Write Through
Learn to use your creativity as a resource to help you cope, learn and grow through a difficult time.
Are you facing a lot of challenges at the moment? Are there projects you’re keen to progress, but tapping into your creative brain is hard with so much going on? Maybe you’re eager to use your creativity as a resource to help you cope, learn and grow through a difficult time.
Write Through is a course for writers and creatives in exactly your situation. Facilitated by writer and Psychologist Dr Andrea Baldwin, Write Through is structured to help you:
Feel safe and confident exercising your creative skills
Use writing and creativity to explore, acknowledge and transform emotions
Orient yourself in the present moment, while recognising how the present relates to your past and future
Build productive writing habits even in the midst of other demands
Strengthen the connections that help you live, write and achieve balance
Write Through is not a ‘writing therapy’ program. But it is based on well-established research evidence about how our brains work under stress, and how creativity can help us thrive in challenging times.
Format
This is a hybrid workshop with a focus on craft; it will be held in-person at Queensland Writers Centre and live streamed simultaneously to an online audience. It is a level 1 course for writers of all levels.
About Andrea:
Andrea has been a Psychologist for over 30 years. She is a writer, musician and applied theatre practitioner, with PhDs in Psychology and Creative Writing and a Masters in Drama. Andrea currently works for Queensland Health, using stories and games to help families with young children grow through natural disasters and disruptive events (https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/natural-disaster-recovery/). The techniques and exercises in this course are drawn from Andrea’s lifetime of experience in arts health, as well as up-to-date research in creative recovery.