Becca Syme – Maximizing Your Strengths for Writers

The Gallup Clifton Strength methods isn´t personality fluff.

It´s not „pick a label and run with it.“ It´s a research-backed system used by millions worldwide to identify the 34 talent themes that shape how you think, create and work. And guess what? Those themes massively influence your writing life – your creative process, your habits, your business decisions, your energy, your motivation, your voice.

In this retreat, we take your unique CliftonStrengths results and turn them into your creative operating manual.

No more guessing. No more trying to become someone else´s version of a „real writer.“ Just you – amplified.

Why CliftonStrengths for writers?

Because writers are not one-size-fits-all.

Some of us generate ideas faster than we can write them down.
Some of us need deep focus and solitude.
Some thrive in community, some in structure, some in chaos (no shame).
Some love marketing. Others would rather eat a cactus.

Your Strength explain why.

Understanding your top talent themes helps you:

• Write in the way your brain naturally works
• Build a business that doesn’t drain your soul
• Make decisions with clarity instead of guilt
• Work with your wiring, not against it
• Stop comparing yourself to writers who are built completely differently

This isn´t about „improving your weaknesses.“ It´s about maximizing what you already do brilliantly.

What makes this Retreat different

This is not a generic creativity workshop. This is not a bland „learn how to write better“ weekend.

This is an intimate deep-dive with Beccy Syme – bestselling author and Gallup-Certified Strength Coach who has worked with thousands of writers. She´s known for helping authors stop self-sabotaging, ditch impossible expectations, and finally understand their way of being succesfull.

What you´ll get

✦ One-on-One Strengths Coaching

Becca will walk you through your personal CliftonStrengths profile—your top talents, how they show up, and how they create your unique writing patterns, productivity rhythms, and creative brilliance.

✦ Strengths-Based Group Sessions

Learn how different Strengths interact, clash, or enhance each other—so you can understand not just yourself, but your writer friends, collaborators, and critique partners.

✦ Implementation Labs

Where theory becomes practice. Bring your writing challenges, your habits, your business questions—see how your Strengths can guide smarter, healthier, more aligned choices.

✦ Rest, Reset, Realignment

Because some Strengths run hot and fast, while others require silence and recharge. We honor both.

What you´ll walk away with

• A deep understanding of your top CliftonStrengths themes.
• A personalized writing + business strategy based on your wiring
• Clarity on how to protect your energy and maximize your output
• Tools to avoid burnout by working the right way for you
• a renewed relationship with your creativity

You´ll leave with a strength-driven roadmap that feels so „you“, you´ll wonder why you ever tried anything else.

Stop Fixing Yourself. Start Using Yourself.

Your Strengths are not obstacles—they’re clues. And once you understand them, everything gets easier: your drafting, your time management, your career choices, your voice, your joy.

This retreat is where it all clicks.

Becca Syme is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach with a Master’s Degree in Transformational Leadership and fourteen years of experience in success coaching with writers, organizations and individuals in communications, strategy, systems, and self-leadership. She teaches the popular Write Better-Faster course and does Strengths for Writers coaching. She lives in a ski town Montana, where it’s always winter and never Christmas. And she sometimes writes mystery novels.

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