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Write Your Self was developed in Sweden and is about developing a rich, conscious writing practice. Using a trauma-sensitive method, you’ll explore a process that is simultaneously about writing and about being human.
· Perhaps you’ve been through a specific trauma or upheaval and feel writing could help. Perhaps it is hard to speak - or even think - about it fully, and you’re looking for a safe space to explore and make sense of things on your own terms.
· Perhaps you want to develop and deepen a creative writing practice, and drawing on yourself and your life feels an important road to travel.
· Perhaps you already use writing reflectively and expressively, as a way to look at and understand yourself and your life, and would like to explore this more and with others.
No obligation to share your work. No need to be “good” at writing, spelling, punctuation, etc. No need to write about anything you don’t want to (- evidence shows writing after trauma is healing, even if you never write specifically about your experience). You always choose.
The programme helps you establish practical and flexible routines and, through playing with different exercises and genres, expand your repertoire of creative options from which to draw. While this approach is essentially about writing as a process, by writing deeply and honestly, you may also find you end up writing with more beauty and power than you thought possible.