Read on for more information about the upcoming Declaring Our Erotic and Write Whole workshops with Jen & Writing Ourselves Whole!
heart power!
Declaring Our Erotic-Reclaiming Our Sexuality
Eight Tuesday evenings, beginning 8/11/09
Open to queer women survivors of sexual trauma!
Have you been thinking about exploring some new edges in your writing? Are there longings you’d like to find language for?
Now’s the time: Changing our language can change the way we understand ourselves and our desires! Once again, I’m opening this workshop explicitly to queer women survivors of sexual trauma who want to continue the process of reclaiming their sexuality.
In this erotic writing group, we write in response to exercises that engage or invoke various aspects of our erotic, sexual and sensual selves, in a safe and confidential group of peers. Get more comfortable writing about sexual desires, receive strong and focused feedback about your new writing, explore the varied and complex aspects of sexuality and identity, all while trying your hand at some explicit erotic writing!
In these 8 weeks, you’ll create an exciting body of fresh and (often) surprising new writing, and my very well find that your experience of your erotic voice/erotic power has been transformed.
Write Whole: Survivors Write
Eight Monday evenings, beginning 8/10/09.
Open to all women survivors of sexual trauma!
Transform your relationship with your writing — and with yourself. For survivors in particular, writing freely in supportive and attentive community opens us up to the possibility of being fully heard in all of our expression, creative and otherwise!
In this workshop, write in response to exercises chosen to elicit deep-heart writing, and deal with such subjects as: body image, family/community, sexuality, dreams, love, faith, and more. We create new art and new beauty out of the difficult and complicated realities of our lives.
You’ll be encouraged to trust the flow of your writing voice, and receive immediate feedback about the power of your words!
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All workshops held in an accessible, downtown San Francisco office, near Powell Street and Market – close to Bart & Muni.
Spaces are limited and pre-registration is required.
Fee for each 8 week workshop is $250.
To register, email: jennifer@writingourselveswhole.org.
About your facilitator: Jen Cross is a widely published freelance writer. She’s a queer incest survivor who used writing as a transformative and integral part of her own healing process. She’s a certified AWA Facilitator and is currently leading workshops at UCSF for folks living with cancer.
More info: www.writingourselveswhole.org.
Note: These workshops are open to individuals who identify on the woman/female spectrum and who also self-define as survivors of sexual trauma. Categorizations of gender can be highly problematic and I believe that both “women” and “survivor” are self-defined! Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you’re wondering whether you should attend or not.
