Girls Write Now Community Experiences
Expressive Arts
At Girls Write Now, our expressive art groups provide therapeutic support through creative practices. Guided by mental health professionals, these groups offer a space for participants to process challenging personal events, shift perspectives, and address stress and anxiety through artistic expression. The focus is on using creative tools to explore and reframe personal narratives, promoting emotional well-being and personal growth.
Therapeutic Writing Group
In this wellness group, a mental health professional introduces participants to therapeutic writing as a tool to process challenging personal events and feelings, shift perspectives, and counter negative thoughts, stress, and anxiety. Participants also examine and reframe their own personal narratives under the care and guidance of the professional therapist. This studio requires a 1 or 2 cycle commitment (3 – 6 session).
Therapeutic Visual Arts Group
In this wellness group, a mental health professional introduces therapeutic art-making practices as a tool to process challenging personal events and feelings, shift perspectives, and counter negative thoughts, stress, and anxiety. Participants also examine and reframe their own personal narratives under the care and guidance of the professional therapist. This studio requires a 1 or 2 cycle commitment (3 – 6 session).
Please note, Therapeutic Art Groups require a minimum commitment of
four people regularly participating in order to be active.
If you are interested in joining or facilitating a Therapeutic Art Group,
please reach out to Erica Silberman at esilberman@girlswritenow.org.
Upcoming Community Experiences
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- Community Studios
Page Turners: The Secret to Keeping Readers Hooked
Participants will learn how to reveal (and withhold) information for maximum impact, experiment with pacing and tone, and discover how to sustain suspense in any genre.
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Mentor Think Tank (Mentor Support)
A social circle for mentors to come and meet others, share ideas, ask questions or drop in to say, “Hello.” Come ask questions if you have a dilemma! Have a brilliant idea for the program, let us know! This is an hour for mentor talk!
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Blurred Lines: Grief and Love Through Poetry
In this session, we will explore how poets may blur the lines when describing grief and love. Sometimes it is hard to even tell which one they are describing. Through close readings and writing exercises, we will discover how both can become a language of memory, of showing grace, and of transformation.
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Writing for Resilience (Expressive Art)
The Life You Could Be Living: Explorations from the Edge – Through photographs and poetry, we explore the adventure of life. “Come to the Edge” and other poems inspire participants to write from a different perspective.
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Writing the Future in a Changing Climate
In this lesson, participants will learn about the solarpunk movement and how these ideas can be applied to science fiction writing. They will then practice writing their own solarpunk stories that imagine a sustainable future.