Write to Heal through your personal plot
The Full-Length Manuscript Workshop
12 Sundays September 28th - December 21st (we skip Nov. 30th)
1-3pm EDT
Join me for a journey taken by many including myself. I take this journey of personal plot over and over first for the sake of healing and growing and second to gift to others the byproduct of story.
In this 12 week writing intensive, participants will be guided through the process of writing the first draft of a full-length memoir, novel or collection of poems using Dr. Zelda Lockhart’s book The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript Turning Life’s Wounds Into the Gift of Literary Fiction, Memoir or Poetry. The writing journey becomes the stepping stones of personal transformation that lead to the first draft of a full-length manuscript. This workshop is a commitment of time, trust, and transformation.
All workshops will be taught from a #Blackfeminist perspective that prioritizes community building, mutual respect, and Black women's ways of knowing.
What's Expressive Writing? – Expressive Writing is a way to investigate your feelings, emotions, thoughts and your relationships with others through all genres of writing and storytelling. I believe this includes sharing and listening to or consuming stories in healing reciprocity.
$800 (Payment Plan Available thru Paypal)
The Power of Writing as Therapy
One-on-one Therapeutic Writing Sessions are designed to help you to traverse difficult obstacles that may be preventing you from moving forward and living your best life. These sessions are also designed
to help you heal from and manage trauma that is generational. To get down to the healing, I utilize "personal plot", a method outlined in my book The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life's Wounds Into the Gift of Literary Fiction, Memoir, or Poetry. Yes, you create while healing and transforming.
Sessions are scheduled in blocks of 5 over a 5 week period for maximum outcomes. Fee $400 for each 5 session block.
Click Here for a Registration Form and to Schedule a Free 30 Minute Assessment Session
About Dr. Zelda Lockhart
About Dr. Zelda Lockhart
I am a current Fulbright Specialist and an Expressive Arts Consultant, Educator and Healer. I utilize memoir and poetry writing along with art and nature to help folks heal, regain a sense of self-agency, and seek and maintain healthy relationships. My work is particularly helpful for people living with the effects of long-term trauma, which includes adults living with childhood trauma and people living with the impact of multigenerational trauma.
On a more personal note: I was a little girl who wanted nothing more than to be outside playing in the dirt and filling my pockets with the magical things I discovered. Being told to be quiet and keep the family secrets was like someone telling water to stay behind a wall. Through stories I navigate and discover new paths for myself, and by reading and listening to your stories I am inspired to keep planting my truths and discovering what sorts of fruit they bear. As a queer, Black woman, mother, grandmother, author, I am passionate about fostering freedom of expression for other folks in whatever way that expression springs forth in my workshops, through writing, song, dance, images...
My research and facilitation focusses on utilizing the food, medicine, and kinship of story and nature as ways for people to self-define and authenticate their relationships. I do this work with individuals one-on-one, in workshops, in academic settings, and as a tool for community and organizational development.
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ZELDA LOCKHART holds a PhD in Expressive Art Therapies, an MA in Literature, and a certificate in writing, directing and editing from the New York Film Academy. Her latest books include HarperCollins 2023 release Trinity (a novel) by Zelda Lockhart, HarperCollins 2021 release Mama Bear: One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life and Her Own (by Shirley Smith with Zelda Lockhart), Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief( by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart), and The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript which takes readers on the emotional, psychological and spiritual journey of utilizing personal stories to transform their lives while completing a work of fiction, memoir or poetry. Lockhart is author of novels Fifth Born, a Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award finalist, Cold Running Creek a Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Fiction Awardee, and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle, 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her fiction, poetry, and essays appear in several anthologies as well as in periodicals like Chautauqua, Obsidian II, and USAToday.com.
Lockhart is Director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women to Self-Define, Heal, and Liberate Through Our Stories & Nature.
She continues her work as a writer and speaker, facilitating workshops across the US and internationally on issues specific to the human struggle and on ways that connecting through story and nature is good for what ails us.
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