Writer’s Wellness Workshop

Saturday, September 20th, 27th, and October 4th

10:00AM-12:00PM Phoenix MST
Location: Piper Writers House

What to expect at a glance:

Learn to address hindrances to writing and creativity without judgement
Gain simple mindfulness tools to support increased joy and ease in writing, even on difficult days
Learn how to use mindfulness to rediscover and support your unique voice

Course Description:

The Writer’s Wellness Workshop offers 3 mini-two-hour-retreats with different topics. Each illustrates using mindfulness to affirm creativity and provides tools to support increased joy and ease in writing, even on difficult days.

All writers at any experience level and of all genres are welcome. Both poets and prose authors will benefit from the mindfulness exercises and generative writing during each session. Sharing with a small group of peers will enhance the individual experience as well as empathy for each other’s similar challenges.

Sessions include introductions, short grounding, guided meditations and movement for all abilities, lessons on the topic, prompts to discover personal relationship to the subjects, short generative exercises, optional small support circles, group discoveries, new tools to facilitate the week’s writing, and a closing guided meditation.

About the instructor:

Jaime Glasser is an artist, veterinarian, pet hospice consultant, and certified mindfulness meditation teacher who writes. Mesa, Arizona, is home with her family of cats and dogs. She is writing a memoir with tales of her patients. Her storytelling is poignant and will make you laugh out loud.

She writes flash and short-form memoirs, is active in the Narratively community, and has two publications on Substack. Between Breaths: A Writer’s Pause is home to her personal, often amusing essays, and The Gift of Love Journals is on the less-funny topic of our pets as teachers to accept death and introducing animal hospice care. She has been writing a memoir for too long, submitting many essays, teaching mindfulness for writers, and MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction).

She graduated from high school, university, art school, veterinary school, and most recently MMTCP (Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification), an ironically intensive two-year program under Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.

Jaime is also a lifelong artist, community instigator, built giant Spirographs, and a mobile photography/digital art pioneer. She is a proud founder of the Mesa Urban Garden, the International Association of Animal Hospice and Palliative Care, the Millet House Community Art Gallery, and a recovering triathlete.

About our ticket fees:

Your ticket purchase is an investment not only in your voice, but in our literary community. The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing is dedicated to helping create a sustainable local and national literary arts community. The general rate for our PWS classes is only $25 per hour of instruction. The pay scale is designed in favor of instructors, ensuring that the majority of all ticket sales goes to them. Any additional profit allows us to offer discounts, scholarship seats, and occasionally free educational programs. To inquire about whether or not you are eligible for a discount code, please send an email to: pipercenter.info@asu.edu

Thank you for your interest in Writer’s Wellness Workshop.

Registration has closed for this event.

For information or questions,

Sasha Hawkins

Coordinator for Educational Programs

Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

Arizona State University

email: shawki31@asu.edu

web: http://piper.asu.edu 

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