SPRING 2025 NON-FICTION BOOK DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

Please note that this course is by application only. Apply here.

In lieu of teaching a seminar in the spring of 2025, Gabriel will work with a hand-selected group of writers on developing their non-fiction books. This writing group meets every other week on Tuesdays February through mid-May 2025.

Whereas our literary imprint, Jaguar, is moving in the direction of publishing other writers, and whereas we are looking to expand the number of skilled writers writing about connection and Autonomics, this spring we will curate a very focused writing workshop for writers developing non-fiction books aligned with Jaguar's mission and purview.

We are looking for books of high literary merit, written with engaging voice, that elucidate a deepening understanding of the art and science of connection. The books we publish often blend lyricism and science.

In this workshop you will work with a small group of focused fellow developing writers, all of whom are working on a first non-fiction book.

Your homework will be to move your manuscript forward. We will meet every two weeks so that there is time and space for people to work between classes.

You will have a writing partner. You will share your work regularly with the instructor, and the workshop will provide an engaged forum for the study of craft, narrative structure, and deepened literary expression.

We will workshop each text, in an order set early in the workshop. Your workshop will include a representative sample of writing, as well as structural and thematic notes about your book. You will get feedback from a very accomplished and interesting group of fellow writers, in addition to the instructor.

Gabriel will be reviewing and commenting on manuscripts outside of class, helping you to deepen and move your work forward.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Gabriel is Founder of Hearth Science & Convener of the Restorative Practices Alliance. A connection phenomenologist and neural cartographer, he is the developer of the Hearth Science modality, and has led over 2,500 trainings at the intersection of neurophysiology and indigenous and ancestral lifeways internationally. He studied the craft of writing at Stanford University's Creative Writing Department, where he was mentored by National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize winning fiction writer Adam Johnson, Elizabeth Tallent, John L'Heureux, and studied with Franco Moretti, Director of the Center for the Study of the Novel. His writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Psychology Today, and other publications. He is the author of:

• •Beginning at the End of the World (a novel), 2005
• •Transformation through Feeling: Awakening the Felt Sensibility, 2010
• •Inner Life Skills for Youth, 2011
• •Restorative Practices of Wellbeing, 2021
• •Keywords: A Field Guide to the Missing Words, 2023
• •Destoryer of Empire, Collected Poems, 2023
• •Origin Stories for Children, Children's book, 2023
• •The Neurobiology of Connection, forthcoming 2024
• •So, About that Death Cult you Joined, forthcoming 2025
• •The Archeology of Shadows, forthcoming 2025 or 2026
• •Can't Get Home, Stories, forthcoming 2025 or 2026
• •Sport of Kings: Elite Perfomance, Sovereignty, and Autonomics in the Game of Hands, forthcoming 2025 or 2026

Dr. Stephen Porges has called his work, "Remarkable." Darcia Narvaez, one of the world's leading trans-disciplinary researchers in psychology, says it is "filled with brilliant trans-disciplinary insights." James Graves says that Gabriel, "Writes with the fervor of a man saving his own life."

In 2023 he started Jaguar Imprints with award-winning book designer and typographer Kevin Barrett Kane to develop and produce books about the art and science of connection. He stewards an eco-reserve in Northern California where Hearth Science is headquartered.