Memoir Writing Workshop—how to listen-to-understand ourselves and how to communicate-to-be-understood by others.

How do we communicate-to-be-understood when we’ve gone through trauma and we’re carrying around a suitcase full of unresolved upsets? 

How can we take inventory of all these things we’ve been lugging around and use them to tell our story so that we are the main character, having gone through whatever we went through and telling the story our way, as it occurred to us, so that it gets transformed from a bunch of crap into a work of art. 

In this memoir writing workshop, you will receive support and a safe space to practice sharing yourself, by first listening-to-understand who you are inside of yourself and then sorting it out and reframing what comes up for you through creative writing.

Writing, at least in my experience, is a wonderful way to practice reflecting our own concerns and unresolved upsets. And it’s a way to practice getting our experiences out of our bodies where they often float around like disjointed fragments, and putting them together in whatever way feels right to us, until our words represent who we now choose to be in our lives.

This workshop will consist of 4 sessions with specific exercises in each session so that you can practice writing and also practice sharing your writing.

Each workshop will have no more than 6 participants. Each session will be 90 minutes.

The workshop is $150 total for the 4 sessions. If you need help with a scholarship, please reach out!

I recommend this workshop to anyone who has a story to tell, no matter what you’ve been through. Writing has been how I’ve healed and continue to heal from past trauma. And what I have learned is this: Your story is a treasure, and to tell it is a gift—to yourself and to whoever you choose to share it with.

And I also recommend this class for people in conflict, whether it’s individuals, teens who are being bullied, teens and parents in conflict, or couples stuck in the same old dynamic with seemingly no way out. 

I also teach private creative writing classes. Same pricing.

If you are interested in this workshop, I am planning to begin two new sessions beginning June 2024. Please send me an email letting me know what you’d like to get out of the workshop and which day and time of the week works best for you, and I’ll then come up with two sessions that will hopefully work for everyone.

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Jessica Laurel Kane is the author-illustrator of several books, most recently, The Boy with the Heavy Suitcase and Once Upon an Upset: Stories, Insights and Reflections To Help Parent Our Children While Reparenting Ourselves, She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Upstate New York with her husband and son.