The Life Righting Collective runs courses to encourage self-exploration through life writing, raises funds for course fees and brings people together to share their stories and grow community.
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Course Reviews

COURSE:
How We Respond To Art
REVIEW BY:
UCT SUMMER SCHOOL
The evaluations from your students indicate that many felt they benefitted greatly from your facilitation and encouragement to draw on their own inner resources to spark their writing, and that through this they gained knowledge about themselves and insights that were highly enriching to the writing process. They were given some methodology and tools and felt supported and enabled to be self-reliant in their work. Although this made others used to a more didactic approach insecure at first, they adapted to it and acknowledged its value.
COURSE:
Keystone Memoir Course
REVIEW BY:
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:
How We Respond To Art
REVIEW BY:
ZAMUXOLO ‘ZAMA’ NKOMPELA, Cape Town
I enjoyed all the writing exercises as they showed me I have the potential to be a writer but I LOVED the excerpt readings and the balance of energies between the facilitators the most.
COURSE:
Keystone Memoir
REVIEW BY:
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
REVIEW BY:
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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The Life Righting Collective runs courses to encourage self-exploration through life writing, raises funds for course fees and brings people together to share their stories and grow community.
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