There is no effecting change in the world until you put your hand on the heart of your own story

Many of us will be digging deep for the gratitude this year. Practices around gratitude like writing a healing gratitude essay can help to focus the pain of our times into an understanding of how to bring that resilience into our personal and social future.

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In this workshop, participants will write a personal essay with a healing trajecto

Many of us will be digging deep for the gratitude this year. Practices around gratitude like writing a healing gratitude essay can help to focus the pain of our times into an understanding of how to bring that resilience into our personal and social future.

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In this workshop, participants will write a personal essay with a healing trajectory from wounding event to want to gift to re-gifting. Dr. Lockhart will provide prompts that will:

• Guide you to dig deep for the language of what blocks the gratitude feelings
• Inspire you to authentically bring gratitude, and strategies for personal peace and safety into the coming winter days

You do not have to be a writer to take this workshop.

All workshops will be taught from a Black feminist 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. Dr. Lockhart believes this includes sharing and listening to or consuming stories in healing reciprocity. 

Fee: $50

In this 12 week writing intensive (meets every Tuesday), participants will be guided through the process of writing the raw chapters of a full-length memoir or novel 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 

In this 12 week writing intensive (meets every Tuesday), participants will be guided through the process of writing the raw chapters of a full-length memoir or novel 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. 

***Each registrant must have taken a previous writing workshop with Dr. Lockhart as their foundation for  understanding the emotional, psychological, spiritual workings of personal plot method.***

All workshops will be taught from a Black feminist 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. Dr. Lockhart believes this includes sharing and listening to or consuming stories in healing reciprocity. 

Fee: $800 (Payment Plan Available)