Writes of Passage- a creative, healing studio

Rites of passage are instruments of record marking times of inner growth so significant, they re-organize aspects of our Reality. Affirming our right to evolve and belong, these thresholds have marked stages of maturation between birth and death since time immemorial. 

In this Creative Healing Studio we will use the power of stories and community to honor and celebrate the stories and relationscapes* that shape us, as we shape our own evolution. Gleaning gold from personal geographies, we will inscribe our own Writes of Passage as we welcome newness.

Ignite the creative spark of your aliveness…together!

Meeting in generous space we will nurture conditions where voices of personal power find welcome expression, standing with and for each other’s brilliance.

We will meet weekly for 3 months, alternating between facilitated group calls and silent writing calls. Bring projects you are working on, or a clear slate for stories yet to be discovered.

In publishing for public eyes, writing for myself, learning from editors, peers, teachers and students, I have seen writing become both mirror and through-line, reflecting and organizing evolving aspects of self, Life and culture.

You may find, as I have, that being taken seriously as a writer by others quietly lures you into showing up to the page, and for yourself. You may discover stories that must be written before you can turn to your calling. You may be humbled by the power of story-telling to create healing, usher transcendence and embolden aliveness!

Harvest the best of the creative process and let group witnessing complete your pieces. Hone your own recipes for success, building trust in the rhythms that are most generative for your creative flow- writing at night, or early in the morning…in a coffeeshop amidst bustle, or alone in the quiet; short bursts or long stretches with friends- ritualize and actualize your vision.

As you generate and develop content light, skilled facilitation and group reflections will polish the genius of your unique voice and the structures that help it shine.

Listening for the thread of your energetic signature– in theme, word, rhythm, tone, mood and form, we will refine nuance. What is begging to be named, what left unspoken? Where does energy match word, impact match intent- how? Why?

We will read and be read aloud, receiving and being received, without critique or competition. Using intelligently curated prompts and our own excitement we will generate, incubate, test and iterate what is already beautiful, to make more of it. 


Paul Zonneveld
Executive Coach, Mobius Executive Leadership


  • Anyone with a desire to write, whether you’ve done so for decades, or are just beginning to heed the call. 
  • Anyone feeling stuck with writers block wanting freedom from it.
  • Storytellers, story lovers wanting clear, core expression.
  • Those wanting to clarify personal purpose.
  • Thinkers exploring big questions in the age of AI.
  • Healers, therapists, coaches, facilitators stitching theory and practice.
  • Content creators wanting to access deeper authenticity in voice.
  • Copywriters wishing to enliven their range and creativity.
  • Poets, playwrights seeking a womb space for becoming.
  • Teachers desiring a container to create embodied curricula.
  • Seekers curious to go on a journey of spiritual development and emotional maturity through story.
  • Culture-makers exploring the meaning of story in shaping cosmologies.
  • Begins OCT 20 – DEC 29 2025
  • Choose from Mondays 12-2pm EST or 7-9pm EST.
  • Bi-weekly 2hr facilitated calls (recorded)
  • Bi-weekly 90 min silent writing calls (optional, not recorded)
  • Optional weekly writing partners.
  • Option to add 1:1 sessions with Ishita to heal blocks in your creative process, at a discounted rate.
  • Intimate group of inspired peers for depth + attention.
  • Live coaching, somatic meditations, grounding exercises, self-inquiry and intentional reflection.
  • You will be held in a continuous energetic matrix designed to support your unique creative process.
  • Chance to test, iterate, and refine your authentic writing voice.
  • Intelligently curated weekly prompts to inspire and develop content.
  • Access to our private online forum.
  • Inter-disciplinary creative cross-pollination. Put your Artist cloaks on!
  • You will have the opportunity to renew the arc of this studio after 3 months, if you feel called to continue developing content and polishing your voice together.


$1,500 paid in full or 3 monthly installments of $550 each.

  1. Submit payment: $1,500 in full or $550 x 3.
  2. Receive confirmation email with calendar invite and links to group calls.
  3. Any questions, email info@cometocenter.com.
  4. Note that all payments are non-refundable and non-transferable. In the unlikely event that the course is cancelled you will be refunded in full.


About the facilitator + story-keeper

Founder of Come to Center, Ishita Sharma catalyzes embodied transformation at the personal and systemic levels.

A published essayist, poet and photo-journalist, Ishita graduated with a minor in Creative Writing, amongst other things! She has written Op-eds as a Voices columnist for the Dallas Morning News, interviews and photo-essays for Columns Magazine, and once made Anne Sexton dance while writing poems with Andrei Codrescu. Ishita helps creatives build confidence, apply Design Thinking to cutting edge problems, and find joy in honest creative expression.

Born of multiple continents, media and disciplines, her writing like all her art, explores poetic revelations in the mundane, and encounters with the self in its search for wholeness.

Intrigued by reflections of the universal in the particular, and vice-versa, her writings and this Studio, are an invitation into your own deepest realizations and liberation.

Truth, Love, Healing, Liberation, Joy, Exploration- Together