THE MEMOIR WHISPERER WORKSHOPS
Inspire and inform your organization, club, community or other group with one of the fun yet intensive workshops in our THE MEMOIR WHISPERER™ series! All of the subjects below include a detailed participant handout; offer benefits to participants with a wide range of writing experience and skill levels, from beginners to longtime writers; work with both small and large groups; and can be adapted to 2-hour, half-day, full-day and weekend intensive sessions.
Fees for THE MEMOIR WHISPERER™ workshops begin at $500; please email us using our Contact form for scheduling, pricing and policy information. We'll be delighted to work with you to offer a workshop that is perfect for your organization or group's needs!
PICTURING OUR LIVES: Whether old or recent, formal or informal, of one person or many, every photograph opens the door to priceless memories. This fun, innovative and focused workshop leads you through four brief writing exercises based on a photo you bring to class, with each new “prompt” successively deepening the texts you’ve written before it. You’ll be astonished at how much rich material flows from a single visual starting point…how much you remember about the past…and how easily you can express insights you may never before have put into words. We’ll close with a brief discussion of combining your photo-based writing into brief books, followed by time for your questions; the handout you’ll bring home gives you additional prompts as well as tips on how to preserve and digitize those precious photos. Sponsored by the Laura Riding Jackson Foundation, our Picturing Our Lives workshop in Vero Beach, FL earlier this year reached sell-out capacity! Thanks to the Foundation and all who attended for a wonderful day! We're working on some NC dates for Fall 2019 and yet other locations for 2020.
THE STORIES OUR STUFF TELLS: Whether we’ve bought, found, inherited or received them as gifts, each of our possessions sparks memories of our lives and tells a story about our tastes, interests and values. This fun interactive workshop uses dialogue, handouts and brief writing exercises to explore the ways the things that have passed through our lives illuminate the people that we are. You may be surprised at the meaningful memories and vivid life stories mere “stuff”—even stuff we no longer own—will call forth! We’ll have plenty of time for questions and send you home with lots of information and ideas. This workshop has special resonance for artists inspired by objects and anyone who has cleared out (and/or ended up with) the possessions of a loved one now gone, but all writers, memoirists, and recorders of family history will find it informative and inspiring. We're delighted to announce that this will be our Spring 2020 Laura Riding Jackson Foundation workshop on February 22, 2020. Click here for more information or to register!
EFFORTLESS MEMOIR: This workshop shares ten clear, concrete and actionable secrets to making your personal or family history project both easier and more effective. We touch on all aspects—expectations, planning, shaping, writing, completing, and sharing—of book creation with a special focus on countering the many misconceptions and blocks writers of life story face. Whether you're hoping to write a personal or family history some day or already mid-project, you'll leave (as always, with a detailed handout for review and use at home) inspired, energized, and ready to write with pleasure.
FULLY CUSTOMIZED WORKSHOPS: We're also delighted to work with you to customize a workshop to fit your needs, a specific theme, or the focus of a special event. Just contact us to start a dialogue and plan a session that's ideal for your organization or group!
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