In this generative workshop, poets and writers Jennifer Espinoza and Nynke Passi help facilitate a transformation from trauma to healing. They will share from their own work and offer suggestions and ideas how you use writing as a healing modality and transform your story and narrative creatively in a manner that transforms. What helps you write toward self-care and a reframing of your own narrative? How do you deal with it when you are stuck in fight/flight/freeze/fawn when you try to tell your story? What is an empowered vision for yourself as a writer?

Jennifer Espinoza and Nynke Passi will take you on a journey from writing the wound. They will share from their own work and offer suggestions and ideas about how you can explore difficult subject matter with various creative approaches to prevent getting locked in fight/flight/freeze/fawn mode or re-traumatizing yourself as you write. What are techniques to write about the inchoate when there are no words? What can you do when you feel your story is too impossible to write? How do you recognize when you are locking into trauma mode and how can you get out of it? How can you take care of yourself in the process of writing?

Our Soul Bone writing prompt circles will start in April ‘23 and will be hosted on Facebook. The prompts are carefully curated from our MFA’s creative process courses. Soul Bone prompts inspire creative process, draw on consciousness and wellness, and explore the intersections of writing and healing. We like whimsical and deep. Please join us!