul’s intent.
The Spiritual Alchemist is for all creative, spiritual, or growth-oriented people who wish to deepen their self-knowledge, strengthen their inner connection to the divine, and find the key to the purest source of creativity they have.
“It was as if all my previous work had been to empty myself of everything that wasn’t real, so that I could come to this workshop and be totally filled with what is real and true about myself.”
workshop participant (The Spiritual Alchemist)
From Falsehood to Freedom: Writing Our Way Out of the Masks We Wear
Class Duration: one day, two consecutive evenings, or one evening followed by a half-day
[The Spiritual Alchemist is a prerequisite.]
[often given with The Spiritual Alchemist in one full weekend]
From early childhood, all of us have created various personas—personal masks that bind us to small personal “truths” and keep us from tapping into the larger Truth, the source of wisdom and creativity. In this one-day workshop, we learn to recognize and write our way out of our three major masks: the mask we wear to the world, the mask we wear to our closest friends, and the mask with which we face ourselves.
The Spiritual Alchemist workshop is a prerequisite to From Falsehood to Freedom, because the participants’ primary tool will be one they developed in the earlier workshop. Using this tool, we will face, melt, and transform our masks, thereby freeing ourselves and our creative energy for new, insightful, and exciting writing.
Writing in the Mythological Voice: Elevating the Mundane Into Myth
Class Duration: half-day, one-day, or weekend
While writing fiction or memoir roots us in a particular time and place, elevating our truths into the mythological language of ancient story-telling allows us to reach more people—and more profoundly—with the same message. Writing in the mythological voice takes us out of this time and place—and out of ourselves—into a timeless space of archetypes and magic, a space from which our deepest truths emerge. We will learn how to transform humdrum, boring, and taken-for-granted parts of our daily lives into powerful writing that touches people at all levels of their consciousness.
Firing the Sacred Furnace: Writing from the Center of Your Fears
Class Duration: one-day
Creative people usually find it easy to express emotions such as love and hate. And, being intimate with our pains, we rarely have trouble describing what hurts us. The one emotion that most of us avoid exploring is fear. Because maintaining our fears uses up a huge amount of energy, this experiential workshop helps writers, as well as artists in all other media, to free that energy and convert it into powerful creative work.
Facing our fears in a self-created “fiery furnace” results in dramatic, exciting writing. With guidance from the sacred inner fires of our own truths, we learn to create, fire, and enter the furnace at will, using not only present but past fears as fuel. Above all, we learn that all fears, revisited, still fuel and stoke our greatest creative fires.
Don’t Waste Your Crisis: Reaching for Joy in the Midst of Chaos
Class Duration: half-day or full day
Betrayal, illness, divorce, job loss—any crisis can destroy our illusions of safety and stability. A survivor’s workshop for people stretched beyond their normal coping limits, this workshop teaches anyone whose external or internal support structures are collapsing the remarkable lessons of transforming fear-based living into joy-based living. Participants learn a practical, long-term behavioral practice extrapolated from meditation practice (including but not limited to mindfulness), allowing them to permanently integrate their transformational insights into the rest of their lives.
Writing in the Inspired Voice
Class Duration: half-day or evening
When we approach our creative work, many of us equate inspiration with lightning—as something that strikes at random. But inspiration is around us at all times, and we can learn to tap into it at will. Inspiration, after all, means the act of breathing in that which is outside of us. This workshop will focus on forming the intent to call inspiration in, creating the space in which to receive it, and learning how to “breathe back” what we have been given in a way that honors our intent to receive.
We will discover new techniques for hearing the “voice” of inspiration without interference, and to work with it in a committed way. We will also learn to distinguish that voice from the voices of ego, fear, and the internalized critic.
Praise for Natalie Reid’s Workshops
0I came away with a clear roadmap for the next section of my life.Judith P., Duanesburg, NY
1The workshop with Natalie assured me that I am connected with the universe and doing what I am supposed to be doing, wherever the opportunity presents itself.Carol P., Burtonsville, MD
2Your workshop offers a unique and innovative approach to divine expression.Michael D., Eugene, OR
3Natalie Reid is an architect of rooms of the mind.Linda H., Columbus, OH
4I loved the exercises because they bypassed our head. They simply led us into our own inner world and the stories that live there—not fictional stories. True stories. The stories that guide us and shape our lives. Thank you for that gift.Marian G., Boston, MA
5Natalie’s work is wonderfully playful and powerfully supportive of where I am in my own creative and spiritual process. Her mystical voice, wedded with very practical tools and unusual techniques, helped shift my view of my life ‘as is’ and the possibilities for change.Yael F., Washington, DC
6The exercises in your workshops are powerful, as they bring up a lot of hidden or unconscious material. Your gentle way of helping people to cope with what they have uncovered is what makes you special. From the beginning, when you spoke about the work involved, the sincerity and dedication to that unfolding that was in your voice appealed to many, including me. The work begun with you was a further unfolding of the soulfulness to which I aspire.Claudette W., Bayside, NY
7The workshop spoke to a part of me that hadn’t been ‘fed’ in a long time.Joann G., Alexandria, VA
8I now see that what people do with the results of what they write in your workshop is that every word, every single syllable, is potentially (and literally) the key to their life.Rasma H., Madison, WI
9Natalie Reid’s new workshop offers an immensely safe space. In addition to the brilliant information she provides and the journey experiences she creates for her voyagers, one of the things that makes it so powerful and effective is Natalie’s overall emphasis on the participants’ well being.Paula M., Oradell, NJ
10You created a very safe non-judgmental atmosphere, which was very important and very liberating.Monica B., London, UK
11Natalie Reid is a wise woman who helps others look inside and find the riches within. She creates a supportive environment where you can face the darkness and walk through it secure that you will get to the other side. She helps bring you to a greater understanding of who you are and what you need to flourish. She brings a wealth of knowledge that she balances with a deep regard for the spirit and heart of all living things.Leslie N., Niskayuna, NY
12Natalie is the best at nourishing and nurturing tools to draw out spirit-centered writing. She takes you into your own inner, mythic realms, to infinitely access and create from.Jen K., Santa Fe, NM
13Natalie Reid is the Alchemist of Soul-chitecture. Her powerful workshop led me on a heroine’s journey through the many rooms of my own soul. Natalie gently opened all the doors and gave me the courage and strength to cross thresholds, and to begin the awesome process of honoring each room’s intention.Anne S., Kerrville, TX
14It was as if all my previous work had been to empty myself of everything that wasn’t real, so that I could come to this workshop and be totally filled with what is real and true about myself.Ann G., Tiburon, CA
15Thanks again for being such an open and nurturing guide during the workshop. The way you live your life fuels me with the courage to evolve more boldly!Stacey M., Queensbury, NY