SONGTOBER
31 Days of Songwriting for Healing, Connection & Creative Renewal
This October, step into a daily practice of music that nourishes your creativity and your nervous system..
Whether you're a seasoned songwriter or just starting out, SONGTOBER is your opportunity to create, connect, and grow as an artist—and have a blast doing it!
Songtober isn’t about perfection.
It’s about creating
a safe space
where your songs
can hold your emotions, release
what you’re carrying, and remind you
of your own strength.
Through 31 days of daily prompts, live workshops, and a supportive circle of songwriters, you’ll not only build a portfolio of new music — you’ll discover how songwriting can become a healing practice for your mind, body, soul and spirit.
WHEREVER YOU ARE ON YOUR ARTISTIC JOURNEY, THIS SONGWRITING CHALLENGE WILL UNLOCK THE INSPIRATION YOU NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR DREAMS, DISCOVER YOUR TRUE VOICE AND TRANSFORM IN WAYS YOU NEVER KNEW WERE POSSIBLE.
This Year’s Focus: Songwriting as Healing
"The opposite of depression is EXPRESSION."
- Dr. Edith Eger
Here’s what you’ll experience inside Songtober 2025 . . .
🌱 Daily Prompts → Both song prompts and healing prompts - you will receive daily writing invitations designed to help you process, express, release and transcend.
🤝 Collaboration Week → Co-write and experience the power of creating together.
🎤 Creative Hot Seats → Live coaching on both your songs and your creative process.
🧘 Regulation Tools → Grounding practices woven into sessions so you leave feeling calmer, clearer, and inspired.
🌟 Healing Workshops → Special masterclasses on songwriting for grief, resilience, and emotional freedom.
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Song Sanctuary Showcase → A heartfelt closing event where we share songs as offerings of healing and connection.
A MONTH's worth of Interactive Virtual Workshops
just for you!
Why Join Songtober?
- Build a Consistent Songwriting Habit:
Commit to writing every day (even if it's just 5 minutes!) and watch your skills grow exponentially!
- Break Through Creative Blocks:
Push past procrastination and perfectionism with daily prompts and support! (The Spring Songwriting community is like no other community you've experienced before! You will feel SAFE and CELEBRATED, INSPIRED and ENCOURAGED!!!)
- Explore New Styles and Techniques:
With varied prompts and themes, you can experiment with different genres, lyrical styles, and song structures!
- Heal:
Use songwriting as a daily practice to calm your nervous system and reduce stress. Express emotions that are hard to speak out loud and find release through music. Reconnect with your inner voice and creativity, even if you’ve been feeling blocked.
- Connect with a Community of Songwriters:
Share your progress, get feedback and encouragement, and be inspired by fellow participants! Join a global circle of songwriters who celebrate process over perfection. Experience the joy of Collaboration Week and discover new creative sparks. Share your work in our Song Sanctuary Showcase — a safe space to be seen, heard, and supported. Build friendships and connections that last long after October ends.
- Create a Portfolio of Songs:
Some people write for 5-10 minutes a day, some people write a handful of songs, some people write a new song every day and end up creating multiple albums worth of material! By the end of October, you’ll have a collection of new songs that you can refine, share, or use as a foundation for future projects!
OPEN THE DOOR to your prolific creativity!
To more MINDFULNESS!
& CONNECTION!
This challenge is about process over perfection and wholehearted artistic development...
YOU get to
choose
how many songs or
how many minutes per day
throughout the month you want to commit to writing!
Attend a variety of 12 different interactive,
virtual WORKSHOPS of all different topics
(three per week throughout the month!) that will support you and
help you to. . .
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1. Deepen your creative practice!
2. Level up your songwriting skills!
3. Learn the principles behind ALL great songwriting regardless of style!
4. Turn your inspiration into beautiful songs with step-by-step guidance!
5. Befriend your critical inner voice!
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6. Use songwriting as a mode of healing!
7. Learn how to calm your nervous system so your creativity can flourish!
8. Learn how to conquer performance anxiety!
9. Learn basic vocal technique to sing your songs with your truest, most authentic voice!
10. Learn how to grow your audience!
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11. Learn how to promote your brand and your music on social media!
12. Establish a mindset for success!
13. Share your songs with others in a Songwriters Circle and learn how to make them better!
14. Learn how to collaborate with other songwriters around the world
15. Learn how creativity can increase joy, mindfulness and well being!!
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16. Experience the connection between creativity and self-development!
17. Learn embodiment and somatic techniques through creativity that bring you into more alignment & abundance!
18. Experience the benefits of creativity as therapy and music as medicine!
19. Get some practice performing in front of others at the Songwriters Circle and end-of-the month Showcase!
Here's how the challenge works...
1.
Daily Prompts
Each day, you’ll receive a fresh songwriting prompt and/or healing/embodiment prompt to kickstart your creativity!
Along with tips and tools, whether it's a lyric idea, a chord progression, or a theme, these prompts will help you stay focused, inspired, and grounded!
2.
Community Support
Join our exclusive Songtober online community (one of the best parts of the challenge!) where you can share your songs & lyrics daily & get feedback, be CELEBRATED for your process (not perfection) and connect with other songwriters! Collaboration and encouragement are at the heart of this Songtober Songwriting Challenge!
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Weekly Check-Ins & LIVE Interactive Workshops
Every week, we’ll have live check-ins where you can ask questions, share your progress, and get tips on overcoming challenges, AND there will be 12 LIVE online Workshops (3 each week!) on a variety of different topics to help you become the singer-songwriter you were born to be!
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End-of-Month Showcase
At the end of Songtober, we’ll celebrate your achievements with an online Song Sanctuary Showcase where participants can perform their favorite songs from the challenge.
(Actually, we will be celebrating your achievements and PROCESS every day in our online community, but the End-of-Month Showcase will be a special place where you can really share your favorite creations!)
STAY MOTIVATED by sharing songs or snippets with others, connecting to a larger creative community from around the world!
COLLABORATE* Maybe you only write lyrics or just create melodies or are learning to do both? Through the workshops & private Facebook group, you can meet other artists to collaborate with & level up your songwriting!There will be fun giveaways & lots of opportunities to receive feedback & encouragement, track & celebrate your progress!
Live Virtual Workshops
CHECK OUT WHAT'S AVAILABLE TO YOU THIS FALL IN THE SONGTOBER SONGWRITING CHALLENGE!
- 12
The live workshops will take place on Sundays from 6-9 pm CET (Berlin time/12 noon EST NYC time/9 am PST LA time)
throughout the month!
If you cannot attend the workshops live, recordings will be made of all the masterclasses!
The following is a list of the workshop schedule and offerings:
(And P.S....you do not have to be an experienced songwriter!
All levels, from beginner to advanced are welcome in this songwriting challenge!)
And P.P.S... in the past, there have been painters and photographers and poets who have joined this challenge! YOU DO NOT NECESSARILY NEED TO BE A SONGWRITER TO BENEFIT FROM THE CHALLENGE, THE COMMUNITY AND THE WORKSHOPS!
October 5th at 6 pm CET: CREATIVE DISCIPLINE How to deepen (or start!) your own creative practice and how creative discipline can change your life!
October 5th at 7 pm CET: THE EMBODIED ARTIST Learn how calming your nervous system & helping yourself feel safe in your body helps your creativity flow!
October 5th at 8 pm CET:SONGWRITING FOR HEALING Learn how you can use songwriting as a mode of healing in your life!
October 12th at 6 pm CET: 7 HABITS FOR HIGHLY EFFECTIVE SONGWRITERS Tips and strategies to improve your songwriting!
October 12th at 7 pm CET: GROWING YOUR AUDIENCE How to begin to promote your songs and build a community to share your music with!
October 12th at 8 pm CET:
SONGWRITERS CIRCLE Share what you are writing with others and receive feedback and encouragement in your process!
October 19th (COLLABORATION WEEK!) at 6 pm CET: CO-WRITING & COLLABORATION Important skills and strategies for collaborating with other artists!
October 19th at 7 pm CET: VOCAL TECHNIQUE Important techniques to help you sing your songs with more power & freedom, in your true, authentic voice!
October 19th at 8 pm CET: HOTSEAT CREATIVE COACHING Live coaching on your songs, your creative process or aspects of your career/branding/artistry that you want insight and strategy!
October 26th at 6 pm: MINDSET FOR SUCCESS: How to develop a mindset that will enable you to succeed as an artist!
October 26th at 7 pm: BEFRIENDING THE CRITICAL VOICE Build an unshakeable confidence!
October 26th at 8 pm: END OF THE MONTH SHOWCASE Share your favorite song you wrote during the Songtober Songwriting challenge and receive feedback and encouragement in your process!
Here's everything you get inside the SONGTOBER Songwriting Challenge:
- Daily Songwriting & Healing Prompts
- Daily Encouragement, Inspiration and Songwriting Tips
- 12 LIVE Online Interactive Workshops
- Access to the Songtober Online Community - A creative community with like-minded creatives from around the world who are ready to celebrate you and your creations DAILY!
- Weekly live check-ins
- A stronger connection to your own voice & emotions
- Tools to regulate your nervous system through daily creativity!
- An opportunity to perform in a safe space during the End- of-the-Month Showcase
- A Portfolio of new songs that reflect your inner world to take with you at the end of October!
- Deep bonds with a community of artists walking the same path
Your investment: €97
(Recordings available for all workshops.)
Join the SONGTOBER Songwriting Challenge Today!
Don’t let another month pass you by without making the most of your creativity!
Sign up now and get ready for an unforgettable month of music-making!
What People Are Saying About Songwriting Challenges at Artists Rising Co.
SEE WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT SONGWRITING CHALLENGES WITH ARTISTS RISING CO.
Testimonials
"I was on the verge of giving up music before this challenge. Burnout, self-doubt, and fear had taken over. But from the moment I joined, I felt like I belonged. JennyRebecca’s coaching is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced—gentle but powerful, encouraging but transformative. She helped me rewrite the stories I was telling myself about my creativity and gave me permission to create freely, without judgment. By the end of the challenge, I wasn’t just writing again—I was remembering WHY I write in the first place. This experience changed me, and I’ll carry it forever."
"I’ve always been the kind of songwriter who overthinks everything. I get stuck trying to make every lyric ‘perfect’ before I even finish a first draft. This challenge? It rewired my entire process. The daily prompts forced me to stop overanalyzing and just create. JR’s feedback was invaluable—she has an incredible way of meeting you where you are and giving just the right push to get you to the next level. I’m walking away with not only a stack of new songs but also a healthier, more confident approach to songwriting. I would recommend this to ANY artist who wants to break through creative blocks and find real artistic freedom."
"This challenge was exactly what I needed to push me beyond my limits. I’ve always been disciplined, but I was stuck in my head, second-guessing my ideas. JennyRebecca’s coaching gave me the exact structure and accountability I needed to break through my creative blocks. By the end of the challenge, I had more songs written in one month than I had in the last year—and I’m walking away with a whole new level of confidence in my songwriting. If you're serious about leveling up your artistry, this challenge will change everything for you."
"This challenge was nothing short of MAGIC. Every day, I woke up excited to create, knowing I was surrounded by an incredible group of songwriters all cheering each other on. JR creates a space that is safe, inspiring, and bursting with creative energy. The daily prompts made songwriting feel like pure play again—no pressure, just joy. I rediscovered my love for writing, built real friendships, and even performed at the final showcase, which I NEVER thought I’d do! If you want to fall back in love with your creativity, THIS. IS. IT."
Now you can learn how to discover your song and let the artist in you SHINE!
Join the Songtober Songwriting Challenge!
