TUESDAY evenings in JULY and AUGUST
JULY 7, 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 18 and 25, from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
There is a pre-screening process for this workshop.
Please call to
register.
Fee: $69 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants. Limited sliding scale spots
available.
We regret our bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.
ABOUT THE COURSE
ëWriting is a matter of necessity. That you write to save your life is
really true and so far itís been a very sturdy ladder out of the pit.í Alice
Walker
ëWriting can be an avenue to that interior place where. . .we can confront
traumas and put them to rest - and heal the body and mind.í James W.
Pennebaker
ìFinding the Wordsî is a six week introductory workshop on integrating
creative writing into existing coping strategies for women and trans
childhood sexual abuse survivors. This workshop will be facilitated by a
therapist in a therapeutic context but is not intended to stand-in for, or
replace individual trauma counselling. Participants will be encouraged to
examine existing strengths and develop new coping strategies through
therapeutic writing exercises. Being ìgood atî writing is not a
pre-requisite for this workshop, participants will be invited to share only
what and when they want.
Our experiences of childhood sexual abuse impact us immensely. Factors such
as racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism also shape our
sexual traumas and sometimes complicate our ability to process and heal.
This workshop will be conducted within an anti-oppressive feminist
therapeutic framework that acknowledges and works with locating individual
traumas within a broader socio-political framework.
Week One: Grounding and Safe Spaces
Week Two: Coping Mechanisms
Week Three: Impacts/Effects and Strength/Resilience
Week Four: Boundaries and Patterns
Week Five: Reading and Reacting to Other Stories
Week Six: Reflection and Letter Writing
There is some reading material for the workshop. It will be provided to the
participants in a zine format. It includes brief excerpts from Thomson
Highway, Audre Lorde, Eli Clare, Dorothy Allison, Anna Camilleri etc.
There is a pre-screening process for this workshop.
Please call to
register.
FACILITATOR BIO: ALI SAUER
Ali Sauer practices therapy with a feminist,
anti-oppressive therapeutic framework using eclectic therapeutic
interventions. She has Masters in Counselling Psychology at OISE. Ali has
done 'formal' counselling for four years, in both a crisis and ongoing
capacity (and countless other years around kitchen tables late at night).
Ali has worked with childhood trauma in group and individual settings. For
eight years Ali has been facilitating and participating in groups and
classes in both educational and community settings. Ali identifies as a
queer, white, anti-oppression oriented woman with chronic health problems.
TUESDAY evenings in JULY and AUGUST
JULY 7, 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 18 and 25, from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
There is a pre-screening process for this workshop.
Please call to
register.
Fee: $69 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants. Limited sliding scale spots
available.
We regret our bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.
