Embark on a therapeutic writing journey of
transformation and spiritual growth with Dr Angelika Halstead.
Apply for the Writing Your Way Home course today.
Writing Your Way Home is a six-month guided therapeutic writing course. It nurtures psycho-spiritual transformation through six modules of learning, a unique writing process and therapeutic support.
Created by Dr Angelika Halstead for her PhD doctorate, this course is now being made available to the public.
Angelika herself will respond to your monthly writing submission with an in-depth, therapeutic letter to support your healing and growth. The original PhD participants experienced the transformative power of this course. Now it’s your turn.
“This journey has been a gift and profound for me. I have grown so much and as a result of this journey I have seen a shift and transformation in my internal world as well as my external world. Doors have opened as I opened myself up more and explored my truth with honesty and courage. I have loved the writing process as that in itself has been so therapeutic and healing.”
– HANNA ABEBE COPE
You can write your way to greater wholeness.
Do you desire healing and lasting change?
Are you committed to spiritual growth and hungry for new insights and inspiration?
Do you write or journal to explore what is going on within you?
Life takes you unexpected places.
Love brings you home.
Writing Your Way Home is a therapeutic writing course grounded in contemplative spirituality and practices. It supports you to expand your mind, heal your heart, deepen your relationships – and connect deeply with your soul.
Participants in this course have experienced the following benefits. You could hope to:
Open up to new possibilities and perspectives.
Become free from stuck energies and stagnant visions.
Discover new thresholds of freedom and identity.
Experience emotional freedom and real, lasting healing.
Gain new clarity and confidence about your vocation.
Let go of your inner critic and grow in compassion.
Awaken creative potential and expression.
Deepen your spiritual life and feel closer to the Divine.
Are you tired of writing in circles?
Expressive writing can be cathartic but it can also leave you lost in the maze of your own mind.
Do you ever find yourself rehearsing old scripts in your journal?
Do you feel stuck in an old story or an emotional rut?
Imagine what could be possible...
Imagine having a therapeutic writing model to guide you through a researched approach to reflective writing that actually transforms.
Imagine your writing process being nurtured by contemplative spiritual practices that opened you up to new insights and Divine inspirations.
Imagine having input and feedback from a wise, loving, spiritually mature therapist who guides you on your writing journey.
The Writing Your Way Home course offers all of this and more.
He tāngata kitea, he tāngata ora
A person seen is a person alive.
What is unique about this writing course?
The Writing Your Way Home course was created as part of Angelika Halstead’s influential PhD doctorate. It is research-informed, spiritually mature and psychologically safe.
The HOMING framework is uniquely transformative.
This framework is an original six-step writing and editing process that uses contemplative spirituality to move from the known to the unknown in search of new insights and inspirations. You begin by telling your story and naming your truth. You then offer this to the Divine, taking a posture of expectant openness that new insights will come. When they do (and they always do) you rewrite your first story in light of this new awareness.
You’ll have Dr Angelika Halstead as your personal guide.
Therapeutic support provides the safety and holding space needed for this journey of psycho-spiritual transformation. Angelika Halstead (PhD) is an experienced therapist and spiritual director who sensitively attunes to each participant’s HOMING process and prayerfully crafts therapeutic letters in response.
You’ll receive a personalised therapeutic letter once a month.
Each module offers learning material and writing prompts. Participants respond to the material by following the HOMING process and writing a 1000 word piece for submission each month. Angelika responds with an in-depth therapeutic letter which affirms discoveries, asks expanding questions and offers reflections to widen your understanding. These letters combine therapeutic wisdom with love and compassion and are written in partnership with Spirit.
One therapeutic letter is the equivalent of three to five therapeutic conversations.
While conversations can be ephemeral, therapeutic letters can mirror and deepen new insights as they are revisited, remembered and integrated.
Angelika’s therapeutic letters are crafted with care. She reads your piece carefully and draws on her therapeutic knowledge in writing the first draft of her response. She then takes this piece into prayer and enters a phase of seeking further insights and Divine inspirations. These are then interwoven into the final letter.
Course participants have said:
“It was always a joy to receive the therapeutic letters. They were the icing on the therapeutic cake that the writing produced. They were the final addition to or completion of my writing.”
“Each time I received my therapeutic letter it felt like receiving a gift.”
“I have been impressed by the depth and scope of the materials, the regular inspirational emails and the beautifully written therapeutic letters. It has been a joy to be a part of this course.”
Hello. I’m Angelika
As a spiritual director and therapist, I have always been interested in the intersection of psychology and spirituality.
I am fascinated by what I call "sacred moments", those mysterious peak experiences that often lead to new insights, breakthroughs and change.
My name, Angelika, means messenger of God, which is quite a high calling to live up to! However, it captures my passion for interweaving the spiritual with the psychological and human aspects of our lives. And this is what the Writing Your Way Home course is all about.
This course is based on the idea that all of life flows from and returns to the Divine. The path towards psychological and spiritual development therefore always leads us home, to that Divine Spark within where our aliveness and wisdom reside.
I would love to accompany you on your writing journey of healing, growth and transformation.
INTRODUCING
Embark on a six month therapeutic writing journey of healing, transformation and spiritual growth with the Writing Your Way Home course.
“Doing such a course affects all areas of life. You do the reading - it shapes the way you look at your experiences and each module brings along moments that relate to it in a synchronistic way. It can lead to dreams, conversations, spiritual times that are all somewhat integrated.”
– CHRISTINE TAYLOR-AGNEW
“I have really enjoyed the background reading to the modules, offering a range of authors take on the nominated subject. It has helped me grasp concepts previously unexplored.”
– PETER GRAYDON
Here’s what you are going to get:
The Writing Your Way Home course runs over six months and is delivered via email.
It is made up of six modules that invite you on a journey of self-inquiry and spiritual transformation.
Therapeutic conversations with Angelika happen via Zoom or at her home-based practice in Te Atatū Peninsula, Auckland.
Six Writing Modules
You’ll get a new writing module via email every month for six months. Each module is based on a psycho-spiritual theme and includes 10-12 pages of thought-provoking material, a contemplative exercise and 8-10 writing prompts for you to choose from for your writing practice. Each module is designed to expand your thinking on the topic and build a good foundation for your personal enquiry and processing.
The HOMING Model of Writing
The course material is processed and personalised through the transformational HOMING writing model. This six-step writing process includes a contemplative phase, which supports you to transcend your egoic mind and become receptive to divine insights and inspiration. These new insights are woven into your original reflections, creating a second story that incorporates higher levels of consciousness and new possibilities for change.
Six Therapeutic Letters
Each month Angelika prayerfully crafts a detailed and in-depth therapeutic letter in response to your 1000 word writing submission. This letter affirms your emerging discoveries, provides therapeutic insights and offers further reflection questions to expand your thinking and integrate your new awareness even further.
Two Therapeutic Conversations
At the beginning and end of the course you will have a one hour therapeutic conversation with Angelika. The initial conversation is an opportunity to connect with Angelika, clarify the writing process and to establish your hopes and goals for the course. The final conversation provides an opportunity to reflect on your experience and to consider what the next steps on your journey of transformation might include.
Introductory Price = $1500 NZD
The Six Modules
The Writing Your Way Home course has six modules that explore key themes in the journey of psycho-spiritual growth.
Module 1 enlarges our understanding of our wondrous self. Starting from where we are, we explore the theme of identity and the many dimensions that shape our unique being.
Module 4 shows us that our development is fuelled by desire. This module helps us to name our desires, longings, and passions and shows us their place in the process of transformation.
Module 2 encourages us to let go and surrender to Love. This module explores the process of life and encourages us to collaborate with a power higher than ourselves and surrender to Love.
Module 5 explores how relationships expand our capacity for love. This module emphasises the importance of relationships and shows us the nature of dialogues and encounters that expand our capacity to love.
Module 3 invites us to befriend and integrate our shadow. This module creates an understanding of the term ‘shadow’ and invites us to understand, befriend, and integrate our positive and negative shadows.
Module 6 invites experiences of awe that render life meaningful. The final module encourages us to look for beauty and create a meaningful life by cherishing moments of awe and wonder.
What you receive with the Writing Your Way Home course:
Six writing modules to support psycho-spiritual growth.
Guidance in the HOMING process of therapeutic writing.
Six therapeutic letters from Dr Angelika Halstead to expand your insights and awareness.
Email support in relation to your participation in the course.
Two therapeutic conversations with Dr Angelika Halstead at the beginning and end of the course.
Weekly Motivational Emails to encourage you in your personal transformational writing process.
PURCHASE OPTIONS
One transformative writing course.
Two payment options.
Begin your six month writing journey of healing, transformation and growth.
Pay in instalments
Make three payments of $575 over six months . (First payment up front, then at two month intervals)
$1725 NZD
Get the complete six month Writing Your Way Home course, with personalised therapeutic support from Dr. Angelika Halstead. You'll receive the modules in monthly instalments via email.
$1725
Pay upfront and save
Pay the full price of the course upfront and save $225.
$1500 NZD
Get the complete six month Writing Your Way Home course, with personalised therapeutic support from Dr. Angelika Halstead. You'll receive the modules in monthly instalments via email.
$1500
"Like a favourite book, this is a course I return to again and again. There is so much depth of insight, so much to absorb and meditate on, so many layers that invite slow reflection. I find myself returning to the material now and then, just sit with an idea and let it do its healing work in my inner life."”
– SANTHOSH GEORGE
Who is it suitable for?
Writing Your Way Home is suitable for individuals who wish to experience new insights, creative growth, and spiritual freedom through a guided therapeutic writing process. It may appeal to spiritual directors, therapists, pastors, coaches, and counsellors seeking personal and professional development.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Entrance into the Writing Your Way Home course is by application due to the limited number of participants that Angelika can personally provide therapeutic support for. Visit the APPLY NOW page for selection criteria.
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This course is not about literary criticism or producing perfectly crafted pieces of writing with flawless grammar or spelling. Instead, this course encourages you to use writing as a healing tool to dive more deeply into your experiences and personal stories.
It takes you on a transformational journey of truth telling, self-inquiry, and introspection in search for new insights and perspectives that transform your life. It develops practices for nourishing the spiritual dimension of your life, where so much of your passion and wisdom resides. -
To complete the course takes six months, which equates to four weeks for each module. In these four weeks you will engage with the course material and do as much personal writing as your time allows for.
To fulfil the minimum requirement for the course, which includes reading the course material and producing one piece of writing per module that you email me, will take about six hours per module, which equates to two hours per week or 48 hours for the entire course. As with most things of value in life, the more you put into it the more you'll get out of it. I encourage you to write as much and as often as you can and to enjoy the process! -
It is possible uncomfortable material and memories may come up as you go through the course. If this is the case, I encourage you to seek out additional people who will be able to support you on this journey. This might include a family member, friend, spiritual director, or counsellor. I am happy to provide you with referrals for counselling if that would be helpful for you.
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In creating this course I was interested in combining insights from psychology and spirituality into a framework of transformation. My aim was to find a non-reductionist understanding of spirituality that places it within the heart of an individual’s psychological being and becoming.
The spiritual context out of which my own understandings have emerged is the Christian faith tradition. Within this framework my path has taken me from evangelical Protestantism, via the Charismatic movement to the Contemplative tradition. I am drawn to the mystics who, like me, are more interested in nondual, unitive thinking and actual inner experience than belief systems and theories.
I warmly welcome people with other beliefs or from different traditions. I wrote this course as a spiritual seeker and from the depths of my humanity and hope that you will connect with the essence of course material and realise the possibilities of your own transformation. May you feel your own "truth” with its moral, intellectual, aesthetic, emotional, intuitive, embodied and playful pull.
Begin your transformative writing journey.
“I look forward to receiving your application. Let’s get started!” ~ Angelika