Workshops

A Writer's Place invites you to discover the juicy places in your creativity and in your expressions. 

discover – (v) to perceive, recognize, behold, catch a glimpse of, unearth, or ken.  To devise, design or invent. To learn of.

In discovering our creative voice, we behold our authentic selves, and sometimes we unearth a nugget of truth that has lain secreted for years in our inner hearts.  A Writer’s Place is a container for discovery of your voice, and is a support for your journey. Being supported emotionally and intellectually in our creative process helps us burst open and become fully articulated in our expressions, whether they are written works, visual creations, musical creations or patterns of an authentic and inspired life.

Please feel free to contact me via email or call me at 610-585-1441 to learn more about workshops that are offered in the Philadelphia or Southeastern Pennsylvania area. If you'd like to offer a workshop at a group meeting or gathering, I'd be happy to talk with you further and create a format specific to your needs. Some workshops can be tailored for an individual coaching session. Personal coaching can be done via email, telephone or in person - or some combination that is most helpful and suitable to your needs.

Unlocking Your Heritage:
Discovering Yourself through Autobiographical Journaling

Writing our life stories is a revealing journey into our personal history, helping us to articulate why we are who we are. Unlocking Your Heritage is a unique twist on autobiographical journaling. Moving away from strict factual accounting, we will be paying more attention to the circumstances in our lives that appear fateful, the people who influenced us and shaped us for good or ill, pivotal events in our lives, and the simple interplay of our personalities in our daily lives. Focusing on various methods of accessing our memories and experiences, Unlocking Your Heritage offers unique gateways into the process of autobiographical writing.

Though therapeutic to the writer, opening your heritage through journaling is a priceless gift to give to other members in your family, a living memorial to deceased loved ones, and a thoughtful and intimate revelation of who you are.

Unlocking Your Heritage is open to all – no previous writing experience necessary.  Four separate formats for writing your story are currently available and are not sequential or redundant. None requires previous writing experience and can be helpful in stimulating the creative process, taking an inventory of your life, or as a jumping off point for other forms of writing.

Mapping our Journeys
Uses collage, timeline work, scrapbooking and other artistic mediums as well as writing to access and record our thoughts, feelings and histories. 4-session class.

Mind, Body and Soul Scribing
A three week course focusing on these aspects of self. Journaling will be the primary method of engaging our creative expression, although we will also draw, collage, and use guided meditations to enrich our experience.

Journey through Your Chakras
The seven major energy centers of the body and psyche create a powerful gateway into your inner development and process. No previous knowledge of the chakras is necessary. 7-session class.

On the Mat, On the Page:
Yoga and Writing

A gentle offering of two healing traditions: yoga and journaling – See what your body has to say and experience the creative release of movement and writing. For beginners and advanced in both arenas. 

Call or contact me via email for more information. 610-585-1441.

Workshop Themes:

Who are You? Uniting Body, Beliefs and Feelings
A three hour workshop using yoga and journaling as the primary catalysts for exploring the different aspects of ourselves. Drawing, partner yoga and meditation will also be part of the exploration.

Rainbow Inspiration: Seven Points of Creativity through the Chakras  
A seven module workshop with each module being three hours. Each of our body's energy centers plays an important role in our creative expression. Through yoga, bio-energetic movement, artistic play and journaling, we will tap into our personal source of creativity and wisdom.

Heaven to Earth: Creating Personal Prayers and Mantras for Manifestation
Working with the manifesting current of energy through the chakras, we will explore blocks, beliefs and goals. Using journaling, guided meditation and group sharing, we'll create a set of prayers and mantras for our chakras.

Ongoing E-Course:

Writing Your Life Experience:
Your Own Healing Story through Personal Journaling

Through our personal journeys of healing, we each contribute something unique to the world.  Writing about our lives, our struggles and triumphs, our insights and lessons, and the healing we have experienced helps us organize and solidify our own wisdom.  Writing also gives us a platform from which we can reach out and share our experiences with others. Our shared healing and hope creates community as we build bridges between individuals.

"Our stories are healing."

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In this course, you will be guided through your own experience of the mind, body and spirit connection through personal writing.  Our purpose is not to be exhaustive, but rather to spark a process of writing and examination that will hopefully become a valuable reference and tool for your continued growth. Our overall goal is to:

• Create an expressive timeline of your life
• Examine your personal healing process
• Explore the interconnection of seemingly disparate
  parts of life
• Identify your sources of healing
• Learn to use journaling as an ongoing healing tool
• Develop an on-line community to support your creative and healing process

Guided interactive workshop: $95

Self-paced workshop: $33