Reviews

"Barbara taught us to freefall that weekend. What is freefall? It's letting go and writing from a far deeper place than our minds. It's the way I used to write eighteen years ago when I first started writing, before I took classes on crafting and structuring and editing the life out of my art."

Felicity Nisbet
"Synchronicity" Encore Magazine (USA)

“I think of your teaching, not as teaching as such, but as an induction of an energetic state within which people rise above their pre-disposed ideas about how they can write, and they do better, go further and take risks they normally wouldn't do. This is a tremendously sophisticated and understated part of your work. Thanks to all those years of personal transformational work with some of the great teachers and philosophers of our time, plus of course the PhD in Literature, you bring to the work something nobody else has, that I know of or have experienced.”  

Nicki deHoog
participant

"Freefall has grounded me in my 'voice' at last! I could have gone on floundering for years without that quiet week with Barbara, fishing into the depths of myself."

Helena Cornelius
Author of "Everyone Can Win" (Simon and Schuster)

"Without a doubt, it was your input at that first Freefall seminar that gave me faith. Since then, I've been writing one or two books a year, and have found myself at the giddy point of having gone from being a long shot to
having a shot."

Charles Atkins, M.D.
Author of Risk Factor (St.Martin's Press/McClelland & Stewart) The Portrait (St. Martin's Press/McClelland & Stewart)

“Evaluations of Barbara’s work were always in the top rank:  indeed, for many participants, their experience was life-changing.” 

Kim Roberts
former Director, University Extension, University of Western Australia

"I learned to flow with my passion, not to be afraid, and to look forward to the results, welcoming whatever they might be, whether great or terrible. Now, each impediment becomes a problem to solve, another turn in the long
road of writing. By letting myself go, I truly found a voice."

Nellie Jacobs
Author of Grading the Teacher (Penguin Books, Canada)

"One of the most fantastic experiences I have ever had."

John Strauss, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

"A special thanks to Barbara Turner-Vesselago, whose writing workshops helped me to write again after a long silence."

Joan Bodger
Preface to The Crack in the Teacup (McClelland & Stewart)

"Without Freefall, I would never have written a single word"

Tilda Shalof
author of A Nurse's Story and The Making of a Nurse