Lucida Strategies is a consultancy for writers, learners, and educators at every stage — grounded in creative practice, rigorous pedagogy, and a deep commitment to how each mind learns best.
"We have spent years building practices around a single conviction: your way of thinking is not the obstacle to good writing — it is the very source of it."
We have built our practices around a conviction that most pedagogy still hasn't absorbed: effective teaching doesn't just accommodate different kinds of minds — it is designed by and for them from the start.
This isn't a specialty we offer on the side. It is embedded in how we structure every session, draft every workshop, and approach every writer who arrives unsure whether the problem is the work or the way they've been taught to do it.
We are also both practicing writers and artists. That isn't incidental — it is what makes our coaching different from tutoring. We know what it means to face the blank page, to lose the thread, and to find your way back.
We are practitioner-educators — working writers, artists, and creative thinkers who bring that lived practice into every coaching relationship. Whether you're writing a dissertation, preparing a grant, teaching a class, or supporting your child's education, you deserve a mentor who knows the work from the inside.
Sustained coaching for the long arc of academic and professional writing — from dissertation chapters and grant proposals to scholarly articles and the everyday practice of building a writing life in your field.
Workshops, individual mentorship, and curriculum consulting for faculty, teachers, and school leaders who want inclusive, accessible practice that is responsive to the full range of how people think and learn.
Online courses and one-on-one coaching for students who deserve instruction built around how they actually learn — not just how most curricula assume they should. We take particular joy in helping students discover and develop their own voice, so that their writing sounds like them at their best.