Your Grief Story: Writing Workshop

Starting in September, I'll be teaching a class for Turning Point Writing Workshops.  Details below. Call or email me if you want to know more.


Your Grief Story: Writing the Loss of a Loved One

Surviving the death of a loved one is among the most profound experiences we human beings share.  It rarely leaves us unchanged. And yet, our grief is as individual as our lives. Drawing upon the stages of grief—including denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance—this class uses writing as a tool with which to explore our loss, to learn to live without our loved one, and to continue to heal.

Classes include readings, discussion, and writing exercises. The final class will be a group reading of our grief stories. You do not have to be a writer to participate, just willing to explore your loss  and share your experience through your words.


Class goals include

• Expanding your self-awareness through writing
• Connecting deeply with your grief and your loved one who has died.
• Building community with other participants through writing and discussion.
• Learning creativity and writing techniques.
• Completing a story and sharing it with family and friends.

Class Dates
Wednesdays, September 19 and 26 and October 3, 10, and 17.
Class meets from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in South Boulder.

Contact information
303-444-2691 or  ellen.orleans[at]gmail [dot] com

Cost
$325 with a 15% discount available for readers of this blog and early registrants. 

About the instructor (that would be me)
A long-time author and instructor, Ellen Orleans has taught creative writing for Boulder County schools, libraries, and non-profits for twenty years. Her classes emphasize writing as a path to self-understanding and connection to the world around us.

The author of five books and a chapbook, Ellen recently completed Pedestal, a memoir about her mother’s death. Excerpts have appeared in The Denver Quarterly, The Incredible Shrinking Story and Palimpsest. “The Shape of Montana,” also from Pedestal, was included in a 2012 Stories on Stage/Buntport Theater production.

Ellen’s writing has been published widely, most recently in the anthologies Primal Picnics and Milk and Honey. Her digital essay, “O-8: My Visit with a Nuclear Missile,” is viewable on YouTube while her nature writing appears regularly in Boulder County’s Images.



Find out more about Turning Point Workshops here: 
writelifecoaching.com/turningpointworkshops.htms