Now Enrolling · Twentieth Season · Summer 2026

Write your version of
a good life.
Start Wednesday.

Writing a Good Life is seven weeks of mindful writing, life design, and small-group connections that generate insight and accountability. No writing experience required — just a notebook and a willingness to show up with curiosity and kindness.

July 8 – August 19, 2026Seven Wednesdays Noon or 6pm MSTTwo groups, eight seats each On Zoom, fully present75-minute live gatherings
See the Program & Enroll Talk with Sean First

Most participants talk with Sean before a cohort begins to awaken the potential for life-changing projects, processes, and perspectives.

"This has been the most educational thing I've done outside of my education, and the most therapeutic thing I've done outside of therapy." Paul Marcus, Retired Psychotherapist — Taos, NM · Cohort #3

The Practice

Presence, Purpose, and Perspective

For five years and nineteen cohorts, we've refined our process of workshopping practical wisdom together. These are the small-group philosophy classes we wished existed, so we created them. They have the power to change how you live and jumpstart a life-giving creative practice.

Mindful Writing

In the tradition of Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron: writing as meditation, the page as a place to pay attention to what you pay attention to.

Life Design

Prototypes, odyssey plans, dashboards, compasses, and beautiful questions. Drawing on Burnett & Evans: you don't think your way into a well-lived life — you sketch it, shitty-first-draft it, test it, and revise it like any good writing process.

The Group

A small group of eight curious and kind people make this all work. In group psychodynamics, the research points to "therapeutic factors" — hope, universality, cohesion, interpersonal learning. Participants call it the reason they never wanted to miss a Wednesday.

The Seven Weeks

The Seven Ps of Practical Wisdom

A sequence designed for conscious self-authorship. Each week you write one small, real artifact — a creative contract, a purpose dashboard, three odyssey plans — that's yours to keep and revise for the rest of your life.

Week 1

Presence

Week 2

Purpose

Week 3

Play

Week 4

Projects

Week 5

Process

Week 6

People

Week 7

Perspective

Full Syllabus, Pricing & Enrollment Read the Syllabus

Between the Sessions

A community built on infinite questions and emergent synchronicities

Every structure should raise the odds that you meet someone on a similar path — who you can encourage, or who might encourage you.

Open Hours

Monday and Wednesday afternoons for 1:1 creative troubleshooting; Friday afternoons for feedback on projects.

Curiosity Conversations

Alumni keep open invitations to talk — about a project, a transition, a question. Conversations without an outcome can be a great place to start.

The Synchronicity Select

A weekly note of who's writing what, who's traveling where, who's looking for whom. Not AI summaries — just the living emergence of a new shared intelligence, delivered like a letter.

The Long Game

From workshop to institute

The Wisdom Workshop is becoming something rarer than a course catalog: a practitioner institute for educational artistry. The goal is not to win at education. The goal is to keep playing — and to hand the game to more players.

1

Participate

Enter a cohort. Write, listen, gather.

2

Practice

Stay in the community. Deepen the craft between cohorts.

3

Garden

Begin the credentialing pathway in educational artistry.

4

Steward

Facilitate. Pose the open questions the community works on.

5

Extend

Carry it outward — to organizations, schools, your own people.

Members pose the open challenges — beautiful questions and infinite games of living well — and the community of practice works them together. Alumni gain a governance co-creative voice and offer their own educational artistry back to the group. Our founding members are founding a new kind of collaborative garden.

Also in the Garden

Other ways in

Waitlist Open

O-PERMA Creative Culture Labs

Ten sessions through the Wuxing five-element cycle, mapped to positive psychology. Our happiness boot camp, fifth iteration.

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Fall 2026

Art of Living Beautifully

Five weeks with the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Brahmaviharas. Philosophy as practice, not lecture.

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Fall 2026

Tao of Teaching

A facilitation masterclass for team-leaders and teachers. Thirteen commitments of conscious facilitation.

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For Organizations

PERMA Well-Being Series

Five sessions for up to 25 participants. Proven with the City of Fort Collins and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation. From $2,950.

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Voices

115+ alumni · 9 countries · 19 cohorts of this course alone

"I can not believe how much I've changed in seven weeks. I started thinking I would fix my life and career… and it turned out that I got back into a relationship with myself."
Monica Aikman, Nurse — Saskatchewan, Canada
"All this free-writing unlocked something in me. There's stuff in me that wants to come out!"
Luna Alice, Medical Student — United Kingdom
"This course gave me what I didn't know I needed: permission to boldly make choices."
Simi Llowyin, Community Organizer — Toronto, Canada
"One of the biggest challenges of quitting my job was feeling like I was doing it alone. Going through this with other people made a huge difference."
Samantha Scott, Accountant — London, UK
"It was like improvisational philosophy! The art of playfully saying yes to the wisdom of others and enhancing that wisdom with our own."
Brian Oney, Facilitator — San Francisco, CA
"It gave me the space to listen to the sound of my own voice."
Subarna Ganguly, Student & Artist — New Delhi, India

About

Sean Waters, Founder

Sean Waters — musician, educator, facilitator

Sean teaches writing at Colorado State University, where he has been faculty for 17 years. He holds master's degrees in Philosophy and English Education, and has facilitated over 1,250 hours of small-group learning across 32 cohorts with 115+ participants in 9 countries.

He founded the Wisdom Workshop in 2021 to re-imagine higher education: what if learning were personal, dynamic, responsive, and emergent? His work draws on Buddhist philosophy, group psychodynamics, positive psychology, and improvisational listening. He is also a performing musician with over 1,000 shows across the Colorado Front Range.

"Sean has a gift for warmth, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard."

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What kind of good life are you being invited to write?

Cohort #20 begins July 8th. Sixteen seats across two groups, and they go to the people who show up first.

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