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The Emergent Heroine: Elevate YOUR Screenplay in this Intensive One Day Workshop
Defy the Blueprint, Explore Hidden Patterns & Transform Your Screenplay into the Story You Were Meant to Write.
When: April 8th
Where: London TBC
How Much: £47.99
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For decades, the Hero’s Journey has been the dominant blueprint for story structure. And yet it doesn’t always reflect many people’s life experiences, resonate with all stories or offer the breathing space for narratives audiences are now asking for.
You’ve felt it:
* the beats are technically correct
* the inciting incident lands
* the midpoint turns
But then, your character’s arc feels inauthentic, forced, predictable; the emotional spine isn’t fully alive. It doesn’t feel AUTHENTIC, ESSENTIAL and TRUE.
In this LondonSWF one-day intensive lab, writer, film creative, and psychotherapist Kimberley Lipschus is flying in from Australia, and inviting you reframe YOUR story for audiences hungry for new perspectives and executives asking for bold and new stories.
Using The Emergent Heroine – a contemporary narrative arc that stands alongside the Hero’s Journey – we will map out the unconscious patterns, inherited myths, and structural assumptions that may be keeping you – your screenplay, characters and voice – stuck inside the wrong story model.
Part presentation, part practical workshop, this day will unlock the stories YOU know are great, but somehow feel like they are not full explored or expressed.
Let’s get into it…
You will:
- Master the key narrative beats of this alternative story architecture to help unlock your character’s full story potential.
- Understand the difference between linear conquest arcs and relational, integrative transformation to elevate your screenplay themes.
- See the core distinctions between the Hero’s Journey and the Emergent Heroine framework to help avoid story traps that are ingrained in screenwriting lore.
- Reflect on how gender, perspective, power and relational dynamics impact your story to help your screenplay feel essential, contemporary and authentic.
- Learn how your personal unconscious narrative patterns influence your writing, and how to shift them, so you can think outside the traditional ‘story’ box with greater insight and clarity.
- Work on sections of your script using practical tools, prompts and structural questions, learning the tools by DOING in the workshop.
- Meet writers ready to unlock deeper stories — at a moment when audiences are actively calling for new voices.
- Learn how to fully integrate your mind, heart, lived experiences and story teller skills in service of a screenplay that will break through.
Whether you’re developing a screenplay, directing, or deep into a film project, you will emerge aligned with your inner compass, your purpose, and most importantly, your screenplay.
Kimberley Lipschus // Screenwriter, Trainer and Psychotherapist
Kimberley champions inclusive, embodied storytelling, helping writers access the deeper truth of their stories.
Over a 30-year career that began as an actor, she has written, directed, and produced short films, documentaries, and audio docu-dramas, and co-produced the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s live political panel show Q&A. Alongside her screen work, Kimberley has maintained a fifteen-year psychotherapy practice, working with adolescents, women, and families to support personal growth and resilience.
Drawing on her academic credentials, including a double MA in Counselling and Writing, Kimberley braids personal inquiry with screenwriting in engaging and transformative workshops that bring together inner work and creative practice, using somatic, trauma-informed, and archetypal approaches to awaken the authentic stories held in our bodies, families, and systems.
She hosts The Storymakers’ Rebellion podcast from her home in Australia’s Byron Bay, unceded lands of the Arakwal people, the oldest storytellers on Earth, where she lives with her family, an oversized goofy hound, and two birds she accidentally adopted, all fodder she exploits in service of her story.
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