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.

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Begin your application to join the Spring 2026 Founding Cohort.
Training begins March 22.

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

5-Week Online Training

Sundays · March 22 – April 19, 2026
Live sessions meet at a fixed global training time:

17:00 – 19:30 UTC

Equivalent local start times include:

• 10:00 AM Los Angeles / Todos Santos
• 11:00 AM Mexico City / Chicago
• 1:00 PM New York
• 6:00 PM Paris

(Paris and Central Europe shift to 7:00 PM beginning March 29 due to daylight saving changes.)

Calendar invitations automatically adjust to your local time zone.

See full schedule details on the application page.

1 Training, 2 Tracks

All participants move through the same live training and cohort container and can choose how they intend to work with the Method: privately in their own work, or publicly with others.

Practice Track

For practitioners deepening their own writing and perception

This track is designed for writers, artists, and creative practitioners who want to build a repeatable, perception-based writing process grounded in inner voice work.

Participants learn the actual Abre Tu Boca Method techniques used to activate voice, generate material, interpret emerging content, and develop writing with clarity and precision. The training is structured and designed to remain usable long after the program ends.

- Full Level One Method Training (all live sessions)
- Direct teaching of Abre Tu Boca Method techniques
- Method-based critique of participant writing
- Lens-based perception tools for generating, developing, and editing writing
- Small cohort learning and peer witnessing
- One 45-minute 1:1 session with Amanda Aileen Fisher
- Two optional Abre Tu Boca writing circles for experiential integration
- Complimentary 3-month subscription to Abre Tu Boca Press
Does not include:
- Certification
- Authorization to lead Abre Tu Boca circles
- Public use of the Abre Tu Boca name or Method
$900 USD
Tuition is divided into two payments. Payment plans are available upon request. Full payment details are outlined on the application page.

Facilitator Track (Certification Path)

For participants called to guide others through writing and voice work

Facilitator Track participants receive the full Method training plus facilitation instruction, supervised circle leadership, and certification preparation.

Participants learn to hold writing circles, guide collective voice processes, and steward relational creative space while continuing to deepen their own writing practice.

This track is for people called to become stewards of voice in community — not just learning the Method, but learning how to hold it.

Facilitator Track participants receive full Method immersion plus professional facilitator training and certification.
Method Training & Creative Development
• Full Level One Method Training (all live sessions)
• Direct teaching of Abre Tu Boca Method techniques
• Method-based critique of participant writing
• Lens-based perception tools for generating, developing, and editing writing
• Small cohort learning and peer witnessing
• One 45-minute 1:1 session with Amanda Aileen Fisher
• Complimentary 3-month subscription to Abre Tu Boca Press
Facilitator Preparation & Certification
• Two Facilitator Transmission Sessions (small-group leadership training)
• Supervised facilitation circles completed as part of certification (supported launch)
• Certification review and authorization to publicly use the Abre Tu Boca name and Method
Professional Visibility & Ongoing Support
• Listing in the Abre Tu Boca Facilitator Directory
• Monthly facilitator support calls with Amanda
• Ongoing facilitator ecosystem access with scripts, prompts, and Method materials
Graduates of the Facilitator Track are certified to begin and lead Abre Tu Boca circles anywhere in the world (online or in person).
$1,400 USD
Tuition is divided into two payments. Payment plans are available upon request. Full payment details are outlined on the application page.
Certified facilitators who actively offer Abre Tu Boca programming participate in a stewardship-based affiliation.

Founding Cohort Facilitator Affiliation: $20/month
Affiliation supports:
- Continued authorization to publicly offer Abre Tu Boca programming
- Access to prompts, scripts, and updated Method materials
- Facilitator directory listing
- Monthly facilitator development calls
- Collective publishing opportunities through Abre Tu Boca Press
Facilitators may pause affiliation anytime when not actively offering programming.

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Access & Scholarships

Scholarships typically range from 10–30% off tuition and are prioritized for:
- Participants from regions with lower income parity
- Those working in community, education, or access-based settings
- Longtime Abre Tu Boca participants demonstrating strong alignment
We encourage you to apply first. Scholarship consideration is part of the application review process.

Training Structure & Learning Container

The Abre Tu Boca Method Training is a live, circle-based learning experience that unfolds across layered forms of transmission, practice, and integration.

Weekly Core Sessions

Five live Zoom sessions (2.5 hours each, Sundays)

Sessions follow a progressive learning arc and are designed to be attended live whenever possible
Recordings are provided for integration and occasional absences
Participants bring writing from prompts, current projects, or existing drafts. Writing is used as live material for practicing the Method in real time.

Individual Development

One 45-minute 1:1 session with Amanda focused on your writing and creative development, scheduled during or shortly after training

Integration Pathways

Participants deepen their learning through track-specific integration experiences:

Practice Track:

Optional supported writing circles (2) for experiential integration

Facilitator Track:

Supervised facilitation circles completed as part of certification. These circles function as a supported launch into offering Abre Tu Boca programming within your own community or professional setting. Participants complete the training with real facilitation experience and an active circle already in motion.
Two additional Facilitator Transmission Sessions (~45 minutes each) scheduled collaboratively during the training period. These sessions strengthen facilitator preparation, deepen understanding of the Method, and allow space for reflection as leadership capacity develops.

Participants leave the training able to:

Develop writing that feels alive, naturally coherent, and internally sourced — without overcrafting it into rigid forms.
Learn to hear, trust, and follow your inner voice as a reliable creative guide.
Train active listening — learning to recognize what language, image, and rhythm reveal beneath the surface of the work.
Offer Method-based reflection and critique that reveals direction and deepens voice without overriding the writer’s authority.
Use the Abre Tu Boca lexicon fluently to name what’s happening in the work.
Bring the Method into your own communities so that voice and listening continue to expand. (Facilitator Track)

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

The Abre Tu Boca Method is a living, perception-based writing pedagogy that approaches writing through inner voice activation — where voice actually lives: the body.

Rather than relying on rules, craft theory, or conceptual planning, the Method creates the conditions for writing to arise naturally and then be developed with clarity without flattening what is alive.

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. Writing remains expressive and felt while being shaped 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 — one developed through attention, listening, and relationship.

Writing becomes clearer not through force, but through perception.

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

How This Pedagogy Is Experienced Inside the Training

This training is not taught through lecture or theory alone.

Participants learn the Abre Tu Boca Method by working inside it — writing, listening, witnessing, and interpreting voice in real time within a live circle container.

Each session moves between guided writing, Method demonstration, group critique, and reflective integration. Participants bring writing from prompts, active projects, or emerging creative material, and the Method is applied directly to that work.

Over five weeks, participants experience how writing develops through perception, relationship, and attention. The Method is learned not only as knowledge, but as lived creative practice.

By the end of the training, participants do not simply understand the Method — they have experienced it working inside their own writing, listening, and creative process.

The Method is learned the same way voice is found — through experience.

Train in the Method

Founder & Instructor 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 interdisciplinary artists
→ Facilitators, therapists, educators, and coaches
→ Retreat leaders and community organizers
→ Creative professionals working with communication and expression
→ 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.