In their own words —
accounts from the room

"I was not sure what to expect when a friend suggested this. The phrase 'money story' sounded like a workshop title, and I have attended enough of those to be cautious. But the first session settled me — the reading was excellent, the prompt was specific enough to get started, and nobody was competing to say the cleverest thing. I have been coming to the monthly evenings since March and I do not think I will stop."

April 2025 · Six-Week Workshop

"I am not a writer. I made that clear on the first evening and Rachel did not try to convince me otherwise. The prompts were structured enough that I could follow them even when I did not know where they were going. What I wrote in session four surprised me — I had not connected the two things before, even though in retrospect the connection was obvious. The notebook has been useful for continuing at home."

March 2025 · Six-Week Workshop + Notebook

"The monthly evenings have become part of my routine in a way I find hard to explain to people who have not attended. It is two hours on a Saturday when I do something I would not otherwise make time for. The readings are consistently good. I appreciate that there is no pressure to perform or to have resolved anything by the end. I simply write, and sometimes I share a sentence or two, and then I go home."

May 2025 · Monthly Evenings

"You would think that someone who works with numbers all day would find this kind of writing easy or irrelevant, and I thought the same. But the workshop is not about numbers at all. It is about what the numbers meant, and why, and where those meanings came from. Session three — on the household I grew up in — was the one I keep returning to. Something shifted that evening that I am still in the middle of understanding."

February 2025 · Six-Week Workshop

"I used the notebook first — I ordered it partly because I was not ready to sit in a room with strangers and write about something this personal. It is well made, the prompts are thoughtful, and the video orientation set a tone I had not expected: calm, undemanding, intelligent. I joined the six-week cohort in October and found that the notebook had prepared me well. The two work together."

January 2025 · Notebook then Workshop

"The reading they chose for the March evening — I do not want to say which essay, in case it removes an element of surprise — was the best piece I have read this year. The subsequent writing prompt gave me a draft of something I have been circling for three years. That is what the evenings do, at their best. They create the conditions for something to happen. Nothing is promised, and nothing has to happen. But sometimes it does."

April 2025 · Monthly Evenings