The Program
A year-long writing immersion in the Source Work method.
School starts March 8, with our founding cohort capped at 25 students.
Once spots fill, we welcome students as places open. Your year starts whenever you join.
Sourcery School is for committed writers ready to root their craft in the human imagination, descend into the realm of myth and dream, and return with the stories only they can tell.
The school pairs the rhythm and rigor of a graduate program with the freedom and experimental spirit of an artist’s residency. Held within an intimate circle of dedicated writers, Sourcery School is radically devoted to the human imagination, at a moment when the creative industries are reckoning with how much of it they’ve traded for speed and scale.
Through monthly study, live practice, and quarterly residencies in Ojai, students learn to court the unconscious and let inspiration arrive before structure, from first draft to final polish.
Source Work teaches writers to go deep instead of fast, reminding them that every story requires a descent into the unknown, and that the journey of the writing process is where a story gets its vitality and wisdom. And here’s the secret: with the right tools and a clear roadmap, going deep becomes its own creative advantage. Writers return with material so alive and coherent that drafting moves quicker, rewrites shrink, and the work resonates far beyond shallower ways of working.
Who It’s For
Screenwriters, playwrights, novelists, TV writers, and anyone with a project they’re ready to write from a deeper place. Think of it like a low-residency MFA: you keep a steady practice at home all year, and we come together in person four times. It’s a real commitment, with real return: a creative practice rooted in the human imagination, and a reliable way back to the source of your work whenever you lose the thread.
What’s Included in the Year
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Monthly · Live on Zoom
The Curriculum
Monthly offerings include lectures on myth and craft, guided Source Sessions, a themed writing group, and an accountability call.
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Four times a year in Ojai
Quarterly Residencies
Four days together, training in the Source Work method until it becomes a practice you can return to on your own, and bring into whatever rooms you work in next.
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Quarterly · One‑on‑one
Story Development
Tuition includes a quarterly session for story coaching and project incubation, guiding you from inspiration to finished work over your year.
01Monthly Curriculum
Each month includes these live offerings on Zoom:
- Mythology Mystery School Alternating months
- Louise takes apart a masterwork of film, fiction, or theater to reveal the symbol, metaphor, and myth beneath what makes it great.
- Source Session Alternating months
- A guided descent to the Deep Source, where you engage your story at the level of image and symbol, and let this deep source offer up new material.
- Themed Writing Group
- Each month studies a craft theme (transitions, setups and payoffs, dialogue) through a deeper, mythic lens. How do we master the mechanics of story while keeping it connected to its source? Students submit pages, and we workshop them together.
- Accountability Call
- A monthly check-in. Read work aloud, receive feedback, keep moving.
Throughout the year, visiting practitioners, creative leaders, and industry experts bring new perspectives and techniques to deepen your understanding of Source Work in practice.
02Quarterly Residencies
Sourcery School is anchored by four quarterly residencies: immersive trainings in the Source Work method.
These four-day gatherings in Ojai are the cornerstone of the year‑long program, offering a training in the embodied, somatic elements of the Source Work technique. Students deepen their understanding of the practice, learn to enter the imaginal independently and facilitate Deep Source sessions for themselves, and develop the skills to hold space for others and guide them through the process.
This is how the practice becomes a movement. Students leave equipped to carry Source Work into writers’ rooms, film productions, graduate classrooms, and beyond, changing how stories are developed and how the next generation of storytellers is taught.
Hosted at Ojai Retreat & Inn. All four are included in tuition, and the first is February 25 to 28, 2027.
Upcoming Residency
03Story Development
Tuition includes one private session each quarter for story coaching and project incubation. More frequent sessions or deeper support are available at an additional cost.
The Details
- School begins
- Monday, March 8, 2027
- Length
- One year
- Monthly sessions
- Mondays, 6 to 8 pm PT, on Zoom
- Residencies
- Four in Ojai, included in tuition. Lodging is booked separately.
- Cohort
- Limited to 25 students
- Rolling admission
- Your year, and your four residencies, begin when you join.
- Tuition
- Shared during your intro call
How to Join
We’re gathering a founding cohort of 25 students to begin March 8.
Admission is rolling, and spots are limited. Once the cohort is full, we’ll reach out to the waitlist first as places open up.
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- Join the waitlist and we’ll send you the application.
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- We’ll hop on a short call together to make sure it’s the right fit for everyone.
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- You’re in. Your place in the founding cohort is confirmed.
The best way in is the Source Work Residency, February 25 to 28 in Ojai. Residents are guaranteed a place in the founding cohort, and it counts as the first of your four residencies.
New to Source Work?
The Source Work
Apprenticeship
A year-long, self-guided digital course.
Join the waitlistLearn the fundamentals of Source Work through our recorded course: ten lessons with worksheets, plus eight guided imagination exercises. The Apprenticeship also includes the live Themed Writing Group and Accountability Call each month, alongside Sourcery School students, so you get a feel for the full program.
This track is a grounded starting point to build your practice, begin writing from a deeper source, set your projects in motion, and gain the foundation you need to enter the full program.
- Format
- Online, at your own pace
- Length
- One year
- Enrollment
- Open
- Tuition
- Announced soon
Not ready to commit?Join a free Source Session, Wednesday, November 18.
Reserve a free seatFree introductory workshop · Live on Zoom
Source Session
A brief lecture on the Source Work method, followed by a guided descent into the imaginal realm, where every great story begins. Leave with the beginnings of a practice that anchors your creative work in the human imagination, at a time when so much is being made without it.
We’ll close with an open Q&A, including questions about Sourcery School and the residency. This evening is the best way to experience the method before enrolling or joining us in Ojai this February.
- Wednesday, November 18
- 5 to 6:30 pm PT