Writing from The Heart: July 2014

Writing from The Heart

"Writing from The Heart" is a workshop on creative writing, creative drawing, and creative drama. There are three available versions of this workshop: one for beginners on the secondary, tertiary, and graduate levels, and another for practitioners. A third version of this workshop is designed as an outreach program to disadvantaged and underserved audiences such as the disabled, the poor and the marginalized, victims of human trafficking, battered women and abused children, drug rehabilitation center residents, child combatants, children in conflict with the law, prisoners, and gang leaders. This third version incorporates creativity and problem awareness, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, and peacemaking.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Any organization may avail of this workshop.

The program partner is required to:

--Provide a maximum of 20 participants seated in a circle inside a clean, quiet room
--Provide each participant with writing instruments, bond paper, and a box of 24 crayons

The room should have:

--A whiteboard or a blackboard
--Masking tape or scotch tape

Participants should be informed that, although this is for the most part a creative writing workshop, they will be tasked to produce minimal, actual writing, such as one phrase, one sentence, or one paragraph, per exercise. This will enable them to undergo as many exercises as possible, and to apply what they have learned outside the workshop rather than do lengthy writing, which consumes time, within the workshop.