Teaching - I Lead Writing Workshops for People of All Ages and Experience Levels

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Tell Us Your Story is an interactive class that lets students discover their voices as writers and read-aloud storytellers. Programs are tailored to the group—from a single class to a series of six to eight sessions. I teach classes in-person and online.

 

Participants are guided to write and tell significant life stories through prompts including listening to music, improv theater, show-and-tell games to share meaningful objects/photos, and gentle yoga. A safe, welcoming environment is established that helps build community. Students learn to offer thoughtful, constructive, and kind feedback to one another. Final events can include a published magazine of student essays and/or a public reading.

 

Tell Us Your Story springs from my passion for sharing what I've learned as a professional writer and from my experience as a public speaking professor, a student advisor, an editor, and the facilitator of two writing groups. The program was developed through my studies including an MA in Writing/Theater, yoga teacher training, Maryland State Arts Council Micro-credentials in Creative Classrooms and Teaching Older Adults, and the Theatre Lab School's Life Stories Institute.

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The Tell Us Your Story program has been supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

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