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
Events
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- Community Studios
Creating Through Uncertainty (Peer-Pair Support)
In this studio we’ll be using sounds to tune into ourselves and lean into different emotions which we may be experiencing or have experienced in the past. Participants will be able to try out creative sound and audio techniques like audio journaling, song writing, and beat making.
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- Community Studios
Visual Verse: Dare to Draw a Poem
This studio is for poets and artists alike, at any level, who want to explore and have fun with the connection between art and poetry. If words and art set your heart aflutter, you have the tools to create something you didn’t think you could.
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- Career Chats
Commit to the Bit: A Comedy Career Chat
In this Career Chat, you’ll have a chance to ask all of your burning questions with a panel that covers comedy from multiple perspectives. Speak with Emily Flake (cartoonist for The New Yorker), Caroline Easom (comedian and YouTuber), and more!
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- Community Studios
Lights, Camera…Pen? Write That Script!
Participants will learn how time works in a screenplay! Together, we’ll cover dialogue, montages, and transitions in this final session of our scriptwriting series.
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Wild Wellness: Finding Connection & Clarity through Nature Observation
Integration & Expansion of Nature Journaling: This studio will focus on integrating natural journaling into one’s own life, encouraging audiences to intentionally transfer energy, focus, and dedication in order to improve their health and mentality.