Living & Loving After Loss * Journaling & Collage Workshop * Saturday, Feb. 8th 1-3pm
Living & Loving After Loss * Journaling & Collage Workshop * Saturday, Feb. 8th 1-3pm
Living & Loving After Loss * Journaling & Collage Workshop * Saturday, Feb. 8th 1-3pm
Saturday, Feb. 8th 2025
A Journaling & Collage Workshop
1-3pm EDT Via Zoom
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“Love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings...” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Join Dr. Lockhart for this creative moment where participants will be guided to use collage and journaling to remember how light and shadows, our loss and our loving are intertwined in the process of our full experience of life.
You do not have to be a writer or an artist to take this workshop.
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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.
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Fee: $50 Click Here to Register
The Money Essay * A Personal Essay Writing Workshop * Sunday, Feb. 16th 1-3pm
Living & Loving After Loss * Journaling & Collage Workshop * Saturday, Feb. 8th 1-3pm
Living & Loving After Loss * Journaling & Collage Workshop * Saturday, Feb. 8th 1-3pm
Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025
1-3pm EDT Via Zoom
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Money is not supposed to be linked to your heart chakra, but thanks to capitalism which pretends to hold your ability to be nurtured, provided for, and protected, money is intertwined with our hearts. How do you disentangle purse strings from heart strings and survive well? How did your ancestors do this? How can you heal from the difficult relationship you have with money?
Dr. Lockhart will facilitate you through this process. You will write yourself to revelations and new outcomes of your money story. We are going to write it out village style in the midst of each other's good company.
You do not have to be a writer to take this workshop.
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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.
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Fee: $50 Click Here to Register
Letters of Apology & Forgiveness Saturday, Feb. 22nd 1-3pm
Living & Loving After Loss * Journaling & Collage Workshop * Saturday, Feb. 8th 1-3pm
Letters of Apology & Forgiveness Saturday, Feb. 22nd 1-3pm
Saturday, Feb. 22nd 2025
Letters of Apology & Forgiveness
1-3pm EDT Via Zoom
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The letter to apologize and the letter to forgive, are essential to moving on in our lives after we have had new awareness with an issue. There are people in the rubble of our growth and development, and sometimes we are in the rubble of other folks’ life journeys. Acknowledging the ways in which others might have been impacted by us and acknowledging ways that we were impacted by others allows us to dissolve harbored shame, blame, and guilt so we can move on with full awareness and empathy for ourselves and others in our relationships.
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In this expressive writing workshop, participants will be guided by Dr. Lockhart to utilize memory and their internal gifts to write the letters that help complete a personal change journey.
You do not have to be a writer to take this workshop.
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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.
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Fee: $50 Click Here to Register
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 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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