A Wildfire Community Gathering

Come back to your word.

A one-hour community Zoom for everyone who set an intention in January — and wonders where it's gone.

• Exclusive gathering for “Calling In + Letting Go” NYE workshop participants

• Wednesday, April 8th, 2026, 12p PT / 3p ET

• One hour on Zoom

• Hosted by April Stearns & Stephanie McLeod-Estevez

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It's been three months. How is your word doing?

Back in December, you chose a word. You wrote toward it, made art around it, maybe shared it in a breakout room or wrote it boldly at the top of a page. And then January arrived. And February. And now it's spring.

Here's what we know about intentions set at the turn of a year: they get complicated once real life starts arriving. Sometimes the word is working beautifully. Sometimes it's asking more than you expected. And sometimes it slipped off the page somewhere around mid-January and you're not sure where it landed.

All of that is worth sitting with — together.

If you joined us for the Letting Go + Calling In workshop on New Year's Eve (live or via recording), this gathering is your invitation to come back to what you started. We'll check in, share honestly, and give your word the attention it deserves — now that it's had time to meet your actual life.

What to Expect

This is not a workshop. There are no slides, no new content, no prompts to complete on the call. This is an hour of genuine community conversation — the kind that's harder to find than it should be.

• Share where you are. We'll open space for you to talk about how your word has shown up — beautifully, messily, or not at all. Every answer belongs here.

• Hear from each other. The group energy from New Year's Eve was something. This is a chance to reconnect with it and with one another.

• No pressure to perform. You can share what you wrote beforehand, share what you made, or simply come and listen. There's no right way to show up.

• Walk away with renewed intention. Sometimes all a word needs is to be spoken aloud in a room full of people who understand.

Your Hosts

April Stearns

Founder and editor-in-chief of Wildfire Journal & Writing Community. Memoirist, teacher, and the person who's been sitting with her word all winter, too.

Stephanie McLeod-Estevez

Art therapist and Wildfire collaborator. Creator of the art therapy prompts and keeper of the visual side of this practice.

A free set of prompts to prepare you

When you register, you'll receive an email with three writing prompts designed by April and an art invitation from Stephanie. Choose whichever prompt fits where you are right now — and bring what you discover to the group call.

The prompts will meet you were you are:

• If your word is working beautifully…

• If your word is showing up differently than expected…

• If you forgot all about your word — or it never quite landed…