Mapping and Making Space: We’ll connect with what has brought us to this writing course and introduce ourselves to each other. Responding to different writing invitations, we’ll explore what it means to find space in ourselves and create a map of our relationship with writing. (This session was previously called A Room Of One's Own)

Begin Writing: In this session, we’ll experiment with stream of consciousness or free writing as a way to write and not edit or censor. We’ll explore different approaches to facilitate this kind of writing.

Sustenance: We will consider how we sustain ourselves by exploring the language of our self-care and the changing nature of our needs. We’ll practice taking care of ourselves before, during and after writing, individually and collectively.

The Writing Body: In this session, we’ll connect with our bodies as a place where our stories live. We’ll explore the life our hands have lived and where in the body our writing voice comes from. We’ll think about rhythm and movement and try to sense the trapped energies our bodies may hold.

Different Ways of Writing: We will experiment with aspects of craft such as changing the perspective we write from and writing fiction about ourselves which can support us in telling our stories.

Finding our stories: In this session, we’ll catch the pieces or fragments of our stories, not requiring them to be whole or fully known. We will develop and give form to one of these pieces. We’ll explore other ways of gathering material for writing, such as photographs and objects.

Creating Wholeness: We will consider what makes writing healing and apply one of these ideas as we write. We’ll experiment with changing tense and writing as a foundation for action, and we’ll write about our desire.

Expressing the Wordless: In our final session, we’ll explore ways to write when we don’t have the words or can’t speak them. We’ll spend time gathering, sharing and reflecting on the course.