Writing Through Grief Workshop

Much has been said about the therapeutic power of writing in helping process grief and loss. This workshop will provide you with poetic inspiration and guide you through a series of writing exercises, helping you articulate your unique grief journey and explore past memories in a new way.Join award-winning writer Amanda Anastasi in this workshop for writers of all levels, including beginners. Whether you are missing an deceased person, a relationship, a lost place, or an old version of yourself, Amanda will help you use writing to process and express your unique grief experience.This three-hour workshop will be covering:

• Writing the experience of grief
• Saying the unsaid things
• Recording memories and stories
• Grief as an enriching & learning experience

This is a welcoming and safe space where you are given the option to respond to the writing prompts quietly and/or to share your work with the group. In this class, you are writing for yourself and no one else. You will be surprised by the lines, ideas and stories that will come...! Join us.Venue: Kathleen Syme Library & Community Centre, Meeting Room 3.

• Fresh ideas and some new writing for you to continue to work on!
• A pdf grief writing workshop guide
• Writing materials (if needed)
• Light nibbles during the break
• The availability of a cafe downstairs
• Wheelchair accessibility

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