Each day will include dedicated writing time, inspiration, practical teachings, and time for community and connection.

We’ll begin each day with a short centering/grounding time so you can fully arrive, followed by some opening teaching from Tara.

We’ll then do guided warm up writing prompts (and you’ll be surprised at how much they open things up and get the words flowing for you!).

Then, we’ll turn to focused writing time together, where you’ll have dedicated time and space to write, alongside a supportive community.

In our writing sessions, there will also be optional opportunities for small group discussion and sharing.

After a renewing break, Tara will host a Q&A and Coaching time where you can bring your questions, dilemmas, stuck places about writing, creativity, publishing and more.

You can attend whichever parts work for you. We have a two hour community writing / learning time each day, followed by a break time and then a one hour Q&A and Coaching session. Beyond that, you can spend additional time writing during the retreat days, using the tools and ideas we are covering in the sessions — that’s up to you!

All of our sessions will be recorded and posted within 24 hours, available as video and audio recordings, so you can participate in the timing that works for you. We also provide full written transcripts. You’ll have access to these recordings for a full year (plus the option to download all materials as yours to keep forever) so you can also re-create the retreat experience for yourself anytime you could use some extra support. If you watch the recordings rather than join live, you can also participate in our interactive online discussion group as an alternative way to connect with other retreat participants.

So glad you asked! The first thing for you to know is, yes, we have women from all over the world participating in our online programs. On average, 40% of our program participants live outside the U.S., and span over twenty countries.

Many women have questions about making the timing of the program work. If the live call times don’t work for you, you can access the recordings anytime, and do the retreat on your own timeline.

Still have questions? Send us a message (via the chat button on the bottom right corner of your screen) and we would love to chat with you.

The cost of the program is $365 USD, and includes year-long access to the recordings, and lifetime access to the workshop materials.

Yes, we offer scholarships. Priority for scholarships goes to women who are part of communities that are underserved by coaching and personal growth support, or for women who center underserved communities in their work. If that’s you and you would like to apply for a scholarship, please contact our team at playingbig (at) taramohr (dot) com for an application. Scholarship applications close on Friday, December 11th.

You’ll be able to download all session recordings and materials so that you can access them for as long as you’d like to!

If you’ve attended or viewed the first day of the retreat and find it’s not for you, simply request a cancellation of your registration to receive a refund.

In this retreat, our focus will be on writing, with both independent time for writing, as well as writing prompts, teachings and Q&A’s. In the Playing Big program, our focus is on learning tools and practices to play bigger in our lives and work.

Ensuring diversity and inclusion has been a key part of our work in designing our programs from early on. Here are some of the ways we’ve done that throughout the past several years:

• We regularly gather feedback on the course experiences of women of color, and ensure that programs are impactful, relevant and inclusive. We do this both through periodic deep dive conversations and quantitative course evaluation data.
• Integrating discussions of culture, identity and bias throughout our programs.
• A robust course scholarship program that focuses on individuals working in social justice, public service and activism, so that our trainings can help amplify work being done in those areas.

However, we also know there is a lot more that we can do – and we are committed to continuing to grow in this area. This year, some of our new initiatives include:

• adding a new criteria that expands scholarships beyond those working in public service/activism/social justice, to also include individuals who center underserved populations in their coaching services or personal development work and support.
• adding in new curricular materials to our programs that bring in more voices of women of color.
• continued work with our diversity and inclusion consultant, also a course alum, to enhance our curriculum and community practices.

Yes. In the workshop, we will use writing prompts and exercises that will bring more creativity and energy to your writing – and this can enhance any kind of writing, whether you are writing resumés or marketing materials or research papers. During our dedicated writing time, you can continue working with prompts from Tara or turn your attention to whatever writing project you’d like to work on.

Absolutely. In my view, a “writer” is simply anyone who, in that particular moment, is writing. That’s it. There’s no such thing as “a writer” apart from that. We are here as human beings with thoughts, sentiments and ideas to articulate and express, and so we write. Join us.

The program takes place in a group format, within which each individual member will have the opportunity to share challenges, reflect on their learnings, and ask questions with individual feedback from Tara. If you’re not able to attend a Q&A session, you can always submit questions ahead of time and then listen to the recording.

We have an incredible community of like-minded women from around the world. There are optional ways to engage with the community during the retreat: our online discussion group (hosted outside of mainstream social media), and our small group breakouts where you can share reflections and learnings with other participants. Through our discussion platform, it’s easy to find other members who do similar work, or who are in your local area.

First of all, if you are asking yourself this question and wondering if you’ll be in a different stage of life than the group, we want you to know you aren’t alone! This question comes up a lot for women considering our programs. The usual age range of the course participants is 30s through 70s, with a strong cohort of women in each decade.

It’s a great question. Here are a few things to keep in mind: The course materials are always simple to access. Because Tara’s programs are highly experiential and interactive, we don’t experience the attrition or weak learning outcomes that many distance-learning programs do. The pluses of a distance-learning approach are that you’ll connect with like-minded women from all over the world and that you can learn/participate in a way that works easily with your schedule.

You aren’t alone. Many women hear a voice in their head saying, “You won’t fit in with this crowd of women,” or “Who do you think you are?” or “You have nothing to say, to write about,” or “This is for writers and that’s not you.”

I know in myself, there’s a part that doesn’t like creative stretches and leaps. It wants to stay in the familiar, and it often speaks up in situations like this.

If you feel a longing to join us — including a longing with a sense of nervousness or thrill in it — I hope you will!

Well, if you were my coaching client I’d ask you to:

• Check in with your body: How does the idea of registering feel in your body — good and exciting? Good but scary/exhilarating? Those are good signs.
• Notice what part of you is hesitant: Your inner wisdom? Listen up. Inner critic? Voice of fear? Not good voices to listen to.
• Explore: Is there a particular fear or worry you have? If so, write it down and examine it in the light.
• Ask yourself: If you knew you couldn’t fail at this, and that you’d fit in beautifully with the group — what would you do?
• Reflect: What are your intentions for the coming year? Does this feel well aligned, or not?