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Great writing can transform how the world sees you and your organization. The world thinks you are more professional, competent and knowledgeable. Readers understand your point of view with ease and clarity.
At the Himalayan Writing Retreat, we help teams elevate their writing with our custom workshops. We help your team members write with unblurred clarity. We help make your writing – and your point of view – easier to read and understand.
If you think your organization will benefit from communicating better, we can help
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Case studies
The Himalayan Writing Retreat has created and delivered many custom writing workshops / interventions for organizations of various types ranging from NGOs to businesses to hobby groups. These include AIF, The Ashoka Foundation, USISPF and the Design School at UPES University. These custom solutions range from helping organizations blog better, write better articles to teaching college students how to design better communication.
The Himalayan Writing Retreat has executed and delivered custom writing workshops for the following organizations.
The America-India Fellowship funded by the Bill Clinton Foundation
THWR conducts a series of three workshops spread across the year for the AIF Fellows. We have conducted these two years in a row before the Pandemic.
- Project: Help the fellows write better blogs, and improve their public speaking
- Duration & Structure: Three custom writing workshops spread over ten months. In the last workshop we also covered public speaking as one of our founders is a TEDx and Josh speaker.
- Mode / Location: In person, Different locations
The Ashoka Foundation
The foundation runs the Ashoka Fellowship for which The Himalayan Writing Retreat has designed and run a 15 day creative writing residency. We have conducted these residencies for two years in a row.
- Project: Design a writing residency
- Duration & Structure: One day opening and closing module, with 15 writing day
- Mode / Location: Residential, Himalayas
Creative Writing for Brands – a workshop
The client, Dr. Sandeep Goyal, is advertising guru and leader. he seeks to create a recurring annual training event which would benefit the industry.
- Project: The Client wanted us to design a Custom 3 day residential workshop for junior creative people from the advertising industry.
- Duration & Structure: We roped in the reputed advertising leader Josy Paul to lead the course. The course is on Nov 30-Dec 4, 2024.
- Mode / Location: At the Retreat.
Indic Academy
A custom course on short story writing for a specific project (the Kalki Anthology) that is being commissioned by the Indic Academy.
- Project: Custom course on writing short stories, with a focus on Indian mythology and spec-fic.
- Duration & Structure: 4 days, 3 hours each day.
- Mode / Location: Online.
The School of Design at UPES, Dehradun
- Project: Help undergraduate students understand and design communication.
- Duration & Structure: Three days intensive.
- Mode / Location: On Campus (Dehradun)
USISPF
A US -India trade organization looking to influence public policy through articles and opinion pieces.
- Project: Help Experts write better articles and influence public opinion
- Duration & Structure: Four days, spread over four weeks.
- Mode / Location: In person, Sheraton / Taj (Delhi)
American writers of Indian Origin, Across the US
A cultural organization in the US was looking for a writing course for Indian Diaspora writers in North America.
- Project: Help amateur writers in the US get better at writing articles & Blogposts.
- Duration & Structure: Four days, spread over two weekends (scheduled to Pacific time). This custom workshop was conducted twice, each with 12 participants.
- Mode / Location: Online
How we work
Discovery
Any project starts with a deep dive into the training need. We establish who the learners are, where they are right now, and what is the desired change / outcome.
Design
Once we have an understanding of Point A (where we're starting) and Point B (Where we want to reach), we then chart the course of how we can take the learners from Point A to Point B. This is the program we design. Our programs tend to be very "doing" heavy. They contain bits of theory reinforced by a lot of practice and implementation. The design also includes various tools specific to writers and writing.
Delivery
The delivery depends upon the geographical spread and Covid comfort levels. Online seems to be the preferred mode for most organizations right now, but also host groups of upto 12 at the Himalayan Writing Retreat.
Impact
No training is complete without an actual impact assessment of the training intervention. We ask our clients : What has changed after our Custom training workshop? Most clients come back with a very strong, positive feedback about the program and its effectiveness.
Contact Us
If you think your organization can benefit from a custom writing workshop / intervention, please get in touch with us at info@himalayanwritingretreat(dot)com or reach out at +91 73035-16665 (Call/Signal/ WA)