We all have unfinished business. We lie awake at night, not knowing how to proceed in a difficulty, our thoughts looping. We have done everything we can to try to resolve a seemingly insoluble problem.
Writing can be helpful, bringing new information to the surface, changing anxiety into curiosity, and providing relief and well-being. We will start by identifying core conflicts in your life. These can feel too intransigent or overwhelming to write as memoir, or you might just want to explore them using a different tool.
Giving the dilemma to fictional characters can provide the distance you need to expand and intensify the dramatic tensions, and to let the story unfold. Imagination can switch off the rational, list-making, treadmill mind, allowing what we don’t know we don’t know about the situation to emerge.
You are welcome to stay with writing memoir as a means to explore and deepen your inquiry into the themes that bind your life. Beginner writers are welcome.
R1500,00 – R3500,00
Writing can be helpful, bringing new information to the surface, changing anxiety into curiosity, and providing relief and well-being.
Dates: Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July
Times: Friday 2 - 6pm, Saturday & Sunday 9am - 2pm
Venue: Online
Facilitator: Dawn Garisch
FEE OPTIONS
Option 1 R1500
Option 2 R2500
Option 3 $3500
We use a sliding scale fee model, allowing for events to be offered at multiple price points based on your financial circumstances.
For it to work, we’re relying on principles of truthfulness and accountability.
Facilitators deserve to be paid and course participants deserve to attend personal development courses which recognise the multiple realities of economic access and privilege.
Fee option 1 is a reduced rate for those whose budget genuinely cannot accommodate option 2.
Fee option 2 represents the fair and true cost of the course.
Fee option 3 is for those who are able to pay for themselves and pay extra towards making it possible for another person to attend a LRC writing course at a nominal rate.