Facilitated by Bobbi Kidder.

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In this workshop we'll invite recalling highlights of your day, your year, or even your life while capturing the essence of those events in your writing.

Supplies Needed:

A journal or paper and something to write with.

Facilitated by Dr. Karen R. Echols.

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This workshop is designed to create and foster a sense of intentions, mindfulness, and gratitude while crafting one’s own personal story.
Using a personal item or items of choice, participants will create a story or memoir around the object(s) using questions and prompts to draw pictures and/or use words/phrases to respond. Participants will also engage in a set of meditation/mindfulness exercises which will focus on breathing and thoughts to help further solidify the personal story in one’s mind, body, heart, and soul.

Materials Needed:
Personal item(s) of choice; can be a book, picture, card, article of clothing or anything which is available and meaningful to the participants.
Notebook/Journal (or other paper material to write on).
Pencils/Pens, Colorful Markers, or Crayons.

Facilitated by Aidyn Stevens.

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Together we will share our cherished stories through poetry. Using our creativity we will create blackout poems that help share the silly, deep, or complex stories that create our family lore.

Supplies Needed:
Books that can be permanently altered (for blackout poetry)
Newspaper (also for blackout poetry)
Thick black marker
Something to write with
Paper

Optional:

Bring a cherished family item or any item that has a strong memory attached to it.

Facilitated by Ashley McEneny.

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In this workshop we'll dive into how we saw ourselves and our identities as children and how we see ourselves today. How have we evolved? What parts of us are the same? How do we want to be remembered?

Supplies:
Craft Paper (White or any color)
Markers/Paints for color
Magazine scraps for collage if desired
Black Pen
Scissors
Glue Stick

Facilitated by Ben Holroyd.

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In this workshop we'll explore movement to generate themes and ideas for writing about your own life. Specifically, we'll look at habitual movements as a way of understanding how our body has moved through life, and then tell our story through describing how we move in a piece of personal writing.

Supplies:

Something to write with, paper and a personal item.

Facilitated by Dez'Mon Omega Fair.

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In this workshop, inspired by our own stories, we will use creative writing exercises and music to create embodied metaphors, generating emotion-rich poetry.

Supplies:
Paper
Pen
Pencils
Markers
Color pencils