Writing as Healing Workshop – Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30 Oct. 7, &14

Location: Pine Center for the Arts

Mondays @ Noon: September 9, 16, 23, 30 and October 7, 14

Registration: No fee to attendees (maximum enrollment at 10)

What to bring: Notebook/journal and writing tool

Overview

These workshops are for individuals who consider themselves survivors in any fashion and who want to explore the healing capacity of writing and how writing can be a way to connect or reconnect with self. Research shows writing can be cathartic and a way to process feelings. This is not to say that your writing in the workshops must focus on any hardships. Rather, you will write only what you are inspired to write.

The sessions will be modeled after Writing to Wholeness where “we come to the circle as writers. The writing circle is therapeutic, but it is not therapy; It is supportive, but it is not a support group.” Participants will not be asked to write about painful experiences; however, if they do, it will occur in this supportive space. The purpose of the workshops is to guide participants into self-affirmation, self-discovery, community, and connection.

Caveats

The intentions of the workshops are to provide self-reflection and community through the sharing of writing. With that, you decide how you want to participate. During our time together, you can share only what you want with the group. There is no requirement to speak and/or to offer up what you have written. The writing sessions will begin with prompts inspired by poetry; however, you get to decide whether to follow them or not. Also please note that I (Stacey) am not a therapeutic practitioner, and so the workshops are not professional therapy nor mental healthcare nor a support group. I am, however, a survivor of childhood abuse and know the power of incorporating writing within my own healing.

Facilitator

Stacey Foster