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Community Studios
Soul Tracks: Questing for Resilience (Expressive Arts Group)
Wednesday, December 11
8-9:30 PM ET
virtual event; open to all mentees
“No fight, no flight, just write!” – Sherry Reiter, PhD
Fight, flight, and freeze are the known coping responses to stress. But there is an alternative response to stress— expressive writing. Each workshop focuses on exercises that harvest your creativity, builds resilience, and develops a world view to support surviving and thriving.
What does it mean to be “broken”? And how do we reconfigure the pieces of your puzzling life to feel more complete? In this workshop, we metaphorically explore, through literature and writing, how the cracks of the mended kintsugi cup has its own beauty.
Please commit to all 3 sessions!
To attend this event, create a Girls Write Now account and register for this event through the portal.
Meet the Studio Facilitator
Sherry Reiter
Sherry Reiter, PhD, is a registered poetry and drama therapist and clinical social worker who has been facilitating workshops since the age of eighteen. Although she began as an actress doing voiceovers, she discovered the field of “poetry therapy,” and has taught at the New School for Social Research and Hofstra University. She is director of The Creative “Righting” Center, an international online training center for poetry therapy. She is creator of Poets-Behind-Bars, a long distance program at Indiana State Prison (max security) done with her students. She is co-author of Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing.
This event is open to:
all mentees
