Course Reviews | Life Righting Collective

COURSE:

Keystone Memoir

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PHYLLIS ORNER, Cape Town

I found Dawn Garisch's Life Writing Workshop gratifying and inspiring in so many ways. Her approach to creative writing is uniquely her own, and one that effortlessly accommodates aspiring and published writers of memoir from a wide variety of backgrounds. I appreciate the lengths to which she goes to allow cross-subsidization of participants not able to afford the fees by those who can. Dawn guides and infuses the workshop process with her vast expertise, energy, and delight. She creates a safe place for participants to explore deeply both positive and negative aspects of their life stories. I highly recommend this workshop to anyone who wants to write their life story. It will allow you to write creatively, with integrity and honesty, in an environment with like-minded people guided by an excellent mentor.

COURSE:

Keystone Memoir

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JUDY BEKKER, Cape Town

Dawn's memoir writing workshop was a finely crafted and facilitated process that encouraged and enabled us to write. My creativity was stimulated by her use of poetry and prose, her listening and sensing exercises, her considerable knowledge and experience of the act of writing, and her easy manner when it came to holding and guiding the group and the process. In short: an excellent and productive experience!

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Keystone Memoir Course

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ATHALIE CRAWFORD, Cape Town

I found Dawn Garisch’s memoir-writing course extremely useful and helpful: she provided a structure that held all of us would-be memoirists firmly to our task, while at the same time helping us to get in touch with our senses, our fears, our dreams, our stories. The image that comes to mind is of holding tight to the golden thread that will allow us to go down to the depths and emerge again, unscathed though not unchanged. The sense of community and support that is born of twenty-odd people meeting daily for four days to address themselves to such a deeply individual task was also one of the unexpected pleasures of the experience. I would heartily recommend this course.

COURSE:

Keystone Memoir

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SHARON PEDDIE, Greyton

Dawn is a wise and gently insistent guide whose vast personal experience illuminates the shared space. It was a deeply healing experience. Thank you.

COURSE:

Keystone Memoir

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HELENA KINGWILL, Cape Town

Attending the memoir course was unexpectedly empowering. It took me down into the very roots of my life experience in a safe and supportive nurturing environment."

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