EVENTS
SURVIVORSHIP WORKSHOP
WRITING OURSELVES WHOLE
Saturday July 18th
from 12:30 pm to 4 pm
Family Justice Center
470 27th Street,
Oakland, CA. 94612
A transformative writing workshop with Jen Cross
http://www.writingourselveswhole.org
(support person Dvora Gordon)
COST: $50
There are scholarships and work-exchange arrangements available.
Many of us who are survivors of sexual trauma feel fragmented or disjointed
and have come to believe we must always live our lives this way. Transformng
our language is one way we transform our lives; we can create new art and new
beauty out of the difficult and complicated realities of our lives. During this 3.5-hour workshop,
you'll write in response to exercises chosen to elicit deep-heart writing, engaging with
such subjects as family/community, dreams, love, faith, and more.
Although the setting is a supportive one, this workshop is different from a
therapy group, as the focus of the workshop itself will be on each person's
writing. Also, even as we come together as survivors, we are never required
to write any particular version of our “abuse story.” In this space, you have
the opportunity to write as you feel called to write, no matter what the subject.
You'll leave this workshop with: a renewed sense of yourself as resiliently creative,
a rich body of new creative writing, feedback from your peers about what's already
strong in your new writing, and connection with a new writing community.
Your facilitator, Jen Cross, is a writer who has facilitated survivors’ writing workshops
since 2002. I spent several years working with survivors of domestic violence and other traumas,
individually and in groups, before I began leading writing workshops through which
trauma survivors and others could initiate deep and abiding change for themselves and their
communities. I hold an MA in Transformative Language Arts, am an experienced group
facilitator, and am certified to facilitate Amherst Writers and Artists workshops.
____________________________________________________________
Date: Saturday July 18th
from 12:30 pm to 4 pm
Place: Family Justice Center
470 27th Street,
Oakland, CA. 94612
Cost: $50.00
REGISTRATION
To reserve a space at the workshop or to request a scholarship or work exchange, e-mail the
information asked for in the form below to survivorshipstaff@yahoo.com.
If you are paying by check or money order, copy, print out, and complete the form below and mail it, with your remittance, to:
If you are paying with PayPal, use the button below.
Note that you must replace “info@survivorship.org” with your own e-mail adress.
SURVIVORSHIP
Family Justice Center
470 27th Street,
Oakland, CA 94612
Name _________________________________________
Address _______________________________________
City __________________________________________
State _________________________ Zip ____________
Phone _________________________________________
E-mail _________________________________________
06/08/2009
SURVIVORSHIP WORKSHOP
WRITING OURSELVES WHOLE
Saturday July 18th
from 12:30 pm to 4 pm
Family Justice Center
470 27th Street,
Oakland, CA. 94612
A transformative writing workshop with Jen Cross
http://www.writingourselveswhole.org
(support person Dvora Gordon)
COST: $50
There are scholarships and work-exchange arrangements available.
Many of us who are survivors of sexual trauma feel fragmented or disjointed and have come to believe we must always live our lives this way. Transformng our language is one way we transform our lives; we can create new art and new beauty out of the difficult and complicated realities of our lives. During this 3.5-hour workshop, you'll write in response to exercises chosen to elicit deep-heart writing, engaging with such subjects as family/community, dreams, love, faith, and more.
Although the setting is a supportive one, this workshop is different from a therapy group, as the focus of the workshop itself will be on each person's writing. Also, even as we come together as survivors, we are never required to write any particular version of our “abuse story.” In this space, you have the opportunity to write as you feel called to write, no matter what the subject. You'll leave this workshop with: a renewed sense of yourself as resiliently creative, a rich body of new creative writing, feedback from your peers about what's already strong in your new writing, and connection with a new writing community.
Your facilitator, Jen Cross, is a writer who has facilitated survivors’ writing workshops since 2002. I spent several years working with survivors of domestic violence and other traumas, individually and in groups, before I began leading writing workshops through which trauma survivors and others could initiate deep and abiding change for themselves and their communities. I hold an MA in Transformative Language Arts, am an experienced group facilitator, and am certified to facilitate Amherst Writers and Artists workshops.
____________________________________________________________Date: Saturday July 18th
from 12:30 pm to 4 pm
Place: Family Justice Center
470 27th Street,
Oakland, CA. 94612
Cost: $50.00
REGISTRATION
To reserve a space at the workshop or to request a scholarship or work exchange, e-mail the information asked for in the form below to survivorshipstaff@yahoo.com.
If you are paying by check or money order, copy, print out, and complete the form below and mail it, with your remittance, to:
If you are paying with PayPal, use the button below.Note that you must replace “info@survivorship.org” with your own e-mail adress.
SURVIVORSHIP
Family Justice Center
470 27th Street,
Oakland, CA 94612
Name _________________________________________
Address _______________________________________
City __________________________________________
State _________________________ Zip ____________
Phone _________________________________________
E-mail _________________________________________
06/08/2009