Parenting with Cancer Writing Workshop
Date 2/25/23
Time 10am PST/12pmCT/1pmEST
This one-day writing workshop will take place remotely (via Zoom) and is designed specifically to explore feelings & stories through writing related to parenting young children while also managing your own cancer diagnosis. This workshop will be a soothing and healing reprieve from your day-to-day with writing prompts, poetry and discussion — all in the comfort of your home — specifically in a community that understands where you're coming from.
Facilitated by April Stearns of Wildfire Magazine (Santa Cruz) and author Mary Ladd (San Francisco), who both experienced breast cancer diagnoses and years of treatment while parenting their small children. The goal of the workshop is to give you space, time and inspiration to begin to write your unique cancer / parenting story. Whether you want to publish your story on a blog, in a newspaper, share it with friends and family, tuck it away for your child to read one day, or just use as a journaling exercise, this workshop is designed to help you experience the healing that comes from letting your story out. This workshop will focus on writing that heals, which is writing that accepts our story and makes sense of it, explores honest feelings, uses words to heal, embraces a positive outlook.
15 participants limit
Come with paper and pencil or laptop available.