Get Unstuck! Use Pre-Writing to Move Through Communication Blocks
A 5-Part Primer for Mindfully Reclaiming Your Voice
The Story Behind This Course
This course emerges from lived practice, Sankofa at the center, and breath before words. For Black writers in recovery and across the African Diaspora, writing carries recovery, repair, and risk. A five to ten minute pre-writing ritual creates a pause that honors body and spirit, restores authorship as a birthright, and invites clarity before the first sentence.
What you experience
- Breath and Choice, a short settling that grounds the body and names your intention.
- Confession to Affirmation, honest truths on the page, followed by steady claims that clear space for voice.
- Lineage Return, remembrance of the unsilenced child, the ancestor who sang law through being, and the right to speak without credentialing.
- Visualization, words arriving like guests through a door you built, with ancestral presence in the room, nodding.
- Original Mindful Soul writings and meditations by Wil Oliver (Transcending)
The 5-Part Primer
- Orientation with comprehensive foundational readings.
- Prepare the body, breath, and environment.
- Speak the honest confessions, then anchor affirmations.
- Remember lineage, claim authorship, and set intention.
- Write three lines to cross the completion threshold, and continue.
Who this centers
Black speakers and writers in recovery from domination and silencing, and people of the African Diaspora seeking grounded voice, dignity, and daily momentum. Take a mindful journey through the African Diaspora.
Why this matters
Urgency softens into clarity. Presence returns. Authorship lives in practice each day, and the page becomes a place of truth with room for courage and care.
Breath. Presence. Self.
Before any writing session, there is breath. Before breath, there's choice. Pre-writing meditation is a sacred return. For black speakers and writers across the Diaspora, expression is rarely just saying something. It is recovery. It is repair. It is risk. To begin without tending to the body and spirit is to demand output from soil we have not watered. A five to ten minute meditation creates the necessary pause to step out of urgency, invite clarity, and remember that authorship is a right.
We summon honesty, affirmation, remembering, and belonging. Instead of aesthetic self-soothing, we prepare for truth-telling to establish a clear and rooted framing before you begin writing without burdens from dominant culture.
We were always worthy of voice. You come from people who spoke truth before books, who sang law into being, and who listened to the land and shaped memory into rhythm. To reclaim voice is to truly return to the unsilenced child, to the grown ancestor who was told to hush, and to the tongue that dares to remember in public.
In the digital world, they watch your words to sell them back to you. You are not lacking, not one thing. You are not in need of validation in this moment. You were never lost, only silenced.
So this offering says, speak - without approval, without permission, and without polish. Your voice is not a product. Your voice is a practice of freedom. It stands beside you, not ahead of you to be caught up with. It does not pretend. In this course, Sankofa spirit along with your own creativity will come to remind you who you already are.
And in our pre-writing practices, we close with visualization. See the words entering like guests through a door you built. Feel the presence of ancestors in the room, not judging, not correcting, but nodding. You are never speaking or writing alone. You are inheriting, translating, and transmitting.
This is the ritual that turns the writing session into a return to self.
Every time you begin again, begin with breath. Begin with presence. Begin with yourself.
What You Receive
What you receive
- 90 days of complementary Full Access to Wil's MORE of What U Like Substack library. $42 value (Allow up to 48 hours for activation)
- 20 lessons grounded in global Africultural perspectives
- 10 full-length audio meditations
- 7 comprehensive original articles
- 7 PDFs, prompt cards and worksheets
- 12 mindful inquiry questions
- Living practices with clear drills
- Accessible content in multiple formats
- Invitation to MSP community circle
Equitable Pricing
Supporter Price – $209 USD
Includes a dana offering for this highly focused, transformative course. Your contribution helps sustain this work and expand access for others.
Standard Price – $159 USD
Full course access at the standard rate. Ideal for those ready to invest in their own voice and writing practice.
Supported Price – $109 USD
Available for participants of low-income and coping with mental health and substance use recovery. Designed to honor access without compromising value.
*All tiers include 90 days of Complementary Full Access to Wil's MORE of What U Like Substack library. $42 value
Supported Price
$209
Full course access at the supporter rate, including a contribution above the standard price. Your contribution helps sustain this work and expand access for others.
Standard Price
$159
Full course access at the standard rate. Ideal for those in the position to invest in their mindful reparenting practice.
