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Risk: How to Share Your Story Without Sacrificing Your Safety
Mar 22, 10am-2pm
Age Group: 18+
Level: All levels except brand new beginners.
Description:
We all have stories we want to share, but some feel scarier than others. If you have had your voice silenced, your lifestyle shamed, your foundation rocked by prejudice or discrimination, or you’ve been marginalized simply for living your true self, this workshop is for you. We will read excerpts from memoirists including Carmen Maria Machado and Annie Lanzillotto.
We will discuss how to create a safe space to write what you are meant to create by working with excerpts from Louise DeSalvo’s Writing as a Way of Healing. And we will use meditative practices like Chi Gong and Tai Chi Chuan to help us ground ourselves as we write our stories. We will take time to create a compost pile–writing that serves as fertilizer for the stories we want to share, the garden of writing we want to grow. We will write silently together, we will share when and if we feel ready, and we will leave with new tools to ground us in safety and security as we mine the deep stories of our lives.
By the end of this workshop, participants will have new tools to use to ground their physical and mental bodies as they embark on writing the difficult stories they want to share.”
More info: https://events.humanitix.com/risk-how-to-share-your-story-without-sacrificing-your-safety
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