An immersive, live training in the Abre Tu Boca Method

A lens-based writing, perception, and critique pedagogy designed to activate the inner voice and guide it into clear expression.

For people called to deepen their relationship with voice — as writers, listeners, and guides. This training takes place entirely online, allowing participants to join from anywhere in the world.

Apply

Online · Live via Zoom
Global Cohort begins early March 2026

The Abre Tu Boca Method is taught live and globally — carried into many rooms, many cultures, many languages.

1 Training, 2 Tracks

All participants move through the same core Method training, cohort experience, and engagement with the Abre Tu Boca framework. From there, participants choose how they intend to work with the Method.

Certification is optional. Depth is not.

Practice Track

For practitioners deepening their own writing and perception

This path is for those who want to enter the Abre Tu Boca Method fully — to mature their writing, refine perception, and engage in high-level, Method-based critique.

It is well suited for writers working in prose, essays, poetry, and hybrid forms, including those developing collections, books-in-progress, or work for publication through literary journals, Substack, or independent platforms. It also supports artists working across disciplines — such as visual artists, filmmakers, and performers — who use writing as a generative or reflective practice within their work.

Participants learn to work with voice, image, and inner material with clarity and precision, strengthening coherence, discernment, and confidence in their own work.

Includes:

  • Full Level One Method Training (all live sessions)

  • Method-based critique of your writing

  • Lens-based perception development and writing maturation

  • Small cohort learning and peer support

  • One 45-minute 1:1 coaching session with ATB founder, Amanda Aileen Fisher

  • Entry into the broader ATB practitioner ecosystem

  • Complimentary 3-month paid subscription to Abre Tu Boca Press (weekly prompts + publishing cycle) to support an active writing practice during and around the training

Does not include:

  • Certification

  • Authorization to lead Abre Tu Boca circles

  • Public use of the ATB name or Method

Founding Cohort Tuition:
$900 USD

Facilitator Track (Certification Path)

For those called to lead circles and steward the Method publicly

This path is for participants who feel called to bring the Abre Tu Boca Method into shared spaces — to lead circles, open rooms, and guide others into voice.

Alongside training in perception and critique, facilitators learn how to hold the Method in groups: shaping containers that feel safe and alive, guiding collective writing practice, and listening for what forms between people as much as what is spoken by them.

Participants who complete this track are certified to initiate and lead Abre Tu Boca circles anywhere in the world and to integrate the Method into existing communities, creative practices, educational settings, and professional spaces — anywhere people gather to speak, write, and be witnessed.

Includes everything in the Practice Track, plus:

  • Supervised facilitation of 2–4 Abre Tu Boca circles

  • Written reflection and review following supervised circles

  • Certification review and approval

  • Authorization to publicly use the Abre Tu Boca name and Method

  • Authorization to lead Abre Tu Boca writing circles (online or in person)

  • Listing in the ATB Circle Directory

  • Ongoing participation in the facilitator community, including monthly live calls with Amanda

  • Additional ongoing engagement with the Abre Tu Boca Press weekly prompt + publishing cycle as part of your facilitator affiliation, supporting your own writing practice alongside the circles you lead

Founding Cohort Tuition:
$1,400 USD

Ongoing Facilitator Affiliation: $20/month (applies only to certified facilitators actively offering Abre Tu Boca circles or publicly using the Method)

  • Certified facilitators who actively offer Abre Tu Boca circles participate in a modest ongoing affiliation.

    This affiliation supports the shared infrastructure, ethical use, and continued evolution of the Abre Tu Boca Method.

    Founding Cohort Facilitator Affiliation: $20/month

    The affiliation includes:

    • Advance access to weekly Abre Tu Boca prompts, which are integral to using the Method in practice and allow facilitators to lead circles or integrate the work on their own schedule

    • Eligibility for participant publication through the Abre Tu Boca Press, allowing writing generated in facilitator-led circles to be submitted for inclusion in collective publications — where the collective voice is observed, witnessed, and archived

    • Listing in the ATB Circle Directory, making your offerings discoverable and signaling that you are authorized to work with the Method

    • Ongoing participation in the facilitator ecosystem, including monthly live calls, shared language, refinements, and field learnings as the work evolves

    • Continued authorization to publicly use the Abre Tu Boca name and Method in paid or community offerings

    The facilitator affiliation is a stewardship agreement that supports care, consistency, and integrity of the Method as a living practice.

    Facilitators may pause affiliation at any time when they are not actively offering Abre Tu Boca–based work.

Apply & View Tuition / Scholarship Details

The application page includes full tuition details, payment schedule, and information on limited need-based partial scholarships. No payment is collected on the application form; accepted participants will receive a separate enrollment link.

Both tracks are offered online via live Zoom sessions, allowing participants to join from anywhere in the world. Cohort 1 training begins in early March.

Weekly Training Structure

The Abre Tu Boca training is a live, interactive online program held over five weeks.

→ Meets once per week for 2.5 hours via Zoom, with a short movement break

→ All sessions are recorded and available as a library for ongoing review (and to catch up if a session is missed)

→ Weekly meeting time is set after acceptance, based on cohort availability

The training is held in a circle-based container, reflecting how the Method is practiced and facilitated in the world.

Participants bring in writing of their own choosing—prompted pieces, existing drafts, or work already in development. This writing becomes the shared material through which the Method is practiced in real time.

For those on the Facilitator Track, supervised facilitation of 2–4 Abre Tu Boca circles takes place in addition to the weekly training sessions. These circles are held online and co-held with Amanda, providing a live space to practice opening, holding, and closing the container before moving into independent facilitation.

Through live training sessions, participants learn how to:

  • mature writing, perception, and editorial clarity in ways rarely available outside of formal degree programs—while remaining fully non-academic, embodied, and alive.

  • Interpret writing through the lens, recognizing what the inner voice is communicating beneath the surface

  • Offer precise, method-based critique that clarifies structure, perception, and direction—without imposing content or authority

  • Develop writing through embodied perception rather than rules, formulas, or academic theory

  • Track how inner material moves from body → language → form

  • Use the Abre Tu Boca lexicon fluently to name what is happening in the work with clarity and precision

  • Facilitate critique inside a group container, guiding others to see their own work more clearly

  • Introduce Method concepts only when they are needed and embodied

  • Sharpen their own writing through listening, recognizing that interpreting others’ work deepens perception over time

  • go beyond feedback and into true critique—not as judgment, but as clarification. This is what allows practitioners and facilitators to meet writing where it is, while holding a wider perceptual field.

A New Writing Pedagogy — A Living, Perception-Based Practice

The Abre Tu Boca Method is a living, perception-based writing pedagogy that breaks with academic conditioning and approaches writing directly through inner voice activation. Rather than relying on rules, craft theory, or conceptual planning, this method creates the conditions for writing to arise naturally from the body, where voice lives.

Writers learn to relate to their work through a lens-based approach — sensing where the voice is coming from, how it moves, and what it carries. This allows writing to remain alive, expressive, and felt, while being developed intuitively from within, rather than imposed upon from the outside.

In contrast to academic models that often produce rigid, over-conceptualized work, this practice restores writing as a living perceptual act. Through the Method, writing gains clarity and precision that can be felt—alive on the page rather than flattened by overcrafting, shaped not by force but by attention.

Perception before craft.
Embodied technique.
Lens-based critique.

Train in the Method

Founder & Originator of the Abre Tu Boca Method

Writer · Interdisciplinary Artist · Social Practice Pedagogue

Amanda Aileen Fisher is the founder and originator of the Abre Tu Boca Method, a lens-based writing and facilitation pedagogy developed through years of live, participatory practice across cultural and linguistic contexts.

  • Why the Method Exists

    Amanda began Abre Tu Boca after years of witnessing how often people lack language for what they are experiencing — and how much becomes possible when the inner voice is given structure, permission, and form.

  • Where It Was Developed

    The Method emerged from a turning point in Amanda’s personal writing practice a decade ago, which she has since articulated and refined through years of community writing circles, immersive installations, one-on-one sessions, and international programs — always returning to the same question: How do we help people hear themselves — and be heard — without being overwritten?

  • Context

    Before founding Abre Tu Boca, Amanda founded and led EDIA Maps, Inc., a narrative cartography publishing company focused on collective voice, place, and cultural memory. That work established a foundation in publishing, editorial process, and ethical authorship that now informs the Abre Tu Boca Press and how collective writing is held, credited, and shared.

  • Collective & Public Practice

    She has also founded and led artist-driven cultural spaces and residencies in North Carolina, Los Angeles, and Todos Santos, Mexico — work rooted in building trust, shared process, and care within public creative environments.

  • Reach & Recognition

    Her facilitation and participatory work has taken place across Mexico, the United States, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Austria, and Germany.

    In 2025, she was invited to bring her methodology into Modern Elder Academy’s Summer Immersion Program, and a recent Pushcart Prize nomination grew from a piece of flash fiction that originated within an Abre Tu Boca gathering — reflecting the creative rigor at the heart of the work.

  • Present Moment

    She is currently writing a book on the inner voice through her lens-based writing methodology, formalizing a practice developed through years of live, participatory work.

Who This Training Is For

This training is for people who feel called to work with voice, writing, communication, and perception in a deeper way.

It is well-suited for:

→ Writers and artists seeking a non-academic path into depth
→ Facilitators, therapists, educators, and coaches working with groups
→ Retreat hosts and community organizers holding relational spaces
→ Creative professionals interested in perception, listening, and embodied communication
→ Anyone drawn to the restoration of voice as a personal and collective act

You do not need prior facilitation experience. You do not need to identify as a “writer.” Previous participation in Abre Tu Boca circles is welcomed, but not required.

This training is designed for participants joining from multiple locations and time zones, and does not require being physically present in Todos Santos.

Apply for the Founding Cohort

Cohort size: 10–15

5-week live online training · March–early April 2026
Opening week aligned with World Writers’ Day (March 3)
Session dates are determined after acceptance, based on participant time zones and availability.

Begin Application