Workshops, Author Visits & Thoughtful Conversations
Looking for an author speaker, a creative-wellness workshop, or a thoughtful conversation for your community?
I’m Liz Bullard, a multi-genre author, licensed therapist, and creative wellness coach based in Connecticut. I partner with libraries, schools, book clubs, creative communities, workplaces, and organizations to create warm, practical events around storytelling, creativity, resilience, and the next small step forward.
Choose a signature topic, request a custom workshop, or invite me for an author visit or book conversation. Virtual and in-person options are available.
For workshops: expect practical reflection, guided prompts, and one useful next step. Events are educational and reflective, not therapy or a substitute for mental health care.
Choose the Event That Fits Your Community
Whether you need a focused talk, an interactive workshop, or a book-centered conversation, we can choose a format that fits your audience, goals, and schedule.
Custom Workshops
A workshop shaped around your audience, goals, schedule, and setting. We can adapt a signature topic or create a focused session around the conversation your community needs most.
Best for: groups looking for a tailored, interactive experience.
Signature Talks & Workshops
Choose from established topics on creativity, resilience, storytelling, author life, and sustainable creative practices. Available as a focused talk, interactive workshop, panel contribution, or retreat session.
Best for: organizers who want a ready-to-book topic with room for light tailoring.
Author Visits & Book Conversations
Invite me for a reading, Q&A, book-club visit, classroom conversation, panel, or discussion connected to my fiction, nonfiction, writing life, and the themes that shape my work.
Best for: libraries, schools, book clubs, reading communities, and literary events.
What Participants Can Expect
Expect thoughtful conversation, practical reflection, and room to ask questions and share ideas. Participants leave with one useful next step they can carry into their reading, writing, work, or creative practice.
Workshops may include guided prompts, simple take-home practices, and time for individual or group reflection.
Signature Talks & Workshops
From Stuck to Started: Small Practices for a Sustainable Creative Life
A practical, encouraging session for writers and creatives who feel stalled, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. Participants explore small ways to reconnect with their work, build momentum, and take one realistic next step.
Best for: writers’ groups, libraries, creative communities, and wellness programs
Making Space for the Work: Creative Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Imposter Syndrome
A warm, honest conversation about the thoughts that can make creativity feel risky. Through reflection and simple practices, participants learn how to recognize common patterns of self-doubt and make room to keep creating anyway.
Best for: writers, artists, students, creative entrepreneurs, and workplace wellness events
What’s in Your Cup? Preventing Creative Burnout Before You Run on Empty
Creative work asks a great deal of us. This session helps participants notice what is draining their energy, identify what restores them, and build a more sustainable relationship with their goals and creative practice.
Best for: educators, writers, caregivers, creative professionals, and community groups
Beyond the Book: Building an Author Life with More Than One Income Stream
A candid, practical session for authors and creative entrepreneurs interested in expanding how they share their work. Topics may include workshops, speaking, podcasting, partnerships, community-building, and identifying opportunities that fit your values and capacity.
Best for: writing organizations, author groups, publishing events, and creative-business communities
Make the Free Gig Count: Turning Author Events into Paid Opportunities
Not every author event comes with a speaking fee—but a free opportunity can still create meaningful value. This practical session helps authors think beyond the invitation and identify ways to turn visibility into next steps.
Best for: author organizations, writing conferences, creative-business programs, and emerging authors
Not seeing the right fit? A signature topic is a starting point. I’m happy to discuss a custom workshop or conversation for your group.
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Recent Events & Conversations
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Cultivating the Creative Mindset
Workshop for school librarians and staff offering tools and strategies to align library work with the school’s mission and amplify lifelong-learner qualities. Practical techniques for library-centered routines, prompts, and displays help librarians reinforce creativity, curiosity, and student ownership every day. Participants received the Fuel Your Creative Wellness workbook to continue the work back in their libraries.
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Belonging Through the Written Word — 2nd Annual BAM Conference
Practical K–5 workshop for faculty and staff using picture books, poems, and short texts to build belonging, empathy, and positive classroom culture. Participants practiced simple activities, received the Fuel Your Creative Wellness workbook, and left with ready-to-use strategies for social‑emotional learning.
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The Creative Wellness Toolkit
For participants seeking self‑reflective, hands‑on workshops, prepare to engage in a series of prompts and activities designed to build self‑awareness and strategies to overcome creative anxiety, burnout, limiting beliefs, and imposter syndrome.
About My Creative-Wellness Perspective
I’m Liz Bullard, a multi-genre author, licensed therapist, and creative wellness coach based in Connecticut.
My path into writing began with a simple question about self-care during the pandemic. Daily writing became stories, and those stories grew into a larger body of work centered on resilience, creativity, and the inner lives we bring to the page and to everyday life.
Through my books, coaching, podcast, and community conversations, I help people make space for creativity in real life. My approach is warm, practical, and grounded in the belief that small steps can help us move from stuck to started.
I bring that same perspective to each event: room for honest reflection, useful ideas, and meaningful conversation.
Let’s Plan Your Event
Whether you are choosing a signature topic, planning a book conversation, or imagining a workshop created for your community, I’d love to hear what you have in mind.
Virtual and in-person events may include readings, Q&As, panels, book-club visits, talks, and interactive workshops.
Prefer email? Write to liz@lizbullardwrites.com with your event date, location, audience, preferred format, and what you hope the event will support.
FAQs
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Yes. Virtual and in-person options are available.
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Yes. Signature topics can be adapted to your group, goals, event length, and format.
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I partner with libraries, schools, book clubs, writing groups, creative communities, conferences, workplaces, podcasts, and community organizations.
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Please share your preferred date, location or virtual format, audience, estimated group size, event type, length, topic or goal, and any available travel support.
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Reach out as early as possible, especially for seasonal programs and school-year events.
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Travel availability depends on the event location and whether a travel stipend is available. Please email liz@lizbullardwrites.com with your location, date, audience, format, and any available travel support.
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Yes. Author visits can include readings, Q&As, book conversations, panels, classroom visits, and other book-centered formats.