Mindful Memoir
A 12-week course for writers who want to go deep with their own story
Your life has stories inside it that only you can tell. Stories that have shaped you, healed you, broken you open and made you who you are. And beneath the facts and the timelines, there is something truer — a living, breathing account of what it meant to be you, in this body, in this life.
Using embodied writing practices, mindfulness and somatic awareness, we unlock the memories that live not just in the mind but in the body — the ones that resist the page until you find the right way in.
Reasons to join Mindful Memoir
Your Story Deserves to Be Told
Your Story Deserves to Be Told
Your Story Deserves to Be Told
Memoir is an act of bearing witness — to your experiences, your becoming, the life you have lived and the person you are still growing into. This course gives you the container, the community and the craft tools to bring that story into the light.
Writing From the Body
Your Story Deserves to Be Told
Your Story Deserves to Be Told
This course goes beyond craft into the living heart of your story. Through embodied writing practices, mindfulness and carefully crafted teaching, you are guided to access the memories and meanings that are waiting to find their way to the page.
A Small, Safe Community
Your Story Deserves to Be Told
A Small, Safe Community
Memoir asks vulnerability. With a maximum of 12 writers, this is an intimate, carefully held space — one where you can share what's real, receive honest reflection, and know your story matters to the people in the room with you.
Your memoir writing guide
Amanda Saint
Amanda is the founder of The Mindful Writer, the author of three novels, and a writing guide and mentor who has spent 15 years helping writers go deeper into their own stories.
What she has learned, most of all, is that memoir is a healing art. That the act of writing your life — honestly, with care, with the whole body present — is one of the most transformative things you can do. She writes her own memoir pieces on The Mindful Writer Substack, bringing the same honesty and courage to the page that she invites from the writers she guides.
An accredited mindfulness mentor, meditation teacher, Yoga Nidra teacher, journal therapist and Reiki practitioner, Amanda brings the full range of her contemplative practice into her teaching. She knows what it is to discover your own story on the page — to find out, through the act of writing, what you have actually been living. That is what she is here to guide you to do.
What's included in your journey
12 Online Lessons
6 Live Embodied Writing Sessions
6 Live Embodied Writing Sessions
A rich, structured body of teaching delivered through your private course space — including craft guidance, mindfulness practices and writing prompts. Work through the material in your own time, at your own pace.
6 Live Embodied Writing Sessions
6 Live Embodied Writing Sessions
6 Live Embodied Writing Sessions
Amanda guides you through a somatic awareness practice to settle into the body, then leads you into deep writing through carefully crafted prompts. Sessions run every two weeks at 4pm UK time. The first session is Wednesday 16 September 2026.
Private Community Space
6 Live Embodied Writing Sessions
Private Community Space
Share your responses to the course prompts in your private group space, receive brief written reactions from Amanda, and offer and receive peer reflection throughout the 12 weeks. Your community is part of your writing practice.
Costs
Early Bird Pricing until 31st July 2026
Mindful Memoir is application-only because the intimacy of the space matters. With just 12 places, we want to make sure it's the right fit for everyone in the room. Here is how you can join if you are accepted:
Early bird: £400 — book by 31st July and save £95
Early bird payment plan: 3 × £145 — book by 31st July
Full price: £495
Payment plan: 3 × £175
Refund policy: If you change your mind before the course starts, refunds are available up until 6th September, minus a £75 admin fee. Once the course begins, no refunds are available.