About Writual and Chantal
Writual is the pause you didn’t know you needed. A community where words and energy are the pathway to connection with ourselves and others. But it’s not a book club, a meditation class or a writing course. It’s a place of safety, inspiration and belonging.
I’ve guided circles for everyone from C-level executives to artists, writers, full-time mothers, students, and retirees. Despite the different backgrounds, the result is the same: people finding a rare sense of pause, new insights into themselves, ideas for their lives and work, and a deeper connection with others. Quite often, they rediscover a creative side to themselves they didn’t know was still there.
Writual offers ways to get away from the day-to-day and find rest and flow. In Buddhism, it’s called Citta-passaddhi (tranquillity of the mental factors), or in neuroscience, it’s called the Alpha Bridge – a place where we turn down the volume on the inner critic so we can hear what the heart and body want to tell us.
So whether through poetry, story, qi gong or an expressive writing circle, you’ll come away feeling as if you’ve just meditated for two hours – nourished, rested and reconnected to yourself. And ready for the rest of your week.
A note on Creativity and Creative Expression: I hear so many times, ‘But I am not creative,’ But creativity is an innately human process. We are creating all the time; when we plan, solve, build, write an email, or cook dinner! But many of us have forgotten this about ourselves. I create the conditions - safety, inspiration and belonging - that allow your innate creativity to thrive and the words you want to express come forth. And with that flow comes that feeling of nourishment and rest.
A note to writers: We can get so caught up in craft, technique, literariness and getting published that we’ve forgotten what drew us to writing in the first place: A love of language, the power of expression and the feelings it can evoke in us and, the connecting power of story. Writual brings us back to that place of inspiration making these sessions highly generative. You’ll come away with a new ideas for stories, poems, essays and more.
ABOUT CHANTAL
Chantal Travers is a writer, facilitator and the founder of Writual.
She believes deeply that everyone has the capacity to create when given the right conditions of emotional safety, inspiration and belonging. As such Writual combines energy practices that facilitate health, connection and creative flow with the power of expression allowing words, wisdom, ideas, and stories, held within the body to emerge. Writual is about creativity, connection and community.
Chantal is a qualified Qi Gong Teacher (Ren Xue Yuan Gong Level 1), certified Shared Reading Facilitator, and recently completed a certificate in Expressive Writing Therapies. She is also currently in the process of completing an MA in Creative Writing and Literature.
Chantal is the author of A Singapore Christmas Delight Children’s Picture Book, and her poetry and prose have been published in several literary journals. She is also currently writing a novel, the idea for which was selected as one of ten from 97 applicants for the Faber Academy year-long novel writing programme. In between this she sometimes mentors small business owners, writes copy and is a freelance brand, strategy and communications planner.
Originally from London, UK, Chantal has lived in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore. She founded and ran two award-winning retail businesses and prior to that, had an 18-year career in marketing. She lives in Sydney with her Australian husband and son.